Professor Ladi Adamu of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria’s department of Mass Communication, is dead.
She passed on Wednesday morning at the National Hospital, Abuja after a protracted illness.
Professor Ladi Adamu was born on July 17, 1958 at Yaba, Lagos.
Her late father Adamu Pankshin, was killed as a soldier in the line of duty while she was still very young. Her father – the late Adamu Pankshin was better known to many old time soldiers as Sgt Major Adamu Pankshin, and had made history as the first Nigerian to become a Regimental Sergeant Major of the Nigerian Army Corps of Engineers in Kaduna.
The young Ladi attended Queen Amina College, Kakuri, Kaduna and obtained her B.A. Mass Communication (specializing in radio and television) at Columbia College, Los Angeles, California (USA) and B.A. Journalism and Mass Communication, at City University, London, Credits transferred to Columbia College, Los Angeles (USA). The quest for intellectual acquisition took Prof.
She took MA (Communication Arts – Film), at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California (USA). She continued her academic pursuit to enrich herself with a PGD (Development Studies) from Mount Carmel Golda Meir Institute, Haifa (Israel), and finally settled down for Ph.D.
The Professor began her professional career as a PRO at the Nigerian Consulate, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, between 1982 and 1984; News Editor, NYSC, NTA Jos, from 1984 to 1985. She was also at Nigerian Television Authority, NTA Jos, between 1985 and 1987.
She finally settled down as Lecturer in the department of Mass Communication, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in 1999, where she has remained till date rising through the ranks to become the first professor of broadcasting in Northern Nigeria.
