Dokpesi pioneered digital, 24 hours broadcasting in Nigeria, says Bayero Agabi

One of Africa’s leading ICT broadcasters, Dr. Bayero Agabi, has said Chief Raymond Dokpesi, founder of Africa Independent Television (AIT) and Raypower FM, charted the way to digital and 24 hours broadcasting in Nigeria.

Dr. Agabi who stated this at a lecture to honour Dokpesi at 70, described him as a serial innovator, whose impact is still being felt positively in both the media and the technology ecosystem.

He said, for instance Dokpesi was a pioneer member of the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), where he was a major Internet Service Provider leveraging his company called DaarNet.

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“Dokpesi started and encouraged the first ICT and tech show in Nigeria, a programme that has long become Africa’s leading tech show with well over 100 awards and the only one to have won the prestigious UNECA award twice for balanced report and research.

“Infact writing the history of broadcasting, media and tech in Nigerian will not be complete without Raymond Dokpesi name mentioned,” Dr. Bayero said at the lecture themed ‘Technology a missing link to Africa’s development.’

Engr. Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi is a fellow of the Nigeria Society of Engineers and also played a role at the last national conference, especially on the tech committee. The event was attended and chaired by the former Vice President of Nigeria Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, Senators from National Assembly and dignitaries from both the public and private sectors of the Nigerian economy.