Before joining the Department of Public Information (Africa Section) at the UNHQ, Kingsley ighobor was Head of Community Relations at the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) where he led many national communications campaigns on important social issues. Before then, he worked as a journalist and reported extensively the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia for a Nigerian publication, the African Concord newsmagazine. In 1992, he co-founded the Concord Times newspaper in Sierra Leone, becoming the publication's pioneer editor.