Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, OON is the Founder and Chairman of The Silverbird Group.
The Silverbird Group is a diversified multi-media company with holdings in Communication, Real Estate, and Cinemas.The company was established in 1980 by Ben Murray-Bruce. The group owns the Silverbird TV, Silverbird Cinemas, the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (MBGN) pageant and Mr Nigeria Contest . Its business divisions are : Silverbird Properties, Silverbird Film Distribution, Silverbird Communications,,Silverbird Production and Dream Magic Studios.
Ben Murray- Bruce is known as the King of Entertainment in Nigeria for being the number one showbiz impresario straight after his graduation from the University of South Carolina in the United States of American in 1979, he started his popular Silverbird Productions in 1980 and brought top African American R&B, funk and disco acts for sold out live concerts in Lagos, including Kool & the Gang, Delegation, Rafael Cameron. SOLAR (the Sound of Los Angeles Records) artistes, Shalamar, Dynasty, The Whispers, Lakeside and Carrie Lucas. Then launched his Silverbird Group having the Miss Universe Nigeria Pageant, Miss Intercontinental Pageant and the most popular annual Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (MBGN) that discovered Ibiagbanidokibubo Asenite 'Agbani' Darego, MFR, a Nigerian model who was crowned Miss World in 2001. The first black African to win the Miss World beauty pageant.
He was appointed as Director-General of Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) from 1999 to 2003.
As a frontline member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), he was elected to the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in March 2015, representing the Bayelsa East Senatorial District, in Bayelsa State.
He is the owner of the Silverbird Galleria in Lagos opened the Silverbird Cinemas with the first multiplex of five screens in Nigeria and more cinemas in Abuja, Uyo, Warri and Port Harcourt. .The Silverbird Communications Limited of the Silverbird Group has the biggest and largest private radio and TV network in West Africa comprising the Rhythm 93.7 FM in Lagos, 93.7 FM Port Harcourt, Rhythm 94.7 FM in Abuja, Rhythm 93.7 FM Jos, Rhythm 95.7 FM Awka, and Rhythm 93.7 FM Benin.
He is a member of the Black Music Association of America with Quincy Jones, Dick Griffey, Stevie Wonder and Executive Director of the Coalition for a Free Africa with the late President Samora Machel of Mozambique. He is a member of the Board of National Arts Theatre (BNT), Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC), Federal Films Censors Board (FFCB), National Film Distribution Company (NFDC) and Nigerian Anti- Piracy Action Committee(NAPAC).
Segun Julius Agbaje (born Olusegun Agbaje; 1964) is the Group Chief Executive Officer of Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc (also known as GTCO PLC) a multinational financial services group, that offers retail and investment banking, pension management, asset management and payments services, headquartered in Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. He is also a Director of PepsiCo and member of the Mastercard Advisory Board, Middle East and Africa.
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