Taiwo Olubowale Allimi (born December 17, 1944, in

Sagamu Sagamu or Ishagamu is an agglomeration of thirteen towns in southwestern Nigeria. It is located in Ogun State along the Ibu River and Eruwuru Stream between Lagos and Ibadan. It was founded in the mid 19th century by members of the Remo bra ...

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) is a

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and

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Early life and education

Allimi was born on December 17, 1944, in

Career

He was

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

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

television stations in Nigeria Television (TV) is a telecommunications, telecommunication media (communication), medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of signal transmission, ...

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

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, Nigeria – 1986-1991. Former vice president,

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(CBA),

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– 2004. Founding member, global media aids initiative with

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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 u ...

/ 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”,

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

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, 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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