After graduating Okwu moved to New York to accept a paid internship on the CBS news magazine "West 57th". He was later hired by CNN where he worked as a production assistant, assignment editor, and field producer before becoming a correspondent and anchor. In 1998, he was assigned to work on CNN NewsStand, the network's prime time news magazine. He also hosted the entertainment unit's Showbiz Today reports, interviewing and profiling artists and celebrities, and later served as an anchor for Diplomatic License, a weekly world affairs program centered on the United Nations. He has been cited for his live reports from Ground Zero following the attacks on &lt;a href="September%2011%20attacks"&gt;9/11&lt;/a&gt;, and his U-N coverage preceding the second Iraq war.