Utibe Ukim

Utibe Ukim

JournalistWriter EditorDesigner Publications Manager

I write, edit, design, and manage print and digital publications — newsletters, magazines, books, and keepsakes. For more than 25 years.

See the work utibe@utibeukim.com
Utibe Ukim, hand to his chin, in a black shirt and dark-framed glasses.
22+
Custom titles written and edited across banking, telecom, and energy
100K
Copies per quarter — Airtel’s Share Our World, Nigeria’s largest print run
43M
Customers reached via FirstBank’s Switch magazine
#1
Rated radio station, three consecutive years — XL106.9FM

What I do

Four ways I bring value to your business.

  • Editorial & Journalism

    Short and long form writing, investigative journalism, copyediting, proofreading, speechwriting, ghostwriting

  • Newsletter & Growth

    Editorial calendar management, audience engagement, content formats and hooks

  • Content Strategy

    Brand storytelling, corporate communications, contributor management

  • Production & Design

    Graphic design, publication management

About

I started out in the newsroom and never really left.

Practising since
1988
WorkStation founded
2000
XL106.9FM founded
2019
Sectors served
Financial services, telecom, energy, public sector

I started out as a journalist writing for Newswatch, Nigeria’s leading newsmagazine, and the Arizona Daily Star, a newspaper in Tucson, U.S., during an international media exchange program. Along the way, I picked up some graphic design skills.

I have managed customer and stakeholder communications for a Nigerian airline, and edited its widely-read inflight magazine. WorkStation, the boutique editorial agency I founded in 2000, has served clients across financial services, telecom, energy, and the public sector.

My experience can help you win customers, engage stakeholders, document your journey and milestones, and turn complex issues into plain language for broad audiences.

Selected work

Magazines, newsletters, books, keepsakes and tearsheets.

  • Cover of Switch magazine, Quarter 1 2026, headline “Your dream home, the MREIF way”. Periodical · 43m customers Switch Online customer magazine of FirstBank Group
  • Cover of Oyster No. 1, 2026, an athlete at the Niger Delta Games under the headline “NDDC at 25: Eyes on Gold”. Periodical · 10,000 per quarter Oyster Stakeholder magazine of the Niger Delta Development Commission
  • Hardback copy of Financial Services In the Age of Innovation standing on a table. Writing · Book Financial Services in the Age of Innovation Thoughts and writings of Dr. Adesola Adeduntan
  • Books from the NDDC programme stacked upright, Rethinking the Niger Delta at the front. Editing · Two books The NDDC book programme From Vision to Reality: How NDDC is Transforming the Niger Delta Rethinking the Niger Delta: Thoughts and writings of Dr. Samuel Ogbuku
  • FirstBank keepsake box titled Building Lasting Legacies, The Marina Voyage, with an illustrated portrait of Dr. Adesola Adeduntan. Production & design · Keepsake Building Lasting Legacies The Marina Voyage — a keepsake for Dr. Adesola Adeduntan, FirstBank
  • Typescript of the article Larson Co. CEO named top exporter, by Utibe Ukim, for Arizona Daily Star, May 1994. Writing · 19 May 1994 Larson Co. CEO named top exporter Arizona Daily Star — World Trade Week also honors Kolbe
  • The Money section of the Arizona Daily Star, Thursday May 12 1994, carrying Utibe Ukim’s byline. Writing · 12 May 1994 Visit to Hungary by 2 Tucsonans results in business partnerships Arizona Daily Star, Money — filed during an international media exchange program
  • Typescript of the article Continental to begin new Orange County service, by Utibe Ukim, for Arizona Daily Star, 17 May 1994. Writing · 17 May 1994 Continental to begin new Orange County service Start-up of 4 daily flights is a gamble, some say

Index of selected works

Twenty-two work samples, on the record.

Showing all 22 works

  1. 01 Wrinkled Face of Money Newswatch · 4 October 1993 Writing
  2. 02 Babangida’s Last Days Newswatch · 20 September 1993 Writing
  3. 03 Continental to begin new Orange County service Arizona Daily Star · 17 May 1994 Writing
  4. 04 Larson Co. CEO named top exporter Arizona Daily Star · 19 May 1994 Writing
  5. 05 One year without Coca-Cola Essay · Medium Writing
  6. 06 Nyaknno Abasi Osso: The search engine before Google Essay · The Nation Writing
  7. 07 Financial Services in the Age of Innovation Thoughts and writings of Dr. Adesola Adeduntan Writing
  8. 08 Rethinking the Niger Delta Thoughts and writings of Dr. Samuel Ogbuku Editing
  9. 09 From Vision to Reality How NDDC is Transforming the Niger Delta Editing
  10. 10 Strategies and Imperatives for Developing the Niger Delta Samuel Ogbuku, Henry Alaphiki, and others Writing
  11. 11 Sowing For Tomorrow The autobiography of Sir G.S. Ekere Ghostwriting
  12. 12 The Path Unusual The story of Michael Bless Olomu, by Oyintonyo Michael Olomu Editing
  13. 13 Road Legacies Governor Udom Emmanuel’s roads and infrastructure record, Akwa Ibom State Corporate history
  14. 14 He Left A Legacy The eight-year road revolution of Chief (Dr) Godswill Obot Akpabio Corporate history
  15. 15 A Combatant at War Utibe Ukim, Emmanuel Ukpong, Adeola Fadairo Writing
  16. 16 The GOAL Document The legacies of Godswill Obot Akpabio in Akwa Ibom State Corporate history
  17. 17 From Vision to Reality — Visual Edition NDDC’s transformation of the Niger Delta, in pictures Corporate history
  18. 18 Share Our World Airtel Nigeria’s quarterly lifestyle magazine Periodical · 100,000 per quarter
  19. 19 Switch Online customer magazine, FirstBank Group Periodical · 43m customers
  20. 20 The FirstBanker Staff magazine, FirstBank Group Periodical · 16,000 staff
  21. 21 Y’ello Print and online magazine, MTN Nigeria Periodical · 10,000 per run
  22. 22 Oyster Quarterly print magazine, Niger Delta Development Commission Periodical · 10,000 per quarter

Also on record

Contact

Let’s get itright.

Whatever the project — a newsletter that needs a voice, a story worth telling, a publication built from the ground up, or a multimedia campaign that needs to land — I’d love to help you get it right. I want to put my experience to work for you.