By 
Chairman and founder of Pinnacle Communications, Lucky Omoluwa, is dead. He was confirmed dead this morning by medical doctors at the National Hospital where he was rushed after he slumped in his house. He would have been 66 years in March,
Omoluwa’s company is embroiled in a corruption case involving the recently suspended boss of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Ishaq Modibbo Kawu.
Pinnacle Communications won a carrier license for Broadcasting Signal Distribution (BSD). It has been in forefront of transitioning the country from analogue to digital broadcasting. Pinnacle Communication is country partner to Harris Corporation (now Gates Air), the largest manufacturers of radio and television transmitters in the world.
Omoluwa founded Pinnacle Communications Limited decades ago as a broadcast engineering company and has extensive project influence notably in the northern part of Nigeria.
He was also founder of Pinnacle Investments Ltd, The Centagon International School Ltd and Tarmac Works Ltd. He sat on the board of several companies with interests across construction and international procurements.
Born on the 6th of March, 1954, Sir Omoluwa is a dedicated philanthropist and has extensively supported the less privilege including the blind, widows, physically challenged children and orphans.
Omoluwa was knighted by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010 and was awarded a special congressional recognition by the US Congress in Washington DC in 2012.
