ANIETIE Akpan, Calabar The body of late veteran Journalist and professor of Mass Communication, Prof. Etim Anim, has been laid to rest. He was interred yesterday in his hometown Urueofong Uruko, amid tears and wailing from relations and sympathisers. Anim, a former editor of Chronicle and Sunray Newspapers, died late 2015.

At the lying-in-state at the Ernest Bassey Press Centre in Calabar, where he was eulogised by his colleagues, the Coordinator of International Institute of Journalism, Calabar Study Centre, Elder Oqua Itu, said, in spite of all odds, journalism remains a dignified profession and described the late Anim as a great journalist, who made his mark in the profession.

While paying tribute to his former boss and senior colleague, Itu described him as a disciplined man, who successfully mentored several great people in the journalism profession.

He said the late Anim did not only live a life worthy of emulation professionally, but was able, through his carriage; to impress it upon all that journalism is still a revered profession.