David B. Lawal
Project Manager, Strategic Communications, and Consultant in Abuja, Nigeria
David B. Lawal
Project Manager, Strategic Communications, and Consultant in Abuja, Nigeria
I am a Strategic Communications professional, Project Manager and Public Speaker with over 10 years of experience across media, development communications, corporate communications and digital media.
I currently serve as Head of Communications and Social Mobilisation at Manifold Media Ltd, a Communications and Development Consulting Firm, and as Editor at African Angle, a Pan-African not-for-profit newsroom. I previously worked with the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, Sterling One Foundation, The Nation Newspaper and TELL Communications in Lagos, as well as the Centre for Communications and Social Impact in Abuja.
My work experience spans development communication, media and public relations, digital communications, storytelling and Social and Behaviour Change Communications (SBCC). I have also taught New/Digital Media at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, as well as Yoruba and English Languages at the Secondary School level.
I hold a degree in Communications from the prestigious Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), alongside professional training from Pan-Atlantic University and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. I am a certified multimedia journalist and corporate communicator.
I am an alumnus of the Deloitte-funded innovation lab, UNLEASHLAB in Copenhagen, Denmark, which focused on incubating and formulating innovative ideas to drive SDG 3 (Health). In 2015, I was nominated as one of the Nigerian Delegates to the United Nations-funded World Press Freedom Day in Riga, Latvia, where I headed the United Nations (UN) Youth Newsroom.
I hold professional certifications from the British Council in Nigeria (2017 and 2018) in Risk/Crisis Communication; UNESCO (2015); Google Africa (2015) for election coverage; and Global Editors Network (2014) on combating Ebola out of Nigeria.
I am versatile in media monitoring, strategic storytelling, documentary filming, photography, news writing, media and public relations, media buying, social and digital media consultancy, community mobilisation, media publishing, among others.
I am a member of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Journalists For Christ, African Media Agency, Africa Young Entrepreneur, and Code for Africa, among others.