AWARDS AND HONORS

December 2021    "2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner" for Nigeria's Digital                                               Diaspora: Citizen Media, Democracy, and Participation. Rochester, NY: Rochester                                University Press, 2020.

August 2019        Third Place Faculty Paper Research Award, History Division, at the 102nd Annual 
                            Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 
                            (AEJMC) in Toronto, Canada

April 2016             Top-Rated Research Paper, 17th International Symposium on Online Journalism, University                                   of Texas at Austin, USA.

Feb. 2016               Outstanding Research and Creativity Award, School of Communication &

                               Media, Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA

Aug. 2015              Recognized by the KSU Career Services Center as a Faculty who Has Been

                               Named in Surveys as Having “Made the Greatest Difference in the Life of One

                               or More Students This Year.”

Jan. 2016                Recognized by the Editor of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, the

                               world’s oldest referred scholarly journal in mass communication, for being an

                               outstanding reviewer for the journal.

Aug. 2014              Recognized by the Kennesaw State University Career Services Center as “Making a 
                               Difference in the Life of a Graduate” after "Survey of Recent KSU Graduates"

Oct. 2014               Recognized by the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kennesaw 
                               State University, as an Outstanding Faculty Member in the college

April 2014            Department of Communication's 2014 Outstanding Alum Award, University of

                              Louisiana, Lafayette, USA

April 2009           Department of Communication Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement

                            in Graduate Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA      

May 2006            Outstanding Graduate Student in Communication, University of Louisiana,    

                             Lafayette, USA

April 2006           Inducted to the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, University of Louisiana at

                             Lafayette, USA    

June 1997            The Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Prize for the Best Graduating

                            Student in Mass Communication, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria

1993/94                University Scholarship Award for the Outstanding Second Year Student in the

                             Department of English and European Languages, Bayero University, Kano,

                             Nigeria

1992/93                University Scholarship Award for the Outstanding First Year Student in the

                             Department of English and European Languages, Bayero University, Kano,

                             Nigeria