L-R: Dr. Ike Neliaku on behalf of the President of the Institute, Mukhtar Sirajo and Director of Public Affairs of NCC, Reuben Muoka |
The Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, (NIPR) plans to reveal a strategy for a multi-ethnic and multi-sectoral strategy to be consummated through a National Integration Summit slated for August
After a nationwide consultation with different interest
groups, a four-man council team of the institute, led by Dr. Ike Neliaku on
behalf of the President of the Institute, Mukhtar Sirajo, visited the Head
Office of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), to intimate the
Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Commission, Prof. Umar Danbatta, about the
steps already taken to ensure that the unique summit comes to fruition.
According to Neliaku, the key objective of the visit was to
see how the Institute will leverage communication to address security concerns,
enhance peace building, and facilitate national integration. He described NCC
as one of the pillars of Nigeria’s national integration efforts adding that the
institute believes the Commission will partner in the successful hosting of the
“Citizens Summit on National Integration, Peace and Security (CSNIPS)” which
takes place in Abuja, from 23rd to 24th August 2022.
In the processes leading to the summit, Neliaku disclosed
that the Institute had organized zonal dialogue sessions with leaders of
thought, representing ethnic and institutional interests, and had met with a
diverse group of state and non-state actors as a way of rallying all
stakeholders to support the project and participate in the implementation of
its resolutions. “The central objective of this summit is to emplace a new way
of re-inventing citizenship,” he said, emphasizing that the proposed summit
fits into NIPR’s doctrinal professional practice principles to build and
maintain an image, relationship, peace, and harmony.
NIPR President also applauded the Nigerian Communications
Commission under Danbatta’s leadership, for exceptionally upholding the legal
prescriptions of the Institute in appointing professionals in the management of
its public relations activities, which also aligns with professional principles
and practice of public relations as prescribed in the NIPR Charter. “This
explains why the NIPR is always enthusiastic in partnering with NCC whenever
the opportunity presents itself, and we look forward to NCC’s support towards
the successful hosting of the Summit,” he said.
Director of Public Affairs of NCC, Reuben Muoka, who
received the team on behalf of Prof. Danbatta, said the purpose of the visit is
striking to the disposition of the Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission
who admires every effort that will contribute to national integration. He
promised that the Commission will certainly partner in this particularly
“impressive, seminal and laudable project” in the context of the proposed
Summit.
Muoka said the EVC of NCC, holds NIPR in high esteem, “which
is the reason he cherished the visit and asked me to receive you in his stead.
You can rest assured that he will be positive to this request for collaboration
for the good of the nation”.
The NCC spokesman said he was particularly delighted that
NIPR, to which he belongs, would be the first that he was receiving on
resumption as the Director of Public Affairs at the Commission.
He told the council delegation comprising of Neliaku, Brig.
Gen. Sani Usman (retd), Lady Chinenye Ihuoma, and Ohaeri Osondu, all Fellows
and Council Members of NIPR, that the Commission will continue to collaborate
with the NIPR for direction in best practices in corporate relations.
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