{"id":173013,"date":"2025-08-08T11:56:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/arcon-warns-parties-against-unlicensed-advertisers"},"modified":"2025-08-08T13:20:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:20:05","slug":"arcon-warns-parties-against-unlicensed-advertisers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/arcon-warns-parties-against-unlicensed-advertisers","title":{"rendered":"ARCON Warns Parties Against Unlicensed Advertisers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Ahead of the August 30th Local Government Council elections in Rivers State, political parties have been urged to strictly adhere to advertising regulations and laws during their electioneering campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement obtained by journalists on Thursday, the Chairman of the Advertising Practitioners\u2019 Association, Port Harcourt Chapter, Dike Bekwele, advised political parties and their candidates to ensure that all campaign materials are submitted to the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria, ARCON, for validation through registered practitioners.<\/p>\n<p>Bekwele cautioned against patronising unlicensed operators, describing it as a violation of the ARCON Act of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed the importance of engaging only registered advertising practitioners who can facilitate the necessary clearance from the regulators before the commencement of campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Ahead of the August 30th Local Government Council elections in Rivers State, political parties have been urged to strictly adhere to advertising regulations and laws during their electioneering campaigns. In a statement obtained by journalists on Thursday, the Chairman of the Advertising Practitioners\u2019 Association, Port Harcourt Chapter, Dike Bekwele, advised political parties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":173012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[11128,18302,254,18303],"class_list":["post-173013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-arcon","tag-lg-pools","tag-nigeria","tag-rivers-lg-pools"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ARCON Warns Parties Against Unlicensed Advertisers - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ahead of the August 30th Local Government Council elections in Rivers State, political parties have been urged to strict ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/arcon-warns-parties-against-unlicensed-advertisers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ARCON Warns Parties Against Unlicensed Advertisers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ahead of the August 30th Local Government Council elections in Rivers State, political parties have been urged to strict ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/arcon-warns-parties-against-unlicensed-advertisers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-08T10:56:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-08T12:20:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754643110.516663.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/arcon-warns-parties-against-unlicensed-advertisers#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/arcon-warns-parties-against-unlicensed-advertisers\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"ARCON Warns Parties Against Unlicensed Advertisers\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-08T10:56:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-08T12:20:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/arcon-warns-parties-against-unlicensed-advertisers\"},\"wordCount\":134,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/arcon-warns-parties-against-unlicensed-advertisers#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754643110.516663.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ARCON\",\"LG Pools\",\"Nigeria\",\"Rivers LG Pools\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/arcon-warns-parties-against-unlicensed-advertisers#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/arcon-warns-parties-against-unlicensed-advertisers\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/arcon-warns-parties-against-unlicensed-advertisers\",\"name\":\"ARCON Warns Parties Against Unlicensed Advertisers - 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