our people

  Idris Olagoke Badmus is the Chairman and CEO of Amni Corporation, Afromultimedia Studios Inc, ARIYA TV Corporation and ARIYA TV Limited.

A businessman of repute, 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), to bridge that gap.

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 birthed subsidiaries that now includes a highly specialized Nollywood production company by the name Afromultimedia Studios, and also ARIYA TV, the first global Streaming and Broadcasting platform for exclusive African News and Movies.

A passionate Pan African, he hopes to use both Ariya TV and Afromultimedia Studios to promote African stories and particularly to tell African stories the way Africans want it told. 

 Oliver C. Opara, was born on 20th April, 1965. He has a degree in Law & practiced in Nigeria for while switching to the banking Industry while he has a total of 28 years experience in Nigerian Banks rising to the level of Regional Director before retiring in June, 2020. Mr Oliver Opara also has an MBA in Management. He is happily married with three children 

Robin Evaigeis Director of Media and Public Relations for AMNI Corporation and Board Secretary for past 3 years. Ms Evaige oversees media and public relations and corporate affairs for our New York office. She assists in matters of investor relations, crowd sourcing and business operations for U.S. offices also. Ms. Evaige specializes in multi-international business development in West Africa and other regions.  For the past 9 years, Ms. Evaige has focused her expertise in developing new global business opportunities for Africa in the areas of construction, technology, banking and oilfield industries..

Sulaimon Olanrewaju is a member of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN), a Fellow of the Institute of Information Management, Africa (IIM), and also a Fellow of the Institute of Management Specialists (IMS).

Olanrewaju bagged a bachelor’s degree from the University of Ibadan and a master’s degree in Media and Communication from the Lagos Business School (Pan-Atlantic University), Lagos. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the university.

A former Acting Editor of the Nigerian Tribune and member of the Editorial Board, he also served as the Group Business Editor as well as Business Development and Strategy Manager of the African Newspapers of Nig Plc.

A multiple professional award winner, he has won the Nigeria Media Merit Award (NMMA), the highest media honour in Nigeria, on six different occasions. He is also a Fellow of the Reuters Academy, London.