Organisers announce jury presidents of Young Lions Competitions in Nigeria

Chini Productions, the Cannes Lions representatives in Nigeria and organisers of the Young Lions Competition and the Young Clients Competition have announced jury presidents for the various categories of the competitions. The jury for the Young Lions Media Competition will be headed by Mr. Tolu Ogunkoya, who is the managing director of mediaReach OMD, while Mr. Fatai Odesile, head of marketing at Grand Oak Limited, has been named as the jury president for the Young Clients Competition.

The jury for the creative categories which include the Young Lions Cyber Competition, the Young Lions Film Competition and the Young Lions Print Competition will be overseen by Mr. Colin Morris, executive creative director at LTC/JWT. The creative jury will also have the additional task of selecting winners for the 11 scholarships recently offered to Nigeria by the Miami Ad School. Each of the presidents will work with a team of professionals from across the industry that will soon be announced.

Speaking on the choice of jury presidents, the Cannes Lions representative in Nigeria, Mr. Nnamdi Ndu said “these are men who have earned the respect of the industry and have shown great support and commitment to our vision in raising industry standards. We will rely on their leadership to deliver top-notch, bias free competitions that the industry will be proud of.”

All the competitions, except the scholarship competition, are open to teams of 2 professionals from the relevant arm of the industry and the national winners will represent Nigeria in the global finals of the competitions at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity from 19 to 25 June, 2011 in France.

Entry for the Young Lions and Young Clients competitions will require employer endorsement. Event details are available from www.canneslions-ng.com. ADVAN members can also contact the association’s office for forms and details. The winners of all the competitions including the Roger Hatchuel Academy selection competition that will be moderated by the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria, APCON, will be announced at the Awards Night on the 12^th of March, 2011.