Day: July 2, 2023

4 Days In 3 Cities, How Lai Oso’ll Be Buried – Family

ADEOLA YUSUF

What The World Is Saying Behind Him: Platforms Africa published heart-rending tributes penned from universities professional/academic bodies and media organisations around the World for Lai Oso, communication library set ablaze on Saturday, June 24   The remains of renowned Mass Communication scholar, Professor Lai Oso, will be interred on Friday, July 14, 2023, Platforms Africa reports. Quoting a burial programme released by the family of the late Professor of communication, this leading Africa-ficused media group, notes that the interment would take place in Sagamu, Ogun State, starting from 10.00 a.m.…

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How Lai Oso’ll Be Remembered, By International Press Institute

ADEOLA YUSUF

The International Press Institute Nigeria, the country’s chapter of the global network of editors and media executives, said the deceased will be remembered for his huge contributions to the body of intellectual works in the fields of communication and media in the country and beyond. The institute’s President and Editor-in-Chief of PREMIUM TIMES, Musikilu Mojeed, said Mr Oso will be sorely missed. READ ALSO Lai Oso: What ACSPN Said About Its Ex-President’s Death Tribute To Lai Oso: The Only Area Where My Prof. Failed, By Yusuph Olaniyonu Lai Oso And…

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Lai Oso: What ACSPN Said About Its Ex-President’s Death

ADEOLA YUSUF

  In a statement issued on Sunday evening, ACSPN, the association the deceased led between 2014 and 2020 as its president, said the development constitutes a monumental loss to the association and a “huge loss to the Nigerian and global mass communication and journalism community”. The statement, which was issued on behalf of the association by its Public Relations Officer, Lanre Arogundade, quoted the incumbent President of the association and Vice-Chancellor of Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State, saying; “Professor Oso held the firm conviction that the meeting of the gown…

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Prof Lai Oso: Death of an Icon, By Tunde Abatan

ADEOLA YUSUF

The news came like wild fire.As I opened my phone a little past 3pm Sunday having spent longer time in the Church,I had expected that deluge of pleasant and no so pleasant news would’ve been waiting for me. Yes,bad news is good news but definitely I was not expecting the kind of bad news I received Sunday June 25, 2023. As I opened my friends Lekan Otufodunrin who was by then far away in Washington,the first line of his posting jolted me. It jolted me because,I never expected that such…

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Adieu Prof. Muraino Lai Oso, Doki Oba Theory, By Dare Odufowokan

ADEOLA YUSUF

I am still in shock. Prof Lai Oso, a great man he is. (I may never be able to use the past tense for him). He facilitated my admission into Ogun Poly in 1995 after my mum, who’s his relative, told him I’ve refused to accept the admission offered me by UNILAG. After listening to my reason for abandoning my earlier dream to study law, Prof Oso encouraged me to study mass communication after meeting with me just twice. READ ALSO: Lai Oso And Why Newspapers No Longer Sell, By…

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Man Of Extraordinary Qualities Called Lai Oso, By Khadijat Adedeji-Olona. PhD

ADEOLA YUSUF

It has been over four days since the demise of my supervisor, Prof. Lai Oso, and it feels all so surreal. In the last days, I have read so many tributes in his honour, and as much as I tried to avoid them because the tears would not stop flowing, they keep coming in – all pointing to the extraordinary qualities of the man called Lai Oso. We would not be talking about him this way if we were to focus on his intellectual prowess alone, but Professor Lai Oso…

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Last Encounter With Lai, By Oluwatoyin Shakirat Salami

ADEOLA YUSUF

It has been over six days of trying to accept the fact that we will no longer see our Prof Lai Oso again, and it is a very difficult decision to put pen on paper and write about him, expecially in past tenses, but I must! Not only because he was my supervisor, but the fact that I count myself very lucky and fortunate to have come in contact with him! And I can tell you that it was a great honour, which I will continue to thank the Almighty…

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Lai Oso And Why Newspapers No Longer Sell, By Abiola Ayankunbi

ADEOLA YUSUF

Professor Lai Oso read my interview: Why newspapers no longer sell, and way out. I was told that he enjoyed reading the interview and expressed willingness to see me. The publisher of Front Page linked us together. On seeing me on the agreed date at LASU school of media communication, he was very happy. READ ALSO: Tribute To Lai Oso: The Only Area Where My Prof. Failed, By Yusuph Olaniyonu Assuaging My Thirst From His Intellectual Fountain 33 Years Ago, By Gboyega Bello Lai Oso’s Death, A Big Hole In…

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Assuaging My Thirst From His Intellectual Fountain 33 Years Ago, By Gboyega Bello

ADEOLA YUSUF

Gboyega Bello works at the Group Public Affairs Division of the NNPC I join well-wishers, acquaintances and friends of Prof. Lai Oso to commiserate with his family over his recent passing. May God that has power over our lives give his soul eternal rest while it also bequeath fortitude to his loved ones! Prof. Oso, as anyone that had come in contact with him would attest, was a conscientious person, diligent in his work even as he remained ever friendly and approachable. A gentleman he was to the core. READ…

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We’ve Lost A Great Scholar, By Lanre Idowu

ADEOLA YUSUF

Commenting on the development on a messaging platform on Sunday, an old ally of Mr Oso and respected media practitioner Lanre Idowu said the world lost a good man in Oso. READ ALSO Tribute To Lai Oso: The Only Area Where My Prof. Failed, By Yusuph Olaniyonu Man Of Extraordinary Qualities Called Lai Oso, By Khadijat Adedeji-Olona Last Encounter With Lai, By Oluwatoyin Shakirat Salami Lai, An Encyclopedia Of Communication Theories, By NUJ Goodbye An Unrepentant Progressive, By Adepoju Tejumaye Leicester University Scholar, Promoter Of Critical Tradition Of Communications Scholarship,…

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