{"id":61914,"date":"2025-02-28T23:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T23:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61914"},"modified":"2025-03-01T03:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T03:33:21","slug":"anike-agbaje-williams-first-face-on-nigerian-tv-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/28\/anike-agbaje-williams-first-face-on-nigerian-tv-dies-at-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Anike Agbaje-Williams, First Face on Nigerian TV, Dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anike Agbaje-Williams, Nigeria\u2019s pioneering female broadcaster and the first face on African television, has passed away at the age of 88.<\/p>\n<p>She died peacefully on Thursday in Ibadan, Oyo State, where she spent most of her life.<\/p>\n<p>Agbaje-Williams made history on October 31, 1959, when she appeared on the inaugural broadcast of Western Nigerian Television (WNTV), Africa\u2019s first TV station\u2014now the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA).<\/p>\n<p>She was also the first voice on Western Nigerian Broadcasting Service (WNBS), earning the title \u201cDouble-First\u201d for her trailblazing contributions to media.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on behalf of the family, Banji Sokoya described her passing as a great loss, noting that she was not only an icon but also a beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe lived a remarkable life, inspiring generations of broadcasters and media professionals,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The family has requested privacy as they mourn, with funeral arrangements to be announced later.<\/p>\n<p>Agbaje-Williams\u2019 legacy as a broadcasting pioneer continues to shape Nigeria\u2019s media landscape, cementing her place in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0 Anike Agbaje-Williams, Nigeria\u2019s pioneering female broadcaster and the first face on African television, has passed away at the age of 88. She died peacefully on Thursday in Ibadan, Oyo State, where she spent most of her life. Agbaje-Williams made history on October 31, 1959, when she appeared on the inaugural broadcast of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61916,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61914\/revisions\/61916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}