Sunday July 30,
all roads led to Royal Event Centre, Ikeja, Lagos, venue of the prestigious
2017 Prestige Excellence Award where leaders and champions in various areas of
human Endeavour were honored and recognized. Among top Nigerians and
professionals honored at the glamorous event is an advertising practitioner
extraordinaire, Mr. Lolu Akinwunmi, Group Managing Director of Prima Garnet
Adverting, a top marketing communication group in Africa. He was honoured with an Award of Excellence for His Contributions to Advertising Industry
in Nigeria
The event is powered by Prestige International
Magazine, a fast growing celebrity journal.
According
to Mr. Wale Abiodun, Publisher of the magazine, in his speech the event was put
together to give accolades to the deserving.
Mr.
Lolu Akinwunmi , the Group CEO, Prima
Garnet, Lagos, Nigeria, a world-class advertising and marketing communication
group. Lolu, a 1980 graduate of the
University of Lagos, started his career in 1982 with Lintas where he cut an
edge for advertising and creative arts. Having worked with Lintas for six (6)
years, he moved to Promoserve Grey as Executive Director, Clients Service &
Media and in 1992, Lolu took the bull by the horns to start his own company,
Prima Garnet Communications.
Over the years,
working with his numerous associates, he has moved the company from a humble
beginning to a conglomerate, overseeing a group of companies; Prima Garnet Communications,
141 Worldwide, MediaShare, Lampost Experientials, etc. He is also on the board
of Premier Music.
Lolu has attended
several professional courses locally and out of Nigeria, amongst which are: the
Unilever African Marketing Course; Ogilvy Senior Management Programme (SMP 10),
and several local and offshore management programmes and courses in advertising
and management.
Lolu commands
depth and professionalism in the advertising industry endearing his company to
national and multinational clientele like Unilever, Coca Cola, Nestle,
Motorola, GSK, First Bank, Airtel, KLM, South African Breweries, Guinness,
Mnet/MultiChoice, Shell, etc.
As a result of his
passion for transformational change in Nigeria, Lolu was appointed in 2009 by
the then Honourable Minister of Information & Communications, Prof. Dora
Akunyili as Pioneer CEO, Nigerian Rebranding Project Business Support Group
(RPBSG) – Office of the Federal Minister of Information &
Telecommunications.
He is a Fellow of
APCON and the Nigerian Marketing Institute. He is a past President of the
Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria (AAAN) 2007 – 2009. Lolu has
presented many professional papers in marketing, advertising and general
management.
Lolu was also appointed
by President Jonathan on the 27th of September 2010 as the Chairman of the
Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria, APCON, the Parastatal under the
Ministry of Information, charged with the responsibility of supervising and
managing the advertising practice in Nigeria in all its ramifications.
Lolu loves
reading, music, amateur photography, travelling. He is married to Josephine, a
lawyer, and blessed with two boys, Tosin and Seni.
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