Pioneer Deputy Managing Director of The Sun Publishing Limited, the late Pastor Dimgba Igwe, will figuratively resurrect on Friday as media gurus, public relations and marketing giants and other eminent Nigerians gather in his honour in Lagos.
The event holding at Colossus Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos, behind Sheraton Hotel, is the 10th anniversary lecture in honour of Igwe, who died on September 6, 2013, organised by a committee of friends and mentees of the late journalist.
The lecture scheduled to be delivered by veteran journalist, Father of Soft-sell journalism in Nigeria, and publisher of Prime People, Mr. Muyiwa Adetiba, is entitled: Tabloid Journalism: Yesterday, Today and The Future, with Prince Nduka Obaigbena, founder of Thisday Newspapers and ARISE Television as Chairman of the occasion.
Former Governor of Ogun State, Aremo Olusegun Osoba and the matriarch of the Igwe Family, Pastor Mrs. Obioma Dimgba-Igwe, are Special Guests of Honour.
Chairman of the Organising Committee, Chief Femi Adesina, former Special Adviser to former President Mohammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, said the epoch was conceptualized to celebrate the gigantic contributions of the late Igwe to Nigerian journalism, his unwavering commitment to good governance, public order, advancement of democracy, as well as general development of the country.
Adesina, a former Managing Director of The Sun and former President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, has this to say of the event:
“This lecture is a celebration of a man, who, together with his ‘twin brother’, Chief Mike Awoyinfa, midwifed Nigeria’s first Saturday newspaper, Weekend Concord, at a time many had thought such novelty was impracticable in the country’s media space at the time.
“But they not only blazed the trail, they mentored a generation of journalists who have flown the flag very high in their different spheres of calling and influence in Nigeria, Africa and across the world. That is why we are celebrating him through this public lecture, which would be an annual event and it will get bigger with each year passing.”
