Reuben Mouka has been appointed the Director of Public Affairs of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).
Muoka, the hitherto Director Special Duties Department, is a veteran ICT journalist and public relations practitioner.
Reuben Muoka who resumed duty on Monday, June 20, 2022, replaced Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, who has been redeployed to the special duty unit of the Commission.
Muoka, according to this report, is not new to that department. He had worked there as a principal officer for several years under Engineer Ernest Ndukwe and the late Dr. Eugene Juwah.
He was sent to the special duty and economic policy and analysis departments at some point during the first term of Professor Umar Danbatta as EVC.
He was head of media and public relations, from 2009, until 2015, when Danbatta resumed as EVC.
Before joining NCC some 19 years ago, Muoka worked with the Vanguard, where he and Okoh Aihe, who recently retired from the NCC, ran the paper Hi-Tech pages and reported ICT for several years.
He left Vanguard to work at MTS First Mobile, a pioneer company in mobile communication in Nigeria, as Corporate Affairs Manager.
Reuben Muoka has first and second degrees in Mass Communication. He was once chairman of the League of Communications Correspondence, a beat association created in 1988 to help ICT journalists become professional ICT reporters.