Meet Ismail Adegboyega Ibraheem, UNILAG Professor of Communication, the scholar his ex-students described as a development Communication titan with uncommon humility. Here are the details of his elevation, first from Platforms Africa
The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has promoted Dr. Ismail Ibraheem to the cadre of a full professor in the area of communication and journalism studies at the University of First Choice.
The University Governing Council Platforms Africa gathered exclusively, ratified Ibraheem’s promotion on Thursday, 3rd of March, 2022, having considered him fit for the exalted position.
He was, until his promotion, the Acting Director International Relations, Partnerships and Prospect and an associate professor at the Department of Mass Communication UNILAG.
Ibraheem who confirmed this in a reply to a message from Platforms Africa, said: “I am delighted to inform you that University of Lagos Governing Council ratified my appointment as a professor of Communications and Journalism Studies.”
The Prof, His Path and Profile: Meet Ismail Adegboyega Ibraheem, UNILAG Professor of Communication
Dr Ismail Ibraheem, now full Professor, was before now, an associate Professor in the area of communication and journalism studies with more than 25 years of cumulative experience in both industry and academia.
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He is a graduate of the prestigious University of Leicester, United Kingdom where he obtained Master’s and PhD qualifications in mass communication specializing in media and public policy analysis between 1997 and 2004. He also attended the University of Lagos, Nigeria between 1986 and 1992 where he obtained a first degree in mass communication and masters in political science.
Dr. Ibraheem has a wealth of experience working for private, public and voluntary sector organizations in the United Kingdom and Nigeria. A former British Chevening Scholar, Dr Ibraheem is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mass Communication and Acting Director of International Relations, Partnerships and Prospects (IRPP) University of Lagos.
His industry experience includes, among others, working with global experts to mobilise academics to develop strategies to combat global poverty and development challenges as well as working as a member of a committee of experts commissioned by the Government Office for the East Midlands (GOEM) in the United Kingdom to review proposals on new ways of community governance through the Empowerment White Paper titled: Unlocking the Talent of our Communities.
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His academic experience includes, among others, using evidence-based practice to develop pedagogical resources and using reflective methodology to promote interactive student focused learning in course delivery. He has supervised more than 100 postgraduate students and mentored more than 50 students who are now occupying important and strategic positions in both the industry and the academia. Dr Ibraheem is the Chair of Cable News Foundation, Nigeria, Co-Chair West Africa for Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), and Member of Board, Endow Africa. His current research area straddles the following:
Media Representation of Migration, Poverty and Crime.Media Ecology Journalism Practice, Health and Development Communication.
What Ex-Students of New Professor Say
Former students of the new Professor, including Team Lead, Platforms Africa, Adeola Yusuf, have taken to the social media to pour eulogies on the mass communication scholar.
“This is a moment we have been waiting for. The moment excellence becomes more desirable as men in pursuit of it get their due reward.
“Professor Ibraheem has become a potent example for many who need to understand Excellence and Patience. As my lecturer and MSc thesis supervisor, he did not settle for anything less than excellence and he would, with patience, take you through to berth at that point of excellence. Hearty congratulations, sir,” Yusuf said.
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Another ex-student of Ibraheem, Jamiu Folarin, a lecturer of Mass communication at the Crescent University, Abeokuta, said that Ibraheem was the one who prevented him from becoming an academic gangster.
“Congratulations to an academic titan who prevented me from becoming an academic gangster.
“Professor Ibraheem is one of my postgraduate teachers who influenced me to purged myself of the rascality which I wish to bring to the academics as a researcher and lecturer.
“He is an embodiment of humility and
personify the golden lesson I first learn when I joined the academic community: The more you learn, the more you know that you know less to nothing and makes you more humble.
“May Allah make this beneficial to you in this life and the hereafter.
Congratulations, Professor Ismail Ibraheem for your elevation to the rank of a FULL Professor.”
