Larry Izamoje’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Larry Izamoje (born 24 February 1962) pioneered Sports activities Radio in Nigeria and all the Africa when he based Sports activities Radio 88.9 Brila FM in Lagos, Nigeria, in 2002. Born in Onitsha, Nigeria, he’s the fourth little one in a household of 9. He’s married with three youngsters.

 

Youth

Izamoje attended the Institute of Persevering with Schooling, Warri earlier than attending the College of Lagos from 1981 to 1984 graduating with a Bachelor of Science (second Class Higher Honours) diploma in Sociology. He did his Nationwide Youth Service Corps (NYSC) service in Kano State and was a recipient of the Kano State NYSC award for excellence. He was a member of the editorial board of the Kano State NYSC Publication throughout his 1984/85 service yr.

Izamoje returned to high school to obtain a Grasp of Science diploma in Sociology in 1986 from the College of Lagos and received a doctorate diploma in 2012 from the Enterprise College,Lausanne,Switzerland.

Early profession

On returning to the College of Lagos in 1985 for his grasp’s diploma, Izamoje labored as a contract reporter beneath Ernest Okonkwo on the Federal Radio Company of Nigeria (FRCN). From 1986 to 1990, Izamoje was within the make use of of Harmony Press, serving as a sprorts reporter, promotions government, and Deputy sports activities editor. He joined the now defunct Mail newspaper as sports activities editor in late 1990 and labored briefly at DBN-TV Lagos earlier than establishing Brila Sports activities, an unbiased manufacturing and sports activities consultancy firm, with a second hand desk and chair and a second hand typewriter, in 1992.

Brila FM

Izamoje based Sports activities Radio 88.9 Brila FM and has been the chairman and CEO, Nigeria and Africa’s first sports activities radio station, went on the air in 2002. Izamoje opened his second station at Mpape Hill Abuja in January 2007. In 2011, Larry Izamoje hit one other milestone when Sports activities Radio 88.9 Brila FM opened its Kaduna and Onitsha stations because it continues its fast enlargement programme.

Awards and organisations

In 2007, Izamoje was honoured by the College of Lagos Alumni Affiliation for his contributions to the Nigerian society by means of sports activities journalism.

Izamoje gained the NYSC Benefit Award for Kano State in 1985, Sportswriter of the Yr award (1995) from the Sports activities Writers Affiliation of Nigeria (SWAN), the NUJ/UAC award for excellence in journalism 1988, Lagos Soccer Referees Society award for excellence in journalism 2002, Success Digest Male Entrepreneur of the yr award 2002, twenty first Century award for achievement in pioneering Sports activities Radio in Nigeria (2003), TeloComm Humanity award for service to the disabled in 2003 by means of 2006, Worldwide Basis for Excellence award for contribution to mankind and nation constructing (2003), and Sports activities Author of the Yr award from Sporting Champion in 2004. He was an Olympic Torch bearer in Cairo in June 2004 when the Olympic Torch made its first go to to Africa for the reason that inception of the fashionable Olympics. In April 2005 he was named an alumni exhibition and seminar attendee by the American Nationwide Affiliation of Broadcasters, Las Vegas.

Izamoje is a recipient of the 2005 excellence award of the nationwide physique of the Sportswriters affiliation of Nigeria (SWAN).

Izamoje was media committee member, LOC of Nigeria ’99 World Youth Championship; Advertising and marketing Committee member, LOC of Africa Cup of Nations 2000; a member of the pro-league evaluation committee in 2000; a member of the Activity pressure for Tremendous Eagles preparation for the 2000 Nations Cup; a member of the All-Africa Video games brand choice committee in 2001; Chairman of the Nigerian Soccer Summit planning committee in 2002; and a member of the Occasion Evaluation crew, Abuja 2003.

Extensively travelled, he was the one African journalist that lined the historic Marvin Hagler/Sugar Ray Leonard bout in Las Vegas in 1987, and along with his wife the one Africans that attended the worldwide Sports activities Radio Convention, San Diego in 2002. He was between 1999 and 2002 a daily attendee of the worldwide Soccer Expo held yearly in Cannes.

He has lined the Nations cup, World Cup, Commonwealth Video games and the Wimbledon tennis championships. Izamoje was a member of the 12-man Presidential Committee charged by the then Nigerian chief, President Umaru Yar’Adua, to make sure Nigeria’s qualification for and participation within the South Africa 2010 World Cup.

Izamoje is a member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Promoting Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON), Institute of Administrators (IOD), Worldwide Sports activities Journalists Union (AIPS), Unbiased Broadcasters Affiliation of Nigeria (IBAN) and the Broadcasting Organizations of Nigeria (BON). Brila-FM is an affiliate of the Voice of America (VOA) and the one station in West Africa operating well being programmes from the Mayo Clinic. Early in 2012, he obtained a DBA diploma of the Enterprise College, Lausanne, Switzerland on completion of his analysis on Altering Work Values and Small & Medium Organisations in Lagos, Nigeria

He was inducted a fellow of the Nigerian Chartered Institute of Directors and Researchers (CFIAR) in March 2013.