Prof. Innocent Emenike OKOYE, Ph.D.

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Prof. Innocent Emenike Okoye, Ph.D., is a Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication and Head, Department of Media and Communication Studies, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. He was educated at the famous Christ the King College, Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria, and obtained his first degree, master’s and doctoral degrees in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and the University of Lagos, Yaba, Lagos, respectively. Before he came to the academia, he practised journalism at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Satellite newspapers and the Daily Times, Lagos. As an academic, he was two-time HOD, Mass Communication and Director, School of Information Technology at Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State; Senior Lecturer at the University of Lagos, Akoka; Pioneer HOD, Department of Mass Communication, Kaduna State University, Kaduna; founding HOD, Mass Communication and Provost, College of Information and Communication Technology, Kwara State University, Malete; and the first substantive Head of the Department of Media and Communication Studies, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, all in Nigeria. Professor Okoye is the author of six journalism/mass communication textbooks which are recommended texts in most Nigerian universities and polytechnics, as well as many scholarly articles in peer-reviewed national and international journals and books. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Guild of Editors.