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RaypowerAbuja
RaypowerAbuja Logo
Broadcast areaNigeria
FrequencyFM: 100.5MHz
Programming
FormatAfrobeats
and urban contemporary
Ownership
OwnerDAAR Communications Plc
Raypower 100.5 FM Lagos Raypower Kaduna, Raypower Benin, Raypower Port Harcourt, Raypower Jos, Raypower Kano, Raypower Yenagoa, Raypower Enugu, Raypower Ilorin, Raypower Katsina, Raypower Makurdi, Raypower Yola, Raypower Bauchi, Raypower Gombe, Raypower Maiduguri, Raypower Owerri, Raypower Osogbo, Raypower Agenebode and Raypower Calabar.
History
First air date
1 January 2005

Raypower Abuja is an independent private Nigerian radio station that broadcasts on the 100.5 FM frequency from Abuja, FCT, Nigeria. It started broadcasting on January 1, 2005.

History

In the wake of deregulation of broadcasting on 24th August 1992, DAAR Communications Plc applied for and was granted approval to operate an independent radio station. The station which started test transmission on the 15th of December, 1993 made history on the 1st of September, 1994 when it commenced commercial broadcasting with the launch of Raypower 100.5 fm in Lagos as the first 24-hour broadcast service station in Nigeria as well as the first private independent broadcasting station in the country.