High Chief Raymond Anthony Aleogho Dokpesi, founder of DAAR Communications is dead.
There are two unconfirmed stories as to what caused his death. While a family source confided that he died of stroke which he suffered immediately after the recent Feast of Ramadan, another said he slumped Monday afternoon while exercising in his gym at home and passed on.
It was gathered that the 75-Year old Edo State born Media died Monday, 29th May, 2023, at his residence in Abuja, the nation’s Capital.
DAAR Communications which comprises African Independent Television, AIT, Raypower and Faaji FM has remained one of the leading media outfits in Nigeria.
The late Dokpesi was born on 25th October 1951 in Ibadan, Oyo State.
He was a Nigerian media entrepreneur. His parents are from Agenebode, Edo state.
He entered the Nigerian mass media industry with his company DAAR Communications and set-up the Nigerian TV network Africa Independent Television (AIT).
He was the Organising Committee Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, National Conference in 2015.
In May 2020, Dokpesi became a COVID-19 survivor.