About Ojeikere Aikhoje, NIPR







Aikhoje is a consummate public relations practitioner, who has spent most of his time working on Events for Sports Brands (Coca-Cola, MTN, Globacom, Obudu Mountain Race, former SWAN Awards) and also works as a blogger.

Aikhoje specialises in marrying consumer brands with popular and contemporary culture.

He founded Sports Brands Nigeria Awards (Nigeria's Premier Sports Industry Awards) in 2012 to celebrate outstanding brands in Nigeria's fast evolving Sports Industry.

Organised in July 2012, the SBNA has since become the No. 1 Awards for Sports Brands.





Complete Sports Publisher, Dr. Sunny Obazu-Ojeagbase and his wife, Pastor Esther Ojeagbase receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the SBNA. First right is 1997 African Footballer of the Year, Victor Ikpeba.



In the same year, Aikhoje founded League Bloggers Awards (Nigeria's First Independent League Awards) to honour the best players and managers in the Nigeria Premier League.




The LBA: Nigeria's Foremost League Award Brand

From January 2012 through August, the LBA celebrated its monthly Player and Manager of the Month Awards.

Aikhoje has been an avid researcher of the Nigerian League since 1986 and writes the best features on the NPL.

You can read his articles at supersport.com and his blog at ojeksaikhoje.blogspot.com to get more insights on PR, Events, Hypes and News amongst others.

He is a regular pundit on SuperSport's programme on the Nigeria Premier League (Naija Made) on Thursdays (SS 9, 7.30pm Local Time, 6.30pm GMT).

Aikhoje also functions as Pitch side Presenter for SuperSport during league matches.

A social media and web management expert, Aikhoje is the first Nigerian journalist to manage websites for professional footballers and coaches.

His clients includes Joetex Frimpong, Jude Aneke, who is the first footballer to score 20 goals in one season, Brendan Ogbu and Chippa United George Akpabio.

Lobi Stars revelation, Stephen Eze, has just joined his stable.

At different times, he worked for Brila Sports, The PUNCH Newspaper and ghanaweb.com.

He is Publisher of Sports Brands Network (SBN), a publication that covers Sports Events.

Aikhoje speaks French and is a member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR).

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