File photo By Dotun Omisakin, Lagos Students of the postgraduate diploma of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, (NIJ) have expressed concern over the administration of the institution bordering on late admission, length of the number of courses other things they view as improper. A few of the students who were offered admission a month to the commencement of exams believed they were hoodwinked by the institution's online advert announcing the door of admission was still open after two months of lectures. For the sake of protection, the names of these students would not be disclosed. One of them, in her chat with our correspondent, felt disappointed after she was offered admission at the 7th week of the academic calendar. According to her, she was told that lectures began in January, contrary to what she saw when she began lectures. "I was told that lectures started in January." She said. She added that she was lost about what to do in between getting the satisfaction of...
Dr. Qasim Akinreti By Dotun Omisakin A lecturer of Nigerian Institute of Journalism, NIJ at Ogba, Lagos Dr. Qasim Akinreti has said that his goal at the peak of his journalism career is to train and produce five thousand journalists. Dr. Akinreti has always made the above statement as his mantra during his classes with the present 2021/2022 students of Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) urging them to maximize their academic voyage to flushed out nonchalant parading themselves as journalist. “My goal is to train 5000 journalists.” He said. The Lecturer who handled the course; New Media, used his class session to open the see of his students that the noble profession has been clustered by men who hid themselves under the disguise of being bloggers to bring the profession to dispute. He urged the students during his classes to take the bull by the horn and latch on the opportunities in the new media to push out contents that would inform, entertain and educate the public...