Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi.

25th October 1951 – 29th May 2023

A Broadcasting Pioneer

ENGR. RAYMOND ANTHONY ALEOGHO DOKPESI - Ph.D. FCIT, FCITA (UK), FNSE, D.Sc, OFR

A Marine Transport Engineer was born in Ibadan, Oyo State on the 25th of October 1951. He hails from Agenebode in Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria.

 

He attended Ebenezer Church School, Ekotedo, Loyola College, Ibadan, all in Oyo State and Immaculate Conception College, Benin City, Edo State. He worked briefly with the Nigerian Ports Authority as Marine Office Cadet in 1969 before proceeding to Poland for further studies between 1970 to 1977. He attended Wyzsza Szkota Morska Gdynia and University of Gdansk Sopot for his Bachelor, Masters and Doctorate Degrees.

Tributes

Perm Sec, FCT

 I want to use you as contact to commiserate with the entire AIT/RAY Power family on the demise of your Chairman and Founder. May God console and comfort you all. Olusola Asesola

Air commodore Joel Abioye

Please accept my sincere condolence on the demise of the AIT business mogul and a great philanthropist. Indeed, he has left his footprints on the sands of time. May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace.

Amaechi Mourns

High Chief Raymond Dokpesi gave so many young people the platform to rise in the journalism profession. He made a lot of stars, and impacted humanity in his own way. May God be merciful to him, and grant him a special place in heaven. Amen

What a loss! I was very close to High Chief Raymond Dokpesi.

A powerful torchlight has gone off, rather untimely, after lightening up our world and illuminating the way for many people for many years

We have received with shock the unfortunate and painful Passing of Media magnate and founder of DAAR Communications Plc, HIGH CHIEF RAYMOND ALEOGHO DOKPESI.

LETTER OF CONDOLENCES IN HONOUR OF A MENTOR, DADDY AND LEGEND, HIGH CHIEF RAYMOND ALEOGHO DOKPESI, PhD

Please accept my sincere condolence on the demise of the AIT business mogul and a great philanthropist. Indeed, he has left his footprints on the sands of time. May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace.

Air commodore Joel Abioye

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He graduated with a First Class Degree, had Distinction in his Masters Degree and was also the Best graduating student in Marine Transport Engineering in fifty years in the history of tertiary education in Poland.

 

After graduating with such an exceptional academic performance, Dokpesi was engaged as an Assistant Lecturer in Marine Transport Economics from 1975 to 1977 before returning to Nigeria on the invitation of the then Nigerian Head of State (Gen Olusegun Obasanjo) who was on a State visit to Poland. Ironically, Dokpesi was part of the Polish Government delegation that received the Nigerian Head of State and his entourage.