In 2017, Oduah relocated to Dakar, Senegal. She made her Al Jazeera onscreen debut when Al Jazeera broadcast a documentary in November 2015 about breast cancer that Chika reported alongside Ghanaian undercover investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas. Since 2012, Oduah has covered the ongoing Islamist insurgency of Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria. Her reporting highlights the plight of women and children with exclusive coverage on orphans, mediation talks, escapees and wives of jihadists In 2017, she launched Biafran War Memories, a digital archive which seeks to preserve the history and first-hand accounts of the Nigerian-Biafran War.