(PRESS STATEMENT)
Sa’in Kilgori and former three-time Sokoto State Commissioner of Health, Works and Agriculture, Dr Muhammad Jabbi Kilgori, has praised the students and staff of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto on the sterling and outstanding performance of the University’s Campus FM Radio station which clocks one year this weekend.
Speaking after watching a 10-minute documentary produced by the department to mark the one year of broadcast by the Campus Radio station, the monarch admonished the student journalists and broadcasters to ensure professionalism, factual reporting, balance of stories and pursuit of responsible journalism.
He encouraged local residents of the catchment area to motivate and inspire their children to study mass communication , espousing that the world today is driven and controlled to a large extend by different levels of communication specifically and the media in general.
Kilgori who is a Senior Counsellor in the Sokoto Sultanate Council and also one of the eleven kingmakers of the Caliphate expressed his delight on the successful accreditation and teaching of Mass Communication as a degree course at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, something that citizens had been yearning for over a very long period of time.
The Head of Department of Mass Communication, Dr Abubakar Mijinyawa, told the story of the lengthy tortuous journey of setting up the Mass Communication department in Sokoto as well as acquiring the radio license from the National Broadcasting Commission culminating in start of transmission a year a the ago.
The department now has about 200 students and about 12 tenure , adjunct and visiting lecturers.
The University’s Campus Radio which is run and managed by the students of Mass Communication, transmits 10 hours of news and programmes daily, serving the adjoining communities of Dundaye, Kwalkwalawa, Gomburawa, parts of Sokoto North, Kware, and Wamakko Local Governments as well as the university community.
The event was witnessed by former Director General, National Broadcasting Commission also a former Commissioner of Information Sokoto State as well as Kogunan Sokoto.
E-Signed:
Dr Danladi Bako
Senior Lecturer (visiting)
Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto
April 12, 2025.
