Famous Prof of Communication, Emevwo Biakolo is dead

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Professor Emevwo Biakolo, scholar in Classics, poet, writer, former lecturer at the University of Ibadan, and Founding Dean, School of Media and Communication, Pan-Atlantic University, Lekki, Lagos, is dead. Prof. Biakolo died in his sleep on Friday.

Prof. Biakolo was an exceptional man of letters. He was a member of the Editorial Board of The Guardian Newspaper and a Columnist of the same newspaper during the Abacha dictatorial military rule and, I think, during the dying days of the Babaginda military rule.

He strove in his weekly Column to remind the military overlords that a dictatorship that scuttles the rule of law cannot lead to human flourishing.

A public intellectual of repute, Prof.Biakolo was my friend.

On several occasions Prof Biakolo and I collaborated in some projects to promote the culture of life.

Gentle, amiable, soft-spoken and respectful, Prof Biakolo was an exceptional academic. In what could be dubbed as a self-exile, Prof Biakolo went to Botwana for a certain period to continue to lecture in a Botswana University. He returned to Nigeria after his sojourn in Botswana to continue to contribute to the improvement of human development in Nigeria.

May God grant his soul a perfect rest.

Source: The News Guru

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