Nigeria’s Professor Alfred Opubor dies in Cotonou
Late Prof. Alfred Opubor
Nigeria’s foremost communications expert, Professor Alfred Opubor, is dead.
Aged 75 years, Opubor died in the late hours of the night of 2 December, 2011, following a brief illness at the University Teaching Hospital in Cotonou, Benin according to a statement from the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA),
Professor Opubor, reputed to be the first man in Africa to get a doctoral degree (Ph D) in communications, was one of the first generation of specialists in the field of communications as a behavioural science, having graduated from the Michigan State University, in the US, with a PhD degree in 1969.
His expertise was in communication theories and message systems, and their applications in development.
A former head of the department of mass communications at the University of Lagos, Professor Opubor was also a researcher, government policy adviser and senior communications specialist in the United Nations system. He was also an international consultant in strategic communications and media development. (more…)
