About Me

Ejiro Umukoro “Lady E” is a Broadcast and Communications Specialist with strong passion for Investigative Journalism. 

She’s also a Content Expert, Recruiter, Media Trainer, Administrator, Researcher, Career Development Specialist, Woman Advocate, Public Speaker, Writer, Teens and Youth Ambassador.

She has been a pioneer voice, manager, and content creator for a number of radio stations in Nigeria starting from her bushy tail days in Voice of Nigeria in the North-East Zone to Radio Nigeria and other commercial radio and TV stations across Nigeria: CTL TV, NTA, Rhythm 93.7, HOT FM, Trend FM, and now General Manager and Head of Station Mega 89.1 FM, Warri where she was involved in pioneering its broadcast installation oversight and setting up of the station from scratch.

She’s a media trainer and Director of Courses at Lady E Language Clinic (LELC), a media education outfit that caters to the needs of young, aspiring, mid-level and professionals in core fields of communication: Public Speaking, Creative Writing, Journalism, Radio Business, Broadcasting, Career Development, Mentoring and content development.

Code for Africa named her Most Valuable Person (MVP) for her undercover investigations into The Rise of Female Cult-Gangs in Secondary Schools in Delta State, which garnered over 20,000 impressions after it broke and still counting. The impact of the story caused the Delta State Government and St. Patrick’s Church to take action.

Lady E has been featured on BBC London (Have Your Say Africa), Punch Newspaper, British Council Website, Nigeria Info Lagos, Xcel Magazine, City People Magazine, NTA International, TVC, Channels Television, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Pointer Newspaper, and other online portals. Her investigative story has been published by News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Vanguard, Pointer Newspaper, Bridge Radio, Nigeria Info, and several online news outlets.

In 2009 she represented Nigeria as Regional Winner IYXE (International Young Communications Entrepreneur Awards) at the Global Awards put together by the British Council in London. She’s also a recipient of the Female Reporters Leadership Award Fellow of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, a Multi-Award Winning Broadcaster, Journalist and Mentor.

She is currently working on a crime investigative novel she hopes to debut in the last quarter of 2019.