NIPR Canvasses Solutions to Nigeria Food Security
“Food Security: From Policy Papers to Public plates – Public Relations Imperatives “ was the central theme of conversations at the 2026 edition of the Nigeria Public Relations Week ( NPRW) event hosted by Kaduna Chapter of Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR).
Code named “Croc City” 2026, the Week long carnival like event was to serve in intent as precursor to World Public Relations Forum, a global event slated to be hosted in Nigeria sometimes later on in the year.
It was the gathering of the who is who from both the public and private sector establishments of the Nigeria’s economy bringing together over two thousand stakeholders, professionals and government officials.
By design, the the event was targeted to deploy strategic communications towards addressing national economic issues and challenges that includes the general insecurity and Food Security challenge that aims to align with agricultural policies and economic stability initiatives of the current government.
The Chairman, NPRW Organizing Committee, Yomi Badejo Okusanya, while fielding reporters questions on a television media chat recently, provided detailed insights as to why the institute focused on the significant subject on Food Security.
According to the foremost PR professional also doubles as Group Managing Director, CMC LLP, Food insecurity in Nigeria had reached alarming stage of been existential threat.
As such the institute believe that addressing the Food Security challenge was the best starting point of intervention in addressing the debacle.
“You will agree with me that without Food Security, there is actually no security,. The basic form of security, if you ask me, is the ability to feed ourselves. As they say, a hungry man is an angry man and so, a hungry nation equates to a very angry nation.”
“So we thought that we have Security challenges in Nigeria and how can we get involved , how can we intervene, let’s start from Food Security because if we are able to feed ourselves, I believe a greater part of our problem has been solved,”
“When you look at inflation in itself, I am not an economist, but from what I can see, Food Inflation accounts for about the minimum hal, if not 60 percent of general inflation. So when we talk about the Theme in detail we can explain to you that we found out that there is a gap between Policy Paper and the implementation which is why we said , Policy Paper to Public plates, : The Imperatives of Public Relations. “
“ We realized that there is a gap between the Policy formulation and policy implementation which affects the results. Looking further, we realized that communication plays a significant role in transiting from Policy Paper to Public plates,”
“There is a huge huge role for Public communication in that, and that is where we situated ourselves, that’s what gave rise to our Theme. which was exhaustively delineated upon in Kaduna.
The gathering was the third annual edition of the Public Relations Week event and it marked a significant focus on northern Nigeria’s development deploying strategic communications.
