HISTORY OF UNIZIKSUGNEWS MEDIA (USN)

In the 2012/2013 Academic session in Nnamdi Azikiwe University, the Office of Public Relations SUG, under the creative and foresighted leadership of Comrade Obiora Ezenwa, created the first ever Zikites blog which lead to the birth of UnizikSugNews Media after the untimely death of the Giant Newspaper started the previous academic session by Comrade David Agu.

 

 

 

Comrade Obiora Ezenwa became the first Manager of the media team by virtue of his being the Union's Image maker/P.R.O. He recruited many gifted students and gave them the opportunity to explore their talents and become better. During the ill-fated ASUU strike of 2013, his office was the most active both on all channels on social media and by physical default as he worked around the clock to keep students informed. He laid a very good and strong foundation for the consolidation that is happening now.

 

 

Comrade Obiora Ezenwa handed over to Comrade Clinton Nwobu as the new SUG P.R.O for 2013/2014 academic session and by default, he became the new manager of the UnizikSugNews Media Team, the media arm of the Office of Public Relations, Students Union Government, Nnamdi Azikiwe University. Banking on continuity as a great asset, Comrade Clinton consolidated on the gains of his predecessor and went ahead to maintain USN by increasing students participation in the visit of the USN blog and social media outlets. He perfectly made sure the students still held the Office of Public Relations in high regards as the most functional office in the Students Union.

 

 

 

Wildly celebrated as the only Union official in the history of Students Union elections in Nnamdi Azikiwe University who won his election through social media, Martin Beck Nworah (MBN) was elected as the P.R.O of the S.U.G in the 2014/2015 academic session to take over from Comrade Clinton Nwobu and by default, he became the 3rd substantive manager of UNIZIKSUGNEWS MEDIA TEAM. With lots of expectations from an office of such magnitude in terms of information dissemination for a federal university with more than 50,000 people (both students, lecturers, workers and administrators), Martin Beck Nworah set out to re-brand and upgrade the media services of USN.

In January of 2015, he recruited over 30 students to help in gathering information from all the faculties in the university. By the middle of that year, UnizikSugNews Media was averaging a total of 63,057 unique visitors every month on the divergent social media platforms on the internet. Martin Beck Nworah initiated so many fun and interactive ways of keeping the students informed and entertained which included the "Chinua Achebe morning quote", "Unizik News Updates at 5pm", "#hashtag night convo at 9:30pm", "Saturday Special Feature Story", e.t.c.

Towards October 2015, Martin Beck Nworah (MBN), the Image Maker of the union saw the need to extend the portfolio of UnizikSugnews Media to a print media. For the first time and through personal funding, the first ever USN magazine titled "After School, what next?" was published as a joint venture investment in late November and released to the public in December.

In addition to that, he is planning to organise the biggest Zikites event ever tagged #ZikitesUSNConnect where all Zikites that have been following USN's updates will gather for an evening of fun, dance, games and freebies.

At #ZikitesUSNConnect , EVERYONE that will attend the event will be going home with a copy of "After school, what next?" Magazine. Also, over 200 hundred copies of "Diary of a Unizik Babe" and some Unizik tags will also be given out to our ardent followers on Facebook during the "Lucky dip" at the event. You don't want to miss out on all of these and so much more. Metallic UNIZIK tags will also be given out.

Fun. Dance. Comedy. Games. Freebies. Chops!

Date: Dec.12!

Time: 6pm!

Venue: Fayrouz Spot Ifite!

The tickets for #ZikitesUSNConnect can be obtained for 1k only. Call 08144322744 to get yours now!

Finally, over the years, the Public Relations Officers of our Union have proven to be assets and they continually live up to their campaign promises. As another SUG election brews in the not-so-distant future, we hope someone who will continue this wonderful legacy will be elected by the students.