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Veteran broadcaster, Prince Jide Akinbiyi is dead.
As announced by his family, Jide Akinbiyi, as he was simply known all through his broadcasting career, passed on, last week, at the age of eighty-seven.
He began 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 moved to 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, also recently deceased.
As Permanent Secretary, he was among those who established both the Radio and the Television wings of the Lagos State Broadcasting Service.
In later years, he became more often referred to as Prince Jide Akinbiyi, when his father ascended the throne of the Olubadan of Ibadan.
In 2018, Prince Akinbiyi was honoured as an African Veteran Broadcaster.
The climax of his funeral activities will take place on Tuesday, next week.