KMOV Reporter Mugo Odigwe has left the building and is looking for her next adventure in TV news. 

“We wanted her to stay, but she decided she wanted to move on,” KMOV News Director Scott Diener said.  “That was certainly her choice. We miss her.”

The Belleville News Democrat says that born in Nigeria, Odigwe came to the United States when she was 12 and graduated top of her class from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Arizona State, minoring in English with a heavy concentration in literature. 

After serving as a reporter/producer intern at two Phoenix stations, she spent more than two years at KGAN/KFXA in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, before landing at KMOV in November 2015. But last fall, Odigwe told the station it was time for something new.

“She told us she didn’t exactly know what was next for her, but she did let us know she wanted to take some time off to travel abroad and enjoy life,” Diener wrote in a memo to the staff. “Who can blame her? Mugo has been a team player as both a reporter and anchor, working early hours and many weekends, even navigating the streets of Eureka in a boat. No assignment scared off Mugo at News4. She did terrific work for us, and we are sorry to see her go.”

At the moment, she is visiting family in California and contemplating her next move, according to Liz Hart, her agent and vice president of digital news and programming at NWT Group in Bryan, Texas.