He worked for the Legal Aid Council and was managing partner of the C&G Chambers, practising mainly in Lagos Nigeria.
He is publisher of the literary magazine African Writing, which he founded with Afem Akem.
His other books include African Tales at Jailpoint (1999), Diaries of a Dead African (2003)[4][5] One More Tale for the Road (2003), Memories of Stone (poetry, 2006), The Ghost of Sani Abacha (2012),[6][7] How to Spell Naija in 100 Short Stories (2013), The Final Testament of a Minor God (poetry, 2014), His novel The Extinction of Menai is due in 2015.
His short stories and poetry have been published in the London Review of Books,[8] La Internazionale, AGNI,[9] MTLS,[10] Arzenal, and Sentinel,[11] among other places.
[12] Nwokolo is a founder of the BribeCode, a nationwide campaign to eradicate corporate corruption by adopting the bill the Corporate Corruption Act, which he devised and presented to the National Assembly in 2015.