Pivot Nigeria 2025: ‘Reframing the Lens’ Conjures up A Optimistic Nationwide Narrative

Pivot Nigeria: Reframing the Lens is a nationwide thought management platform created to reset Nigeria’s fame agenda. Powered by HighStakes Public Relations Professionals (HighStakes PR Professionals), Pivot Nigeria catalyses dialogue to encourage delight, amplify genuine narratives, and co-create a stronger, extra balanced Nigeria narrative. The inaugural Pivot Nigeria Convention held not too long ago, introduced collectively thought leaders, innovators, journalists, entrepreneurs and youth to emphasise the pressing want for Nigerians to personal and form Nigeria’s narrative. The convention blended high-impact keynotes, panels and hands-on co-creation labs to encourage motion.

Urging attendees to turn out to be ambassadors of fact and optimism for Nigeria, Pivot Nigeria convener, Victoria Uwadoka-Anyianuka set the tone: “We’re not right here to complain or to lament; we’re right here to reframe the lens on how we see ourselves as Nigerians. Altering how others see us begins with how we current and symbolize ourselves. Our mission is to problem the prevailing narratives, to highlight genuine tales, and to co-create a story that displays Nigeria’s true story.”

The conviction that Nigerians should first change how they see themselves earlier than on the lookout for exterior validation echoed all through the day, from the keynote and plenary classes to the co-creation labs. The convention centered on tradition as capital, who tells our story and why it issues, reconciling criticism with dedication, and the function of the media in altering the narrative.

Mr. Richard Mofe-Damijo, Nigerian actor, lawyer, filmmaker, and cultural icon popularly referred to as RMD spoke concerning the paradoxes of Nigeria: “Nigeria is a ravishing nation. It’s a nice nation. On the one hand, it might probably frustrate you to the purpose the place you’re feeling like ‘I’m getting out.’ However alternatively, it may give you a lot that you simply’ll be questioning why it took you so lengthy to unlock the keys that offer you entrance to the bountiful alternatives that you simply discover in Nigeria.”

He added that Nigeria, as a rustic, wants to return to the drafting board, to see who we’re, “It’s when you’ve articulated who you might be that your folks can see.”

On his half, Mr. Emeka Mba, Founder and CEO of AfiaTV mentioned, “Who tells your story and the way it’s instructed is commonly how you might be seen. Too usually, our tales are instructed by outsiders. Constructing inclusive nationwide narratives, constant cultural diplomacy, and deliberate insurance policies to rebuild belief are important to shaping how the world perceives us. If you happen to have a look at rising information platforms like AfiaTV and Information Central, there’s a deliberate editorial route, a recognition of the facility the media wields, and the obligation it has to venture balanced, correct, and accountable portrayals of Nigeria, significantly to worldwide audiences.”

Talking in the identical vein, Rosemary Egabor-Afolahan, Director, Industrial and Communications, Information Central TV mentioned, “The story of Nigeria, in all its complexity, braveness and brilliance, should not be instructed by others, by means of filters of worry or overseas bias. It should be instructed by us: boldly, responsibly, and fully. For much too lengthy, the picture mirrored of Nigeria has been distorted, lowered to the cliches of battle, corruption, illness, and despair.”

Emphasizing the essential function of the media in altering the narrative, Rosemary added, “At Information Central TV, we took a stand. We selected to vary the narrative not by ignoring the challenges, however by contextualizing them, by highlighting progress alongside issues, and most significantly, by amplifying voices which are too usually silenced and neglected.”

Pivot Nigeria convention individuals transformed concepts into motion within the co-creation labs and proffered options: reclaim Nigeria’s story by means of citizen motion; promote balanced, indigenous storytelling; embed civic schooling and nationwide values at school curricula; leverage inventive industries (movie, music, style, tech) as soft-power engines; push for stronger accountability in governance; and scale Pivot Nigeria by means of campus ambassadors and group chapters to maintain consciousness concerning the forex of fame as capital.

Nneka Isaac-Moses, Meche Isaac-Moses, Nina Anyianuka, Temitope Aina, and Nneamaka Nwadei highlighted narrative energy as a software of diplomacy, commerce, and cohesion, urging collective motion by the media and all stakeholders to reclaim the Nigeria story.

The “Pivot Nigeria: Reframing the Lens” initiative is a name for residents, creatives, media homes  authorities establishments, the personal sector and the diaspora to interrogate and reframe their presentation and illustration of Nigeria, and to make use of their on a regular basis platforms (together with social media) responsibly to replicate a balanced, genuine Nigeria narrative.

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About Pivot Nigeria:
“Pivot Nigeria: Reframing the Lens” is a nationwide thought-leadership platform created to reset
Nigeria’s fame agenda. Powered by HighStakes Public Relations Professionals (HighStakes PR
Professionals), Pivot Nigeria catalyses dialogue to encourage delight, amplify genuine narratives, and
co-create a stronger, extra balanced nationwide narrative
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