The corporate identity change coincided with the body’s ban on the use of foreign models and voice-over artists on Nigerian advertising materials.
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Onitsha’s Molokwu and Umunna families said their daughter, wife, mother and grandmother, Bel-Molokwu died on Wednesday, 29 June 2022, at age 67.
This followed the adoption of a motion by a Rep. Onofiok Luke (PDP-Akwa-Ibom) at Tuesday’s plenary in Abuja.
Alumona was inducted on Wednesday along with 62 other professionals into the highest cadre of advertising practice.
The endorsement was conveyed via a press statement by the Presidents of the industry practitioners on Sunday.
In a statement, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor of Lagos State, Gboyega Akosile, said; “I received with shock the news of the unexpected and painful demise of Princewill Ekwujuru, chairman Brand Journalists Association of Nigeria (BJAN), a thorough bred professional, veteran brand reporter, personal friend and colleague.
According to the release, the endorsement was given in Lagos on Saturday by the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, during a meeting with AAAN’s Executive Board.
AAAN made the call on Wednesday in Abuja during the public hearing of a bill to amend the APCON Act organised by the House Committee on Information, National Orientation, Ethics and Values.
Those worried about this “excessive” media freedom make no distinction between the media as an institution and citizens vigorously – and yes, sometimes, despicably – expressing themselves on social media.
The millionaires include: Williams F. Atinuke, a customer of Ikorodu Local Govt branch; Bello G. Amthe, a customer of Maiduguri branch and Sani Mohammed, a customer of Kura branch, Kano. Others are Okoro N. Arua, a customer of Aba Factory Road branch, Abia State; Ndidi M. Ebagua, a customer of Benin Main branch, Edo State and Ogunbowale Isola, a customer of Sokenu Road branch, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The new Director resumed as the head of the AAAN secretariat on March 8, 2021.
What informed the introduction of the AdCademy?
The idea of the Adcademy is a dream that’s about two decades in the making. If I am not mistaken, the idea was first mooted when Dr. Biodun Shobanjo was President of the AAAN. Even though I was just a junior creative then, I imagined that at the core of the idea was the imperative to broaden the talent pipeline of the industry and the need to also upskill existing talent pool of member agencies. That vision hasn’t changed even today. Rather, it has taken a much more urgent dimension because of the seismic shift caused by technology. This has totally disrupted many industries including ours. Thus, we have no choice than to launch the academy as part of our mid to long-term survival strategy.
Other 60 lucky customers who also emerged from across the six geo-political zones, won N100,000 each during the draw which held at the Bank’s headquarters in Lagos. The promo which ends in April 2021 is designed to enrich Nigerians with a N26 million pay-out
The AAAN team was led by the association’s President, Steve Babaeko.
Preparations for the maiden National Advertising Conference, have reached top gear, the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria, organisers of the conference has disclosed. APCON made the disclosure on Wednesday in Lagos at a press briefing it jointly addressed with representatives of the various industry sectoral groups.
It said: “APCON strongly condemns the advertisement, which is grossly indecent, disrespectful to Nigeria’s culture and prepared with little or no sense of social responsibility.
The Council’s position was made known in a press release signed by Ijedi Iyorha, acting Registrar and Chief Executive.
Adoke, who gave the advice at a programme organised by Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja, also warned against hate speech in political advertising and media communication.
The Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria on Wednesday advised the media to be professional in information dissemination and abide by the prevalent laws guiding political campaign advertisement.
An aspirant for the ticket of the All Progressives Congress for the 2018 Osun State governorship election, Kunle Rasheed Adegoke, popularly known as K-Rad, has dragged the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria before the Federal High Court in Osogbo in a suit marked FHC/OS/CS/39/2018.