Draft:Idris Olagoke Badmus
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Idris Olagoke Badmus is the Chairman and CEO of Amni Corporation, Afromultimedia Studios Inc, ARIYA TV Corporation and ARIYA TV Limited.[citation needed]
A businessman of repute, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-idris-olagoke-badmus-06b94181, Badmus saw the vacuum that existed among 1.5 billion Africans in Africa who are not known to do business among themselves and founded the African Center Foundation (ACF), https://esango.un.org/civilsociety/showProfileDetail.do?method=showProfileDetails&profileCode=2260 to bridge that gap; https://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/479802/amni-corporation-launches-its-streaming-platform-at-wwwafromultimediastudioscom.
ACF is an international Humanitarian Organization that collaborates with communities and people in Africa to develop education, local industries and generally encourage Africans to communicate, and do business, among themselves
As the President of the organization that he founded in 1989, Badmus obtained a Special Consultative Status with the United Nations in 2003. Presently, African Center Foundation is in 21 African countries, and also in Italy, England and the United States.
To encourage continental communication among Africans, he founded the Africa Today News and was the first Editor-in-Chief of the multilingual international magazine that was published in Italian, French, English languages. Africa Today was first Published in 1994.
In 2014, he started AMNI Corporation, formerly Afromedia News Corp, in New York.
By 2019, AMNI Corporation https://amnicorporations.com/our_people/ birthed subsidiaries that now includes a highly specialized Nollywood production company by the name Afromultimedia Studios, https://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/494219/amni-corporation-welcomes-three-new-directors-to-its-board, and also ARIYA TV, the first global Streaming and Broadcasting platform for exclusive African News and Movies, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2e3EzNFUZw6b5UVMBShDyw
A passionate Pan African, he hopes to use both Ariya TV and Afromultimedia Studios to promote African stories and particularly to tell African stories https://tribuneonlineng.com/stakeholders-mull-adapting-book-on-late-veteran-journalist-olu-makinde-into-movie/ the way Africans want it told. https://tribuneonlineng.com/afromultimedia-studio-commences-streaming-promises-nigerians-a-good-time/