Nigeria's new ad leader

The Advertising Agencies Association of Nigeria (AAAN) last Friday elected the Prima Garnet Ogilvy MD, Lolu Akinwunmi, as its new president for the next two years. Akinwunmi takes over the leadership of the association from DDB's Enyinanya Odigbo. The rest of the AAAN board include: Funmi Onabolu of Bates/Cosse as vice president, Tunde Thani as treasurer, Mich Maduekwe of LTC/JWT as publicity secretary and Sunkanmi Ajiboye as assistant publicity secretary. Erhabor Emokpae of Lowe Lintas, Kayode Oluwasona of Insight/ Grey and Shehu Agboola also of LTC/JWT and Longely Evru emerged as ex-officio members. Akinwunmi promised to raise the bar on professionalism within the period of his leadership of the AAAN.