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.
“This will feature funeral service, interment and reception,” the event showed.
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The reception will hold at the Royal Hall, Akarigbo Palace, Sagamu.
According to the programme released by the family of the late scholar, a Special Session of Tribute will hold at the FCMS, LASU, Lagos, on July 11, 2023, starting from 11.00 a.m.
The second day of the programme, July 12, 2023, will feature Prof. Lai Oso: A Day of Tributes, in Abeokuta Ogun State, by Communication Schools; Ogun State NUJ; Ogun NIPR; Media Houses; Colleagues etc.
The programme is scheduled to hold between 12 noon and 3:00 p.m. at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, MAPOLY, Abeokuta Ogun State.
On the third day of the programme – July 13, 2023 – a wake keep will be held for Oso at Mercy Hall, Sagamu at exactly 4.00 p.m.
Oso, former Dean, School of Communication Studies, Lagos State University, LASU, died at the age of 67, in an auto-crash along Ore-Sagamu Expressway on his way from Abaraka, Delta State on Saturday, June 24, 2023.
Oso was said to be an external examiner at the Department of Mass communication, Delta State University.
Meanwhile, Platforms Africa has published revealing writeups on the late Professor if communication.
Themed; “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.
Here, in no particular order, are some of the tributes.
Tribute To Lai Oso: The Only Area Where My Prof. Failed, By Yusuph Olaniyonu
‘A Mighty Iroko Has Fallen…One death, Too many!’, By Abigail Ogwezzy-Ndisika
Goodbye An Unrepentant Progressive, By Adepoju Tejumaye
Prof. Lai Oso Is Alive! By Jamiu Folarin
Lai Oso And Why Newspapers No Longer Sell, By Abiola Ayankunbi
A Methodical Communications Statesman, By Olanrewaju Fagbohun, And Olatunji-Bello
Lai Oso: What ACSPN Said About Its Ex-President’s Death
How Lai Oso’ll Be Remembered, By International Press Institute
Adieu Prof. Muraino Lai Oso, Doki Oba Theory, By Dare Odufowokan
Prof Lai Oso: Death of an Icon, By Tunde Abatan
Man Of Extraordinary Qualities Called Lai Oso, By Khadijat Adedeji-Olona. PhD
Last Encounter With Lai, By Oluwatoyin Shakirat Salami
Assuaging My Thirst From His Intellectual Fountain 33 Years Ago, By Gboyega Bello
We’ve Lost A Great Scholar, By Lanre Idowu
In Memoriam: Professor Lai Oso – A Beacon Of Communication And Inspiration, By Yvonne Sanusi
A Colossal Loss To Communication Community, AMACOS ’95 Mourns Prof Lai Oso
Lai Oso: Exit of The Titan of Communications and Media, By Sulaimon Osho
Lai, An Encyclopedia Of Communication Theories, By NUJ
Lai Oso: We Lost A Mentor to Many Successful Public Relations Practitioners In Nigeria, By NIPR
Lai Oso’s Death, A Bitter Pill To Swallow, By Kehinde Oyesomi, Covenant University
