PERSONALITY PROFILE Chief Anthony Tosan Prest (born 1 October1960,Warri, Nigera) born in Warri to the late Chief Arthur Prest and Mrs Mabel Prest in 1960. Chief Arthur Prest who was the Olorogun of Warri,was one of the founders of Action Group Party where he served as deputy leader to Chief Obafemi Awolowo for 10 years, he later became Nigeria`s first Minister of Communications in Nigeria and later, the country`s Ambassador to the court of St. Jamesin the United Kingdom. He established Prest Cable and Satellite TV Systems, the first cable satellite redistribution service in the whole of the Niger-Delta. He started with TDMA technology, went on to CDMA, then WBCDMA, He introduced wireless internet to Benin in 1997 and it was the only internet service provider in Nigeria outside Lagos. 60 % Prestel was sold to Oceanic bank in 2008 and Prestel is now rolling out a national unified license EVDO network all over Nigeria. Tony Prest was born in Warri to the...
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