Taiwo Allimi

Taiwo Olubowale Allimi (born December 17, 1944, in Sagamu, Nigeria), is a Nigerian journalist and media executive.

Founding member, global media aids initiative with Kofi Annan as chairman, UN New York, January 2004.

He was author and initiator of the village-square-meeting concept for bottom-up approach and participatory governance towards sustainable human development in Nigeria, 1986.

coordinator, Ogun State elders’ consultative forum, a non-partisan advisory group offering insight, guidance and direction on the weighty issues of contemporary governance in Ogun state, south west Nigeria – 2005 to date.

Chairman, plenary session, UNECA conference on “Putting development at the heart of broadcasting”, Addis Ababa, April 2003.