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Cleopatra Tawo, known more commonly as Cleo Tao (died 1 December 2017) was a radio host at Planet FM 101.1 in
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,
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. She was the host of the radio shows ''DayBreak on Planet'' and ''AutoMania''. Before joining Planet FM, Tawo worked at Rhythm FM 93.7 in
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,
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, where she hosted shows such as ''Morning Drive'', ''Afternoon Drive'', ''Sunday at the Rhythm'' and ''Midnight Caller''.


Early life

Tawo was raised in
Port Harcourt Port Harcourt (Pidgin: ''Po-ta-kot or Pi-ta-kwa)'' is the capital and largest city of Rivers State in Nigeria. It is the fifth most populous city in Nigeria after Lagos, Kano, Ibadan and Benin. It lies along the Bonny River and is locate ...
, the capital of
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, Nigeria. She grew up in a
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family originally from Boki, though her parents were enlightened liberals who encouraged entertainment in their home.


Career

Tawo was trained as a lawyer before venturing into
radio broadcasting Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio signal, audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a lan ...
in 2000. Her first professional employment as a radio host was at Silverbird's Rhythm FM 93.7 in Port Harcourt. There, she hosted several shows including ''Morning Drive'', ''Afternoon Drive'', ''Sunday at the Rhythm'' and ''Midnight Caller''. She was later employed at Planet FM 101.1 Uyo, where she hosted shows like ''Daybreak on Planet'' and ''AutoMania''. Tawo was also the station's Head Of Programmes.


Legal issues

On 19 December 2005, she was arrested along with colleague Klem Ofuokwu by agents of the State Security Service (SSS). They were charged with airing fabricated news about a bridge failure on Rhythm 93.7 FM Port Harcourt. Rivers State Attorney General Henry Ajumogobia withdrew the charges on 2 February 2006. They had been detained for two weeks before being released on bail.


Death

During late November 2017, Tawo began suffering from a
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and was admitted to a hospital. On 1 December 2017, she died at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital. Tawo was admitted to UUTH's emergency
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. Prior to her death, she had posted a status update on her facebook account that " hehad a respiratory challenge, I’m responding to treatment. I’ll be out soon. Thnx for your kind prayers".


See also

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References

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