[TOP STORY] OBITUARY: Raymond Dokpesi, the media mogul who founded Nigeria’s first private radio station | TheCable
Author:The news of Raymond Dokpesi’s death crept upon the nation on the evening of a day Nigeria was celebrating the inauguration of a new democratic leadership. According to Tony Akiotu, group managing director of DAAR Communications, the media mogul hadhis treadmill during a routine gym exercise. The fall was worsened by an illness he had been nursing earlier, and Dokpesi died at the age of 71.
Dokpesi was born on October 25, 1951, in Ibadan, Oyo state. He was born nine years before the independence of the country whose draconian broadcast regulation he would later explore to usher in an era of relative press freedom. “He [my father’s friend] said, ‘Do you see any child of a northerner succeed, apart from the kola nut they eat, they are never-do-well. I was handicapped, and that was the toughest moment of my life. At that time, I felt highly discriminated against. I felt I was likely to be denied the opportunity to live,” Dokpesi“My mother was very helpless at that time, and here I was feeling very sick, unable to communicate freely. And my mother, too, was illiterate.
Dokpesi became a grantee of an academic scholarship sponsored by the Nigerian Port Authority and he proceeded to study marine engineering at the Wyzsza Szokta Morska Gdynia in Poland and the University of Gdansk Sopot, bagging bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees.While in Poland, he suffered another health scare, but the inspiration of his early life braced him through the storm.
Goodluck Jonathan, former president at the studio of AIT, a DAAR Communication broadcasting organisation According to Kenny Ogungbe, Dokpesi’s close associate and brother-in-law, RayPower FM, Nigeria’s first private station, went on air officially on September 1, 1994. But the station had already gone test running a few months to that time before it was scared off-line by the military government of Sani Abacha, owing to lack of licence.
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