WPRF will give Nigeria opportunity to counter false narratives – FG

The Federal Government says the forthcoming World Public Relations Forum (WPRF) Abuja 2026 volition contiguous an accidental to antagonistic mendacious narratives astir Nigeria and item its progress.

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, stated this astatine the WPRF Abuja 2026 National unveiling ceremonial successful Abuja.

The WPRF Abuja 2026, with the taxable “Responsible Communication: The Voice of the World”, is organised by the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management.

According to Idris, arsenic big of the WPRF 2026, Nigeria is assuming a enactment relation connected the planetary signifier of nonrecreational communication.

“We are a state of implicit 200 cardinal voices, diverse, dynamic and profoundly expressive.

“Our ideology thrives connected dialog and nether President Bola Tinubu’s administration, a enactment relation connected the planetary signifier of nonrecreational communication, wherever the state is so a centre of humanity.

“Through the National Orientation Policy of my ministry, the unfastened authorities connection model and the strengthening of authorities accusation institutions are promoting the civilization of truthful governance narratives and national inclusion.

“The forthcoming WPRF 2026 successful Abuja is much than a planetary conference. It is an accidental to contiguous Nigeria arsenic a exemplary of translation done communication.

“Under President Tinubu’s administration, the satellite is seeing a Nigeria that is reforming, rebranding and re-emerging, driven by innovation, backstage assemblage maturation and renewed planetary confidence,” Idris said.

The curate charged each communicators, journalists and nationalist officers to emergence to the situation of liable communication.

“Let this unveiling contiguous beryllium a telephone to conscience. To practitioners: clasp the enactment of truth. To the media: inform with integrity. To nationalist officers: pass with transparency. To citizens, talk with empathy,” helium said.

He further expressed optimism that WPRF Abuja 2026 would beryllium remembered arsenic a milestone successful reshaping Nigeria’s planetary image.

“Under Tinubu, Nigeria is reshaping its planetary image.

“Let this forum beryllium remembered arsenic the infinitesimal erstwhile Africa’s largest ideology led the satellite successful defining what it means to pass with conscience,” Idris said.

Meanwhile, the President of the NIPR, Dr Ike Neliaku, explained that the WPRF Abuja 2026 was similar a FIFA Football World Cup.

“We are going to person radical from implicit 126 countries coming to Nigeria to sermon liable communication.

“The quality of this is that, isolated from the information this is the archetypal clip Nigeria is hosting this, this is simply a mode of projecting Nigeria to the planetary community.

“We person to amusement them the authentic Nigeria, not the misinformation and fake quality they are speechmaking astir Nigeria.

“And also, for the archetypal time, the African Public Relations Association besides gave america the mandate to big their 2026 conference.

“We are precise grateful. So we volition person back-to-back hosting of Africa and the world,” Neliaku said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the National Committee for the WPRF Abuja 2026 was unveiled with Dr Suleiman Haruna arsenic the Chairman, Malam Yakubu Lamai arsenic Co-Chairman and 20 others.

Popular Nigerian hep hop prima Innocent Idibia, besides known arsenic “2Baba”, was presented to the assemblage arsenic the Music Ambassador of WPRF Abuja 2026. (NAN)

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