Information Commissioner, Directors and 34 others become APCON members
About thirty-seven persons, including the Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Comrade Ini Ememobong, have been formally inducted as Associate Members of the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria, APCON.
Others are two management staff in the Ministry, Mrs Blessing Urua and Mrs Grace Akpan- Director, Information, and Public Relations.
The induction of the newly registered practitioners was performed by the Chief Executive Officer/Registrar of APCON, Dr. Olalekan Fadolapo, on Friday, at the end of a 3-Day Executive Membership Registration and Induction Ceremony, held at the Havilah Towers and Suites, Uyo.
The Registrar, charged the new inductees to be good ambassadors of the advertising profession, adding that with their certification, they where new free to explore opportunities in the industry without the fear of harassment.
” With your certification, you now have the legal rights to establish a full-fledged advertising agency, and explore opportunities in outdoor advertising and other independent media space “.
Also speaking, the Director of Registration, Joe-Eugene Onuorah, said, the programme was an alternative procedure for admitting people into the profession, who did not have the prescribed academic qualification.
” The registration is based on having acquired the basic experience over many years of practice. The procedure required that they are subjected to two days of intensive training to acquaint them with basic principles that they need to understand to be able to practice more professionally and responsibly, and that is what we have done since last Wednesday “.
On the choice of Uyo as the location for the ceremony, Onourah explained that the exercise was organised to cover the South-South and the South-East region, and Uyo being one of the states in the region, was selected with the hope that it would avail individuals in the areas the opportunity to get inducted.
Meanwhile, Mr. Idris Madabaje, a senior staff of the Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Information and Strategy, and a participant said with the certification, he was now an all-rounder in the field of mass communication, thus ready to explore more opportunities in the sector.
The event which commenced Wednesday, 6th, and lasted through Friday, July 8th, 2022, had as its highpoint, the administration of the oath of membership to the newly registered practitioners.
