Profile
Omoniyi Ibietan is an experienced communication strategist, media relations expert, author, lecturer, and Secretary-General of African Public Relations Association (APRA) with decades of experience in managing external and internal stakeholders. As at 2025, Omoniyi was the Head of Media Relations at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the country's regulatory body in charge of the telecommunication sector.
Additionally, Omoniyi has vast experience in managing regulatory stakeholders, and he plays a pivotal role in overseeing regulatory relations involving Nigeria's National Assembly, ensuring alignment of objectives and obligations. These portfolio expectations also involve managing media partners and personnel for public relations efforts.
Between 2006 -2007, Omoniyi was the Special Assistant (Media) to the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Frank Nweke Jnr, a role that served as his entry point into media relations in public service.
He is a post-graduate lecturer of communication courses at Rome Business School, Nigeria Campus, and was a lecturer at both International Institute of Journalism Abuja, and The Polytechnic Ibadan at various times.
As a journalist and writer with extensive public service experience, he has vast insight and perspectives on current affairs, as well as sociopolitical discourses and themes, which inspired the richness and depth of his book titled Cyberpolitics: Social Media, Social Demography, and Voting Behaviour in Nigeria, available for purchase at Roving Heights Bookstores and on Amazon.
Work History
Rome Business School (Graduate School), Nigeria Campus
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC)
Nigerian Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) Limited
Federal Minister of Information and National Orientation (Later Information and Communications)
Association & Membership
- Fellow, Nigerian Institute of Public Relations
- Fellow, African Public Relations Association (APRA)
- African Council for Communication Education (ACCE)
- International Institute for Communications (IIC)
- Association of Communication Scholars and Professionals of Nigeria (ACSPN)
- Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ)
- Community Radio Coalition (CRC), Nigeria.
Education
- PhD in Communication | North-West University, South Africa | 2020
- Mini MBA in Telecommunication | Neotelis, Paris, France | 2022
- Human Research Ethics | Online Training and Examination for the Social Sciences and Humanities Certified | Macquarie University June 2018
- Certified Regulation Specialist | Institute for Public-Private Partnerships (IP3) USA & WEDC of Loughborough University, UK | 2014.
- M.A. Communication and Language Arts (Doctoral grade) | University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria | 2005
- B.A. Communication Arts (Second Class (Honours) Upper Division, Best Graduating Student) University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria |2000
- Diploma in Journalism (with Distinction) | International Institute of Journalism, Abuja, Nigeria |1996.
Student Leadership, Activism, and Detention
Omoniyi Ibietan was a student leader on campus, who sat at the Senate of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS). He was elected chairman of the National Convention of NANS in 2000 during the annual convention which took place at the University of Maiduguri. It was dubbed Unity Convention because it unified all hitherto warring factions of NANS. From that moment, NANS maintained a single organisational power structure.
He was expelled and suspended many times by educational authorities and, for this reason, his first degree took about 10 years to be completed, because he went to a few schools before graduating eventually from the University of Uyo. Omoniyi and his contemporaries were actively involved in the civil rights movements of the Nigerian military era, during which he suffered deprivation and irredeemable damages, including detentions. In the military regime of General Sani Abacha alone, he was arrested and detained 11 times. In one instance, he was charged to court for organising protests and demonstrations, but was never convicted.
He was intimately involved in the struggles that birthed Nigeria's current democracy. Eventually, he graduated atop his classes at Uyo and Ibadan, and made a distinction at the journalism school. Omoniyi and his colleagues won all cases in the courts, the most prominent being Niyi Ibietan and 44 others Vs. University of Abuja and 2 others.
Cyberpolitics: Social Media, Social Demography and Voting Behaviour in Nigeria
A book by Dr. Omoniyi P. Ibietan
