In Nigerian broadcasting, some names echo. Others endure. Anthony Anegbe Akiotu does each.
Because the chairmanship election of the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) approaches, the competition is shaping up as greater than a routine energy shift.
It’s a defining second for an business at a crossroads and on the centre of it stands a person whose life has been lived in sign energy and sound waves.
Anthony Anegbe Akiotu, is not only a broadcaster. He lives broadcasting.
A a number of Nationwide Award–profitable journalist, consummate skilled, Akiotu has spent almost 5 a long time opening doorways, on air and off it, for numerous abilities inside Nigeria and throughout the continent.
From his humble and steadfast starting within the newsroom of Radio Nigeria to the boardroom of Daar Communications PLC, from coverage tables to manufacturing flooring, his fingerprints are all over the place broadcasting issues.
As soon as the Group Managing Director of DAAR Group, Akiotu now serves as Chairman of M4STV, carrying with him institutional reminiscence, international publicity and a popularity constructed on mentorship, self-discipline and imaginative and prescient.
He’s the form of chief who didn’t merely climb the ladder however strengthened it so others may comply with.
LEGACY NOW MEETS OPPORTUNITY
With outgoing BON Chairman, DG NTA Salihu Abdullahi Dembos, finishing his two-year tenure, secured by way of the public-sector rotation, the baton is ready to cross to the personal sector, in keeping with BON custom.
And Akiotu, at the moment the Deputy Chairman, stands firmly in pole place.
Opposing him is Raymond Dokpesi Jr., the present head of DAAR Communications.
In an intriguing twist, each contenders are linked not simply by business historical past, however by roots in Agenebode, Edo State, South-South, Nigeria.
Whereas Dokpesi Jr. stepped into management following his father’s dying over two years in the past, Akiotu’s journey spans generations, earned by way of time, examined by change, and refined by outcomes.
Inside broadcasting circles, the distinction is obvious. One represents inherited stewardship nonetheless discovering its full stride.
The opposite embodies lived expertise—virtually fifty years of navigating know-how shifts, regulatory battles, content material revolutions and human capital growth.
Analysts are already tipping Akiotu as their favorite. Not as a result of the competition lacks competitors, Dokpesi Jr. is anticipated to push exhausting however as a result of credibility in broadcasting is cumulative. And Akiotu’s report is solely overwhelming.
He has educated voices, formed insurance policies, stabilized establishments and projected Nigerian broadcasting past its borders.
He was there when the lights went off and when the business needed to reinvent itself to show them again on.
In the meantime, Yusuf Isah, Basic Supervisor of Yobe Broadcasting Company, is ready to imagine the Vice Chairman position unopposed, including calm certainty to an in any other case high-stakes election.
