The National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN), has announced plans to hold an Evening of Tributes in honour of the institute’s immediate past president, Chief Lugard Aimiuwu, who passed on recently.
The institute in a statement signed by its Acting Registrar, Mr.Sidney Ogodo, stated that the event which will hold at the institute’s corporate head office in Shangisha, Lagos, on Friday, June 26, would witness marketing practitioners and other stakeholders from within and outside the nation’s marketing environment coming to pay homage to the memory of the late NIMN boss, who many believed had succeeded in
the institute and enhanced the status of marketing practice in Nigeria.
While calling all marketing practitioners and other stakeholders to send in their tributes to info@nimn.com.ng before the date, the institute added no efforts would be spared in ensuring that the memory of the departed NIMN boss remains etched in the sands of time.
It will be recalled that Aimiuwu, who was President and Chairman Governing Council of the institute between September 2008 and August 2013, died at the early hours of Friday, April 17, this year at 68.
The NIMN boss, who held a degree in Business Administration from the University of Lagos and with the university prize for his academic performance, was also President and Chairman of Nigeria Institute of Management between 2003 and 2005.
At a time, he was President of the University of Lagos Alumni Association and also chaired the UNILAG Development/Endowment Board for a period of five years. He was also a council member, University Governing Council between 2001 and 2005.
