Previously he worked as Public Relations and Communications Manager for the government-owned National Oil Company of Malawi.
His coverage of the 2013 cashgate scandals involving Malawian government financial irregularities and fraud were widely published.
He also hosted a television programme, The Constitution.ently He attended an Illicit Finance Journalism Program at City University London.
[3] He developed an interest in investigative journalism after attending training workshops in Malawi and South Africa.
[7] In 2018, Chikoko won Misa-Malawi's Democracy and Good Governance Journalist of the year-Print award.