Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State, President of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, NIPR, Ike Neliaku, and different stakeholders, on the weekend, eulogized the founding father of DAAR Communications, Raymond Dokpesi, for his service to humanity.
The duo spoke on the 2nd Raymond Dokpesi Diamond Lecture organised by the NIPR in Abuja.
The governor, who lamented that some reward singers of former President Muhammadu Buhari turned in opposition to him after his tenure, hailed the late media mogul for his reliable life-style.
The governor additionally lauded Dokpesi for establishing the nation’s first non-public radio and tv stations regardless of the army rule at the moment.
In response to him, “It was an period when practically the whole lot was managed by the federal government.”
On his half, the President of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, NIPR, Dr. Ike Neliaku, hailed the late Dokpesi, describing him as a visionary who remodeled communication in Nigeria.
In response to Neliaku, Dokpesi lived his life as a pathfinder who broke boundaries in media, democratized info, and gave voice to the unvoiced.
“On the coronary heart of Dr. Dokpesi’s imaginative and prescient was a philosophy that aligns deeply with the soul of our occupation, public relations as service to society.
“He understood that communication is not only in regards to the media; it’s about which means. It’s about connecting folks to fact, leaders to residents, and nations to the world,” he mentioned.
