Public relations practitioners particularly Press Secretary of Local Government Councils who practice without requisite qualifications now risk being jailed.
Former Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Chairman Nigeria Institute of Public relations, Rivers State Chapter, Paulinus Nsirim gave this at the sidelines of the world public relations day event on Monday at the Rivers State University.
Vice Chancellor of the Rivers State University, Prof Nlerum Okogbule , represented by the Deputy Vice Chancellor Academics, Valentine Omubo Pepple added that Organisations most times run into crisis for lack of qualified public relations experts.
The event which was organised by the Faculty of Communications and Media studies adopted the global Theme of this year’s world public relations day which ‘Harnessing the power of public relations’.
Elanhub was live at the event to monitor the activity.