Omoniyi Ibietan joins board of African Regional Council of Global Alliance for PR and comm. management
By Oluwaseyi Lawal
DR. Omoniyi Ibietan has joined the African Regional Council of Global Alliance for Public Relations and communication management as a member of the board.
He is currently the Head of Media Relations at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Secretary General of African Public Relations Association.
OMONIYI P. IBIETAN is an advocate, journalist, writer, and expert in communication and multi-stakeholder relationship management.
He previously served as a regional media researcher for the Freedom House Nigeria Project and was Special Media Adviser to Nigeria’s Federal Minister of Information and Communication during the Fourth Republic, where he played a key role in advancing the use of new media in public communication.
Ibietan holds a diploma in journalism with distinction from the Moscow-based International Institute of Journalism. He earned a BA in Communication Arts from the University of Uyo and an MA in Communication & Language Arts from the University of Ibadan, both in Nigeria. Additionally, he obtained a Ph.D. in Communication from North-West University in South Africa. He is an IP3-certified regulation specialist and has completed a mini-MBA in telecommunications from NEOTELIS in Paris.
His academic interests include communication theories, media and society, particularly political communication, communication management, and the philosophical underpinnings of communication as they relate to democracy and freedom.
Ibietan is a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, and a member of the African Council for Communication Education and the International Institute of Communications (IIC), which serves as the world’s only policy discussion platform for the converged communications industry. He is also on the faculty at the Rome Business School in Italy.
The Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management is the confederation of the world’s major PR and communication management associations, organisations and institutions, representing over 360,000 practitioners, academics and students across 126 countries worldwide.
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