Onyeka Onwenu in her younger days in NTA

Onyeka Onwenu

Onyeka Onwenu; legend of Nigeria’s music industry and multiple award-winning songstress, fondly called the Elegant Stallion. Onyeka was known also to a generation of Nigerians as a…

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rehearsal at WNTV

Television

Television in Nigeria was anticipated by Adekanbi, editor of Eko Akete in a 1924 publication when, in reaction to Colonel Malone, chairman of the Radio Association’s prediction of the emergence…

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Jimi Solanke

Jimi Solanke

Jimi Solanke; Children’s storyteller, also an acclaimed actor, teacher, and poet . Born July, 1942, the versatile artist with a warm personality also veered into such business as owning a…

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Godfrey Chukunweke

Odu Godfrey Chukunweke; Nigerian journalist with the Nigeria Television Authority, NTA. Born in 1946, Odu Godfrey was a native of Ezi, Aniocha Local Government, Delta State. He graduated from the…

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Dolapo Oni

Dolapo Oni

Dolapo Oni; Also, Marcy Dolapo Oni. Television presenter in Nigeria. In 2015, Dolapo Oni launched her own TV show, The Marcy Project on DSTV’s Africa Magic, a lifestyle and entertainment…

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Charly Boy Oputa

Charles Oputa

Charles Oputa; Nigerian eccentric entertainer, often appearing with a scarf tied round his neck, nose and eyelids pierced and fixed with big earrings. Oputa, the first son of Chukwudifu Oputa,…

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Onyia Zeal

ONYIA Zeal

Onyia Zeal; famous trumpeter with records of spectacular performances. Zeal fine-tuned his budding skills under the tutelage of Bobby Benson of Nigeria and Emmanuel Tetteh Mensah of Ghana. After…

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Dokpesi Raymond

Dokpesi Raymond

Dokpesi Raymond Aleogho; Nigerian media entrepreneur who in the early 1990s harnessed the liberalisation of the Nigerian broadcasting industry which allowed private ownership of radio and…

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Abike Dabiri

Abike Dabiri-Erewa

Dabiri-Erewa Abike; Member, Nigerian House of Representatives of the 4th to the 6th Assembly and at different times, Chairman of the House Committees on Diaspora Affairs and Media and Publicity…

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Ayorinde Aina

Ayorinde Aina; Nigerian scriptwriter, Ayorinde began writing for the Nigerian Television Authority in the late 1970’s while still in school. When he finished in 1984, he was contracted by…

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