Tag: Raymond Dokpesi
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How would Dokpesi have responded to AI? – By Okoh Aihe
On a day that Dr Raymond Dokpesi should have been 73 penultimate week, he wasn’t around because he has gone on a long trip. But his friends still came in his absence to speak some kind words as befitting reminiscences for the life of a good man whose memory should be kept alive in perpetuity.
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For a broadcast czar, it’s 365 days into eternity – By Okoh Aihe
In the evening of May 29, 2023, I found myself paying tributes to Dr Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi. “They didn’t know you and they never will,” I wrote.
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With Daar Communications in Port Harcourt, history suffers jeopardy – By Okoh Aihe
News coming out of Port Harcourt concerning the decommissioning of Daar Communications broadcast facilities is not good at all, especially following the recent apotheosis of founder and Chairman Emeritus, High Chief Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi.
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Dokpesi: A broadcast exponent stages a final show – By Okoh Aihe
Today, Dr Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi will return to Agenebode with his friends. The big boys who have been with him most of his life, the crème de la crème of the society with the incandescent stars, the ordinary folks of the society for whom he had so much love, having struggled up from extreme poverty…
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Dokpesi: The big Masquerade leaves the stage – By Okhiria Agbonsuremi
My first encounter with Chief Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi was in 1994 when he graciously gave me an opportunity to move over to his new radio station, Raypower FM, Lagos, as a Stringer, following the closure of Rutam House and the proscription of The Guardian Newspapers Group, where I worked as a reporter.
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Raymond Dokpesi’s family releases burial plan
The family of late Raymond Dokpesi has announced that the Founder of DAAR Communications, would be buried on 22nd June, 2023 at his residence in Agenebode, Edo State.
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Ambassador Wisdom extols late media Icon, Raymond Dokpesi
A Nigerian diplomat and former Nigeria’s Principal Representative to the Economic Community of West African States, (ECOWAS) Ambassador Aminu Wisdom has said that he was shocked upon hearing the news of the death of Raymond Dokpesi, the founder of DAAR Communications owner of AIT and Raypower radio across the country.
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High Chief Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi – The Great Pioneer is Gone
It was with great shock that we learnt on Monday, May 29, 2023, of the passage of High Chief Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi, OFR, founding Chairman of the media behemoth, Daar Communications Plc . He was 71. Chief Dokpesi, a trained Marine Engineer and politician, pioneered private radio and television broadcating in the country with the…
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Atiku, PDP mourn Raymond Dokpesi
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has expressed shock at the passing of the founder of Africa Independent Television (AIT), High Chief Raymond Dokpesi.
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Controversy surrounds alleged arrest of Dokpesi at UK airport
Controversy has surrounded the alleged arrest of the founder of DAAR Communications Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, who was delayed by the Met Police at Heathrow Airport on Sunday for a few hours. Dokpesi had arrived via Frankfurt from Abuja on a Lufthansa airlines flight but was invited off the plane before other passengers disembarked. Confirming…