Robert Nii Arday Clegg
Robert Nii Arday Clegg Snr is a Ghanaian lawyer, television and radio journalist. He last worked at Starr 103.5 FM Ghana as a Morning Show host. Clegg left Starr 103.5 FM Ghana in February 2017.
Early life and education
Robert Nii Arday Clegg was born on 22 June 1976 at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, the capital city of Ghana. His late father, Sam Clegg, was a journalist who is most prominently remembered for his time as the editor of the "Daily Graphic", Ghana's oldest and biggest selling newspaper. His mother, Christiana worked at Akasanoma, the electronics division of the defunct Ghana Industrial Holdings Corporation and later at the Ghana Commercial Bank.In 1988, at the age of 12, Robert enrolled in the prestigious Achimota School and he stayed at Livingstone House for all seven years of his high school education and obtained his GCE O' and A' Level certificates.
At Achimota, Robert was a keen sportsman, and a member of the 4x100 meters winning team at the inter-house athletics competition in upper six. He played hockey for the school for 6 years and became the captain of the team during his sixth form days. He also won the Hockey Player of the Year Award at the first Sports Awards held in 1993–94.
Robert served as the Boys Classrooms Prefect in sixth form. In Upper Six, he won the Ayi Kwei Armah Prize for Prose.
Robert entered the University of Ghana, Legon in 1997 and graduated in 2000 with First Class Honours in Political Science with Philosophy. Robert was admitted to the Vice-Chancellor's Honour's List for attaining 6 A grades in the first semester of level 300.
Robert proceeded to the Faculty of Law at the University of Ghana where he won the Bentsi-Enchill Prize for being adjudged the Best Graduating Student in Law. He then enrolled at the Ghana School of Law and was called to the Bar in 2006, winning 4 prizes on the occasion in the Law of Interpretation, Taxation and Industrial Law.
Robert obtained a Master of Laws Degree from Harvard Law School in 2014 and garnered double Honors in the process. At Harvard, Robert was one of 11 students of his graduating class who belonged to the Corporate Law, Finance & Governance Concentration under the directorship of Prof. Mark J. Roe..
Law Practice
Robert is the Managing Partner at Nii Arday Clegg & Co., a corporate law firm.Broadcast career
Robert has had nearly two decades' experience as an on and off radio interviewer, morning show host and television personality. He has interviewed sitting and former presidents and vice-presidents, members of parliament, leaders of business, movie stars and sports personalities. He has received a number of nominations and was also adjudged the Television Current Affairs Talk Show Host of the Year at the 2012 RTP Awards. He was a TEDx Accra speaker in 2016.He started his radio journey in the year 1998 at Radio Univers and later moved to Radio Gold in 2000 where he hosted The Platform.
Clegg was also nominated as Radio Presenter of the Year 2002, having gained national prominence for interviewing former President Jerry John Rawlings, then Vice-president Prof. John Evans Atta-Mills, then Member of Parliament John Mahama, Emmanuel Bob-Akitani, the main opposition candidate in the Togolese presidential elections of 2003 and 2005 at the time when he was in hiding.
Awards/nominations
- Clegg was nominated and won the RTP Awards in the category of "Television Current Affairs Show Host of the Year" at Multi TV.
- Radio Morning Show Host of the Year 2016, Starrfm Ghana, Nominated