The Advertising Practitioners’ Council of Nigeria, APCON, has inaugurated three committees to oversee the affairs of the council. The Committees inaugurated are : Advertising Standards Panel (ASP), The Advertising Code Review Committee, and The Advertising Industry Standard of Practice (AISoP) Committee.
While inaugurating the Committees, the Registrar/Chief Executive of APCON, Olalekan Fadolapo, charged the Committees to develop appropriate strategies as well as deploy “out of the box” ideas/frameworks that will ensure that the Council fundamentally improves its regulatory mandates and service delivery.
“I am convinced that the teams we have selected will approach this assignment with all sense of responsibility and commitment, and serve as enablers for the achievement of the Council’s success. I therefore charge all heads of the Committees to ensure that they leave no stone unturned in carrying out their respective assignments.”
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He emphasized that the task before the Committees include: identifying peculiar sectoral challenges, suggest immediate and long term implementation policies, recommend action plans that will galvanize the industry and that will improve service delivery and benefit stakeholders.
The Code Review Committee and AISoP were expected to conclude their tasks within three months. He called on the entire industry to put all hands on deck to work together to make the Advertising Industry an enviable entity.
Still on strategizing and realigning its operations, the Council announced Omowunmi Owodunni as the new Chairperson of the Advertising Standards Panel (ASP) – the Statutory Panel charged with the duty of ensuring that advertisements conform to the prevailing laws of the Federation as well as the Code of advertising ethics of the advertising profession.
