Ace broadcaster, Prince Jide Akinbiyi is dead.
As revealed by his family, Jide Akinbiyi, as he was known all through his broadcasting career, passed on, last week, at the age of eighty-seven.
He started the profession at the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service, WNBS, Ibadan, in the 1950s, and was among the pioneers when WNTV was opened as “First-In-Africa, in 1959.
He sto the Federal Broadcasting operations, in Lagos, also as a first-generation staff of the television wing of the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, NBC-TV, which became the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, in 1977.
Jide Akinbiyi later moved to the Lagos State Government, under its first Civilian Governor, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, who recently died.
As acting Secretary, he was among those who established both the Radio and the Television wings of the Lagos State Broadcasting Service.
