UNIZIK wins 23rd ACCE AGM hosting rights

Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State has won the hosting rights of the 23rd International Conference/Annual General Meeting of African Council for Communication Education (ACCE).

The hosting right was awarded to the Department of Mass Communication of the institution, while the event is scheduled for October 2022.

In a press statement from the Head of the Department, Prof Chinwe Uzochukwu, the 2022 conference has as its theme: “Communicating Science, Technology and Innovation in Times of Economic Distress, terror and a global pandemic.”

The statement read in part, “The event is an annual ritual done jointly with the Annual General meeting where stakeholders and experts converge for cross-fertilisation of ideas on dominant ideology which every media outfit is expected to reflect in the ambit of national interest.

“The pre-conference research workshop focuses as Mainstreaming Child rights into the unbundled Communication programmes of Nigerian Universities – Prospects and challenges.

“Stakeholders at the conference will critically examine how different branches of communication including advertising, broadcasting, films, new media among others could be tooled to proffer remedial measures to the challenges of developing Nigeria and other African nations.

“The conference is primed to explore the place of science, technology and innovations including the emerging ones such as genomic, biotechnology, synthetic biology, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence and robotic; towards remedying Nigeria’s Health, security, environmental and economic crisis.”

Expressing optimism on a successful hosting of the event, Uzochukwu called for support, sponsorship as well as partnership from government, non governmental bodies as well international organisations.

“ACCE is the biggest professional body that unites communication stakeholders from different media outfits as well as scholars from distinct universities and polytechnics in Nigeria and other African countries.

“It is the major umbrella that brings all communication stakeholders together in Nigeria and has great influence in the output of mass media outfits, practitioners and scholars in Nigeria and the entire African continent.

“We’ve already set up a local conference organising committee led by Dr Obiorah Edogor with a charge to make the conference memorable,” she added.

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