Modion Communications, one of Nigeria’s fast growing Public Relations and Communications solutions providing agency, has been named ‘Outstanding Young PR agency of the Year’ at the 2017 edition of the Marketing Edge Brands & Advertising Excellence Awards, on Friday June 17, 2017, in Lagos.
Marketing Edge is a leading media platform that provides insights into happenings and developments within the brands, marketing and advertising industries in Nigeria. It organises an annual Brands & Advertising Excellence Awards to celebrate agencies, brands, media personalities and media establishments and the marketing communications industry. One of the categories is dedicated to celebrating young agencies in Public Relations (PR), Media Independence, Digital Marketing and Advertising.
Modion Communications was singled out as Nigeria’s ‘Outstanding Young PR agency of the Year’ 2017 for its creativity, market dominance and penetration in spite of the prevalent economic recession in the country. The 2016 edition of this highly coveted category was awarded to Red Media, run by Chude Jideonwo and Adebola Williams.
Speaking on the achievement, the Chief Executive Officer of Modion Communications, Mr. Odion Aleobua, said the award is a testament to the agency’s audacious and resilient drive to set new trends in public relations and marketing communications solutions industry. “We may be young but we’ve already touched brands that are way older. We have provided advisory services to well established brands and corporates who worked with us based on our demonstrable capacity to execute new approaches towards creating, maintaining and amplifying narratives that optimises their brand equity and market performance”.
Aleobua added that “this award is one of many more to come. We are confident that our capacity to create novel ideas, strategies and tactics will not only elevate our clients’ brand profiles, but will also be celebrated by industry watchers. Most importantly, we have been spurred by this recognition to do more in actualisation of our vision of an African dominance through superior, innovative, creative, cutting-edge communications solutions to individuals, small businesses, large corporates, industries and government agencies”.
Since establishment in 2015, Modion Communications has handled top brands, individuals, small businesses, government agencies amongst others providing cutting-edge communications solutions, marketing activations, media engagement, crisis communications, stakeholders engagement among others. Its clientele includes The Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF), Leadway Assurance Company Limited, Oando PLC, Rain Oil Limited, Platform Petroleum, Propetrol Limited and Nepal Oil & Gas Services. Others include Bayer Environmental Science, and Pest Control Association of Nigeria (PECAN).
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In 2016, Modion Communications successfully organised one of the largest oil and gas conferences in Nigeria for the Nigerian Gas Association (NGA). The international conference had in attendance, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Kacalla Baru, and CEOs of leading oil and gas corporates such as Chevron, NLNG, Total E&P, Seplat to mention but a few.
