A former vice-chancellor of the Federal College, Kashere in Gombe State, Professor Umaru Pate, says past due famend Mass Communique student and previous commissioner for schooling in Lagos State, Professor Idowu Akanbi Sobowale, could be remembered for coaching generations of verbal exchange students in Nigeria and past.
Talking to LEADERSHIP Weekend the previous day over the death of Prof. Sobowale who died on the age 85 not too long ago, Pate described his dying as an overly unhappy loss.
He stated the student lived his length, and his passage represented the passage of generations of students who pioneered verbal exchange research in Nigeria.
“In lifestyles, not anything is everlasting, Professor Idowu Sobowale lived inside of his length, he left generations of students that he helped coaching. This can be a very unhappy loss, he used to be some of the early fellows who turned into professor within the box of verbal exchange.”
“In reality, he studied and led within the educating of Mass Communique on the College of Lagos and served in lots of capacities within the educational ladder as exterior examiner, manager and equipped highbrow and administrative management roles in numerous establishments. We thank God for his lifestyles,” Prof. Pate stated.
Prof. Pate, the pioneer president of the Society of Nigerian Broadcasters who holds the standard identify of Kaigama Adamawa, additional asserted that the past due Professor Sobowale left legacy books which next generations would learn and his identify would stay for a long time in verbal exchange scholarship.
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