Date: 24 – 26 February 2008
Venue: Le Meridien Hotel (now Nicon Luxury) Abuja
Host: TIMEX, NIPR & FAPRA

TIMEX, FAPRA AND NIPR ORGANIZE GLOBAL COMMUNICATION SUMMIT:

Timex Communications Limited, a Lagos based public relations agency in partnership with the Federation of African Public Relations Associations (FAPRA) and Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) has scheduled a Global Communication Summit for February 2008.

The summit, which President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is expected to declare open, will take place at Le Meridien Hotel (now Nicon Luxury) Abuja on February 24 – 26, and plans to bring presidents/chairmen of international public relations associations and their African counterparts to examine the great potentials of communication in sensitizing Nigerians and Africans in general on the anti-corruption war.

The theme of the Global Communication Summit is Building a Corruption-Free Society: the Challenges of Communication and it is in support of the Federal Government’s war against corruption.

Date: 28 April – 3 May, 2008
Venue: Golden Tulip Hotel, Kumasi, Ghana
Host: IPR (GHANA) & FAPRA
Theme: “CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY – GLOBAL TRENDS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS IMPLICATIONS

Sub-Themes
· Corporate Social Responsibility or Corporate Social Investment?
· Global Trends in Corporate Social Investment practice
· Corporate Social Investment – Case Studies in Africa
· Corporate Social Investment – Public Relations Implications
· Modern Communication Tools and Techniques for Corporate Social Investment

The President of Ghana, President John Agyekum Kufuor has lent his support to the programme.

Date: 23 - 24 June 2008
Event & Venue:World Public Relations Festival and Conference, London