Taiwo Olubowale Allimi (born December 17, 1944 in

Sagamu Sagamu or Ishagamu is a conglomeration of thirteen towns located in Ogun State along the Ibu River and Eruwuru Stream between Lagos State, Lagos and Ibadan, founded in the mid 19th century by members of the Remo branch of the Yoruba people in ...

Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...

), is a

Nigerian Nigerians or the Nigerian people are citizens of Nigeria or people with ancestry from Nigeria. The name Nigeria was taken from the Niger River running through the country. This name was allegedly coined in the late 19th century by British jour ...

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

and

media executive A media proprietor, media mogul or media tycoon refers to a entrepreneur who controls, through personal ownership or via a dominant position in any media-related company or enterprise, media consumed by many individuals. Those with significant co ...

Early life and education

Allimi was born on December 17, 1944 in

Career

He was

director-general A director general or director-general (plural: ''directors general'', ''directors-general'', ''director generals'' or ''director-generals'' ) or general director is a senior executive officer, often the chief executive officer, within a government ...

Voice of Nigeria The Voice of Nigeria or VON is the official international broadcasting station of Nigeria. History Founded in 1961, the Voice of Nigeria began life as the External Service of the then Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (now Federal Radio Corpora ...

from 1999 to 2004, the chairman of Nigeria’s 2003, 2007 & 2007 presidential election debates on radio, television and satellites

Abuja Abuja () is the capital and eighth most populous city of Nigeria. Situated at the centre of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), it is a planned city built mainly in the 1980s based on a master plan by International Plann ...

. Former chairman of the Broadcasting Organizations of Nigeria (BON), the umbrella association for all radio and

television stations in Nigeria Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, e ...

both public and privately owned stations, 1999-2004. Nigeria’s longest serving state commissioner of information, social welfare, youth, sports and culture,

Ogun state Ogun State is a state in southwestern Nigeria. Created on 3 February 1976 from the former Western State. Ogun State borders Lagos State to the south, Oyo State and Osun State to the north, Ondo State to the east, and the Republic of Benin to the ...

, Nigeria – 1986-1991. Former vice president,

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(CBA),

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– 2004. Founding member, global media aids initiative with

Kofi Annan Kofi Atta Annan (; 8 April 193818 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founder ...

as chairman, UN New York, January 2004. He was author and initiator of the village-square-meeting concept for bottom-up approach and participatory governance towards sustainable human development in Nigeria, 1986. Founder and principal author of Nigeria’s model TV networks-

Lagos television Lagos Television (abbreviated LTV), or Lagos Weekend Television (abbreviated LWT, UHF channel 35, also known as LTV 8) It is a state owned television station in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. Lagos State Television was established In October, 1980 un ...

/ Lagos weekend television, 1980-85. State delegate, Nigeria’s national political reform conference – 2005 – towards a new constitution for Nigeria. coordinator, Ogun State elders’ consultative forum, a non-partisan advisory group offering insight, guidance and direction on the weighty issues of contemporary governance in Ogun state, south west Nigeria – 2005 to date. other states and Africa (with dr. nelson Mandela) have copied the Ogun state model. He was the leading advocate for the establishment of indigenous community broadcasting system as the third-tier of broadcasting in Nigeria since 1992. He was the initiator, host and producer of ''Vote ‘83'', the most celebrated TV elections coverage in Nigeria, 1983. Initiator, host and producer of ''Elections ‘79'', Nigeria’s first television elections coverage on Nigerian television authority – NTA channel 10, Lagos, 1979. Chairman, plenary session,

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conference on “Putting development at the heart of broadcasting”,

Addis Ababa Addis Ababa (; am, አዲስ አበባ, , new flower ; also known as , lit. "natural spring" in Oromo), is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It is also served as major administrative center of the Oromia Region. In the 2007 census, t ...

, April 2003. He was a speaker on “Broadcasting and HIV/AIDS” at the World Electronic Media Forum,

Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaki ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

, 8–12 December 2003. First Nigerian TV journalist to introduce editorial opinion series ''Issues of our Time'' on Nigerian television, 1982. Initiator, host and producer of ''Lagos Report Nigeria’s award-winning television weeknight investigative series, on Nigerian television in 1977. Author of ''Without Time: Memoirs of a Journalist in Public Service'', published in April 1999. Aremo Taiwo Allimi principal consultant of Talim Associates Nigeria limited, a firm of media, research, broadcasting and communications development consultants, founded in 1986.

References

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