Professor Abdallah is said to be among the few intellectuals of international repute to have attained the position of double professor, first in science education and curriculum development in the faculty of education in 1997, and second, on media and cultural communication in the field of media and film studies in 2012.
The conference, which would be held in collaboration with Bayero University Kano and Freedom Radio Group is expected to attract more than sixty distinguished scholars from across the globe.
A statement issued on behalf of the organizers, Alhaji Umar Saidu Tudunwada said that the conference, scheduled to hold at the Musa Abdullahi Auditorium, Bayero University, Kano, would concentrate on “Transglobal Media, Knowledge Transfer and African Identities.”
He said that Professor Onookome Okome of the Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton Canada will be the keynote speaker at the occasion, while the Magajin Malam of Ringim and former Director General of the then Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria as well as former Director General of the Nigerian Television Authority, Alhaji Muhammad Ibrahim will be the Chairman of the opening session.
Umar Tudunwada said that the Kano State Governor, Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has been scheduled as special guest even as education minister, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau will serve as Guest of Honor.
The organizers have tipped the Emir of Kano, Malam Muhammadu Sanusi II to serve as royal father of the day. [myad]
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