Can APCON Truly Regulate Social Media Advertisement In Nigeria

Daily Law Tips (Tip 432)by Onyekachi Umah, Esq., LLM.
ACIArb(UK)

CAN APCON TRULY REGULATE SOCIAL MEDIA ADVERTISEMENT IN
NIGERIA.

The Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON) was
established by an Act of parliament, known as the Advertising
Practitioners (Registration etc) Act of 1988. According to the law,
APCON was set up to regulate and control the practise of
advertisement by Advertising Practitioners. The long title and
short title of the Act are clear on this as well as its section 1.
Hence, any person or business into professional advertising must be
bound and regulated by APCON, and this also applies to
person/business doing so on social media. Like the websites that
are primarily into advertisement business or Facebook pages and
Instagram.
Note that this does not apply to persons and business that in the
course of their businesses/ services have so Advertisements of
their products and services.

My authorities are;

Sections 1, 20 and 30 of the Advertising Practitioners
(Registration etc) Act of 1988
MIC Royal Limited v. APCON (Suit No. CA/L/1140/2016 – Judgment
delivered on July 5, 2018) CITATION: (2018) LPELR-45314(CA),
APCON v. The Registered Trustees of International Covenant
Ministerial Council & Ors. (2010) LPELR (CA) 3630)

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