NIPR names BrandCrunch Nigeria winner of LaPRIGA PR Magazine Award
BrandCrunch Nigeria, Nigeria’s premier marketing news portal has been selected for the coveted LaPRIGAPR Magazine (Online) of the Year Award by the Lagos chapter of the Nigeria Institute of Public Relations.
A letter tagged tagged: “PR Magazine of the Year (Online) BrandCrunch” issued on behalf of the association and signed by the Chairman and General Secretary, Olusegun McMedal and Thelma Okoh respectively, and made available to the management of the BrandCrunch reads in part:
“On behalf of the Executive Council of Lagos NIPR, we are very pleased to announce that BrandCrunch Nigeria has been awarded the coveted LaPRIGA PR Magazine of the Year Award (Online) award”.
According to the letter, the award is the highest recognition of excellence in journalism.
The letter continues, “We acknowledge your blog’s commitment to upholding the highest professional standard in publishing and journalism that informs, entertains and educates engaging minds, building relationships, transforming marketing decisions and impacting the future”.
BrandCrunch is scheduled to be presented with the award plague at the prestigious LaPRIGA dinner slated for The Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos on Thursday December 21, 2017 by 6 p.m.
Reacting to the award, O’Lekan Babatunde, Publisher, BrandCrunch Nigeria on behalf of the board of editors and management of the publication said that the recognition is the result of hard-work, innovation and to nudge us on that at least, we are doing something right.
“It is only possible because of the unseen hands of our numerous readers, fans and visitors to the portal who help to make the portal, Nigeria’s marketing news source of first choice. It indicates that after-all hard-work pays and there is usually someone, somewhere taking note of whatever one is doing”
Inaugurated last year, the LaPRIGA award is poised to be the premier showcase that recognizes excellence in public relations practice in the Nigerian communications industry, celebrating practitioners and corporate winning projects via awards dinner to boost professionalism and more investment in the practice.
Established in 2011, BrandCrunch Nigeria has remained the revolutionary force to beat in marketing news reportage and informed industry analyses.
The online marketing news portal has also emerged a veritable thought leadership center through its high profile BrandCrunch Learning Session, a platform for the cross fertilization of ideas especially on carefully selected topical issues that can enhance growth and place the industry on the cutting edge.