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Arme Sorenson
Marriott International has announced the sad passing of Arne Sorenson,its President and CEO on February 15,2021.Sorenson succumbed to cancer after two years of fighting the disease.
A Morriot statement said:”It is with profound sadness that Marriott International announces that Arne M. Sorenson, President and CEO, unexpectedly passed away on February 15, 2021.”
In May 2019, the company had announced that Sorenson had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.Then,on February 2, 2021, Marriott announced that Sorenson would temporarily reduce his schedule to facilitate more demanding treatment for pancreatic cancer.
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Steve Baba=Eko, managing director/CEO of advertising agency,X3M ideas has been elected President of the Advertising Association of Nigeria, AAAN , the group of advertising agencies and professionals in Nigeria.
Baba-Eko election was announced at the virtual 47th Annual General Meeting of AAAN, held on Thursday ,July 2 ,2020.It was not clear how Baba-Eko emerged president of AAAN, although it appears
That he was unopposed for the position. Baba-Eko who has served the association as Publicity Secretary and until his election as Vice President had made public his intention to be the association’s president few days before the AGM in a tweet June 24.
The new AAAN president had earlier promised to give the association more visibility and raise the recognition of the LAIF advertising awards and festival internationally.
Baba-Eko graduated with a BA degree in Drama form the Ahmadu Bello University in 1994.He subsequently started a career in advertising at MC&A (defunct) where he worked as a copywriter.
After over a decade in the industry, he became Creative director of then new agency !$! Worldwide(part of the then Prima Garnet Ogilvy group) in September,2005. He left 7 years later, 2012 to found X3M Ideas, where he is CEO and Chief Creative Officer. He has worked on several brands including Zain airtel and Etisalat brands.
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By Sanya Ademiluyi
Nestle Milo’s ready-to-drink product that shook the school children’s lunch market about
three years ago has returned to the market. Its return howbeit quietly was noticed about a
fortnight ago in major cities round the country, especially in Lagos, Ibadan, Abuja and
Port Harcourt.
The Milo RTD had shaken the market three years ago when it was first introduced
Into the market .It was the first attempt by Nestle Milo to put the chocolate beverage
into the ready to-drink market segment dominated by fruit juices, fizzy drinks and yoghurt
and some other frozen beverages.
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Okusaga
By Grace Oputa
Bolaji Okusaga who has been managing director of Quadrant MSL ,a leading Nigerian PR agency has quit his position.The erstwhile head of Quadrant MSL which is a part of the Troyka Holding/Publicis Group is starting up his own PR agency known as Precise .According to a public post made on Facebook by Okusaga himself earlier this month, ”after 10 years at Quadrant, it is time to move on” he says.
Okusaga has stayed longer than most of the PR agency’s heads before him .His tenure has also seen some turbulence especially several changes in the agency’s global affiliations, mostly due to turbulent too at its parent ,Troyka/Insight Comms parent.
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Late Achebe
by Niyi Adekanye
Global internet giant, Google has honoured late Nigerian literary icon, Chinua Achebe on the anniversary of his87 th birthday, November16,2017 with a Google doodle. Achebe the revered icon of African literature was paid respects of its homepage by Google, drawing praise and accolades by many Nigerians and Africans on the continent and beyond.
In a tweet on the same day, Google Africa said: ”Today we celebrate Chinua Achebe ‘s 87th birthday. Considered by many to be the father of modern African Literature Chinua Achebe has touched many lives with his words”.#GoogleDoodle.