By Usman Ibn A. Lapai
Kaduna
Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) has stated that it would not relent in its efforts toward fighting quacks in the profession and fish them out.
Its national vice-president, Malam Mukhtar Sirajo, disclosed this recently at the maiden edition of the orientation and documentation of newly registered members of the Kaduna state chapter of the Institute.
Sirajo noted that the aim of the orientation and documentation “is to make the new members knows what need to be done and to re-brand the profession so as to ensure that quacks are fished out,” adding that “even right now, there is somebody who a judge remanded in Suleja prison.”
He said in order to address the problem, “the Institute is organising training and re-training, because we should be able ask anyone who is already practising of his licence; this is why the Institute is giving new members windows to regularise.”
Earlier, in his welcome address, the chairman of the Institute in the state, Mohammed El-Nafaty, said the “main aims of the programme are to acquaint the participants on the key objectives and ethics of the
profession; to enrich their knowledge and capacities on the techniques and skills of public speaking and communication as major tools of public relations.”
The Guest Lecturer, a former Deputy Register of the NIPR, Dr. Ben Ahiante, in a lecture titled: “Communication Crises Situation, Role of Public Relations,” said
in identifying threats to an organisation and its stakeholders, public relations officers should adopt methods to deal with the threats, adding that “such crisis requires decision to be made within a short time
