Set to deliver 29th inaugural lecture
The newly appointed pioneer Dean, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, Imo State University, Prof. Dede J. Konkwo, has assumed duties, and would be delivering the university’s 29th Inaugural Lecture on April 13.

The new faculty, with nine departments, is a product of recently completed unbundling exercise of \the Department of Mass Communication, which was a department under the Faculty of Social Sciences of the institution.

Disclosing this to The Guardian, yesterday, in Owerri, Konkwo, a professor of broadcast communication, together with the Coordinator of postgraduate studies of the faculty, Associate Professor Bernard J.C. Anyanwu, who said the topic of the lecture is “Contradictions in a Land of Plenty: Mitigating the Pangs of Rural Poverty in Nigeria Through Community Broadcasting,” disclosed that the academic brainstorming exercise would take place at the institution’s auditorium in Owerri at 10:00 a.m., noting that “the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Uchefula Chukwumaeze, on behalf of the university’s Senate and the community, had approved and ensured there is enabling environment for a hitch-free lecture.”

Konkwo informed that the Chairman of the Senate Ceremonial Committee, Rev Fr. Ethel Amaku; the Secretary of the Senate Ceremonial Committee, Fidelis Onyemauwa, among other academics, lecturers, students and officials of the institution, as well as others, would attend the event.