By: Admin
Chairman, Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Rivers State Chapter, Pastor Paulinus Nsirim has appealed to Public Relations practitioners to set the agenda inorder to promote Nigeria’s lost values.
He described Public Relations practitioners as stakeholders that have the mental ability to reposition the eroding reputation and battered image of the country through molding of the people’s opinion to see hardwork as a way out of the woods.
Nsirim who is also the Commissioner for Information and Communication in Rivers State, spoke at the October general meeting of the Rivers Chapter, Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, in Port Harcourt on Thursday, insisting that Nigeria has lost her values to reward merit over mediocrity and falsehood.
Nsirim said: “the pillars of hardwork and merit that held the nation together are no longer there. No reward for truth and efficiency.
“Therefore, as Public Relations practitioners, we need to set the agenda to correct these anomalies by molding public opinion to the direction we want the country to go”.
He enjoined practitioners to get involve in political activities to make their voices to be heard.
Earlier in his speech during the PR moment, Parry Saroh Benson, while speaking on Public Relations implications in the celebration of Nigeria’s sixtieth independence anniversary, argued that PR practitioners should also join in the agitations for restructuring of the country along economic viability, this, according to him would put an end to some of the challenges facing the nation inorder to achieve sustainable development.
