Nigeria’s pioneer newsreader Anike Agbaje-Williams is 87. Born on 23 October 1936,she was the first female television staff announcer and broadcaster in Nigeria and Africa’s first woman broadcaster.
Agbaje-Williams was a pioneer staff of WNTV, which was first television station in Nigeria, she was also the first female broadcaster of the station. She rose to become a producer and director of programmes at the television station before retiring in 1986.