Agatha Amata

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Agatha Amata
Born (1969-11-04) 4 November 1969 (age 54)
Lagos, Nigeria
Occupation(s)Media entrepreneur, Talk show host
Website insideoutmedia.tv

Agatha Amata (born 4 November 1969), is a Nigerian media entrepreneur, talk show host, speaker, TV presenter and philanthropist. [1] [2] She is best known for her talk show Inside Out with Agatha, which is the longest running television talk show in Nigeria which has aired for over twenty years. [3]

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Career

Amata is the host of Inside Out With Agatha, an independent television talk show she has hosted for 20 years, which deals with topical issues that affect the society focusing on family using the youth as a tool. Issues are discussed before a live audience. Starting its recording programme from the Law faculty main auditorium of the University of Lagos and moving later on to her new studio in Ilupeju, Lagos. [4]

She is also the managing director of Inside-Out Media Ltd, a media consultancy and production firm based in Lagos Nigeria, which created RAVE TV in 2014, [5] an interactive television platform, currently transmitting on GOTV (CH113), Startimes (CH125), MYTV and Abuja DSO Free TV, 745 in Lagos and also a Radio station situated in Asaba, Delta state; TREND FM 100.9. [6]

She founded a Non-governmental organization known as the Inside Out with Agatha Foundation (IOWA) through which she hopes to employ the media as a tool for societal moral development.[ citation needed ]

Amata is a motivational speaker who has spoken at both international and national platforms. She has spoken at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Africa Innovate Conference in Boston Massachusetts, the Women In Journalism Conference, the Rotary Club and also a Youth Empowerment Conference (Ambassadors Summit) at the University of Lagos.[ citation needed ]

Awards [7]

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References

  1. ↑ Opinion: Agatha Amata at 43, The Will, November 30, 2013.
  2. ↑ 46 Things You Must Know About Agatha Amata, The Nigerian Voice, October 22, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Inside Out With Agatha Celebrates 20th Anniversary With New TV show "The Search"". BellaNaija. 28 April 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  4. ↑ "INSIDE OUT WITH AGATHA IS A SURVIVOR AT 20 AND WE SHOULD ALL BE TAKING NOTES". YNaija. 4 August 2017. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  5. ↑ "Agatha Amata completes N300 million TV station". Encomium Magazine. Archived from the original on 18 August 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "Rave TV Clocks 1, Set to Open Trend 100.9 FM Asaba". Nigeria Communications Week. Archived from the original on 17 August 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
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