The Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) has honoured the main engineering development firm, Julius Berger Nigeria PLC, as essentially the most influential company voice.
The credit score got here on the Nationwide Spokespersons Awards 2025, which concluded the lately held 2nd Nigeria Spokespersons Summit collectively organised by the Institute and the Federal Ministry of Data and Nationwide Orientation in Abuja.
Saying the award, the Chairman of the Awards Planning Committee, Mr. Segun McMedal, mentioned Julius Berger joined two different company organisations to obtain the celebrated recognition as influential company voices within the 2024/25 12 months below assessment.
He listed the adjudication standards to incorporate the flexibility to speak clearly, concisely, and successfully, guaranteeing messages are simply understood, possessing abilities in tailoring communication to totally different media channels whereas sustaining message integrity, frequency and high quality of media engagements, together with interviews, press conferences, press releases, and op-eds, in addition to the flexibility to craft compelling narratives that successfully talk the organisation’s aims and achievements.
Moreover, the popularity, he added was based mostly on proficiency in leveraging rising communication channels, instruments, and applied sciences to reinforce engagement and outreach, in addition to NIPR’s analysis of how successfully the organisation’s Public Relations (PR) aims had been met, measuring the general success and affect of communication efforts.
Thus, being media -savvy and the organisation’s visibility within the media, story telling and framing capacity, using new applied sciences, and the end result and affect of the hassle, amongst others, helped in figuring out the affect of our company voices of selection, he mentioned.
In a associated growth, Julius Berger’s Media Relations Supervisor, Emmanuel Isibor, received NIPR’s excellent Spokesperson, Disaster Administration, (Personal Sector) Award on the occasion. Citing the rise and constructive visibility of Julius Berger all through 2024 until date within the media, despite the challenges within the sector and most people, in addition to the regularity of the organisation’s media reviews throughout print, broadcast, and on-line platforms, McMedal mentioned the Award was very deserving, urging all winners to proceed to reinforce their professionalism within the discharge of their duties as worthy ambassadors of the Institute.
In his transient remarks forward of the Awards ceremony, President of the Institute, Dr. Ike Neliaku mentioned, the summit results in the awards.
“That is a part of the entire means of recognising spokespersons so that you could have a voice. You’ve got a platform for your self. Not solely do you come collectively to work together, study, and perceive the brand new issues happening within the business, however it’s also so that you can showcase yourselves by way of disaster,” he mentioned.
Declaring the occasion open on the primary day of the Summit, the Minister of Data and Nationwide Orientation, Mohammed Idris, described the NIPR as a compelling imprimatur of professionalism in Nigeria’s public relations follow.
The Speaker of the Home of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, emphasised the pressing want for moral management communication to strengthen Nigeria’s democracy, saying, “after 25 years of uninterrupted democracy, Nigeria has reached some extent the place our communication of management and coverage should replicate the maturity of our democratic course of.”
He warned that the unfold of misinformation undermines democratic values, including that, public relations shouldn’t be seen as spin or propaganda however as a car for reality. When communication is rooted in integrity, residents are empowered to make knowledgeable selections and maintain leaders accountable.
The Minister of Data, Alh. Mohammed Idris Malagi, his predecessor, Alh. Lai Mohammed, former Ogun State Governor, Chief Segun Osoba, former Minister of Tradition and Tourism, Chief Edem Duke, and the Chairman, Home Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Hon. Akintunde Rotimi Jr, had been among the many contributors on the two-day occasion hosted by the President of the NIPR.
