Dr. Dayo Duyile’s story has been an inspiration since the news of his Doctoral Degree in Mass Communication at the University of Lagos broke. Duyile has practiced as a journalist for about six decades, rising from a reporter to the pinnacle of being an Editor at the Daily Sketch. He had also served as…Dr. Dayo Duyile’s story has been an inspiration since the news of his Doctoral Degree in Mass Communication at the University of Lagos broke.
The idea of bagging a PhD was reignited about 35 years ago. I was in Namibia for a conference and I met a man of over 70 years who just completed his PhD programme and his town was celebrating him. I saw this and I became enchanted again about the need to bag a PhD. I have had so many other opportunities in Canada and Australia but it did not come to fruition. I kept the spirit of doing a PhD in me even after retiring actively from the newsroom and was staying in Ondo State. Suddenly, I saw that I must renew the need to do a PhD. So, I got in touch with the University of Lagos when it advertised and through the intervention of Prof Ralph Akinfeleye, who was Head of the Department of Mass Communication, I was admitted.
When you are in the university for a doctoral degree, one will come in contact with so many possible topics for the research, but I have always been interested in the history of Nigerian media and I have written books and articles in that discipline.
The idea of bagging a PhD has always been my ambition. And I was not willing to let it go because it was my desire to achieve it no matter the risk. I know I was aging. If the brain is still very sharp and functional, one could test it. Also, as a primary school pupil, my headmaster used to tell me that, with my spoken English and the way I write, I would be a good journalist. I put that in mind too. Each time I went to my headmaster’s house, I always read a quote in front of his room, which says, “University education is my ambition.” I memorised and made it my motto.
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