Experts to students: acquire skills, certificates.
By Nurudeen Adebayo and Tolulope Onifade. Students of the Department of Mass Communication, Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH) have been advised to embrace skills that will make them stand out in the workplace. It was at the fourth Town-Gown Summit of the department tagged: “Your skill(s), your future!”. Experts who spoke were a seasoned journalist and media career development specialist, Mr. Lekan Otufodunrin; Chief Executive Officer, Modion Communication, Mr. Odion Aleouba; Public Relations and media specialist, Mr. Tayo Akanle and Head of Marketing, Lagos Traffic Radio (96.1FM), Mr. Dare Durosimi, who represented the station’s General Manager. Aleouba in his presentation entitled: “Disruption of Public Relations in the digital age”, predicted the future of Public Relations (PR) and explained the trends in the PR space. “Edelman, the world’s top earning PR Agency posted $984.921,000 revenue in 2022 more than the $798,825,835 earned