Opinion: Remembering the “Profeseers” of UNILAG, By Joke Omotunde
Now that we have seen and passed through the automatic doors of life and realised the world indeed is a global village, we shall forever remain grateful to our professors who saw tomorrow, as it were, and prepared us for the challenges ahead. It is time to say “thank you” a thousand and one times again to them, the Department and, of course, the entire University.
Professor Nwuneli would talk about the emerging communication technologies that would reduce the world to a “Global Village” ; one that would enable you see live pictures of breaking news event from different parts of the world from the comfort of your living room. Wow! With hindsight, I later realised the professors didn’t even tell us the full scale of the impact communication technology would have on us 40 years after our graduation from the department.
My first realisation of the seeming realities of the professors’ “fabrications” of those years of study of Mass Communication, came about in the very year of our graduation from the Department in 1980. That year, the Cable News Network , an American news-based pay television channel commenced transmission. It was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and was the first all-news television channel in the United States.
The most accurate period for Professors Nwuneli and Opubor to justify their 40-year-old predictions came about this year. In spite of the COVID-19 lockdown, which brough human activities to a near complete and utter standstill, the media, aided by tech tools, was able to function and perform its key role of informing the citizenry of the guidelines to stay safe during the pandemic.
What else can we say about these lecturers who predicted the future of our profession and warned us in advance that the changes that would affect it would throw us out of job if we failed to move ahead of the curve.
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