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Our On-SITE programs
All our on-site training are structured under these three packages which run at different time and days of the week. The course packages are designed to suit working class and non-working class individuals, business owners, and brand and marketing, enthusiasts.
OUR CERTIFICATION
The Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) has officially accredited 02 academy Lagos to function as an ARCON EXAMINATION CENTER.
02 Academy Lagos is the first Advertising school to become an ARCON Examination centre. This implies that ADVERTISING REGULATORY COUNCIL OF NIGERIA (ARCON) will award the PDA (Professional Diploma in Advertising) certificate to candidates after the PDA exam in 02 Academy.
Our On-line programs
This is an 02 Academy certificate course where you attend specialized training tailored to address the course outline below. At the end of this training, you will be awarded the 02 Academy (TBE) Total Brand Experience certification
All our online short certificate courses are structured under these disciplines. The course packages are designed to suit working class and non-working class individuals, business owners, brand and marketing enthusiasts.
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FOUNDER
Ozone Mbanefo
Founder / Provost
Passionate, driven, and determined are a few ways to describe Ozoemena Mbanefo. With an HND in Mass Communications from the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, he has mastered the craft of art direction. With core values aimed at achieving corporate goals, his experience spans over a decade with leading advertising powerhouses; LTC/JWT, INSIGHT COMMUNICATION, DDB, TBWA, BATES COSSE, and 141Worldwide.
Ozone as he is fondly called by friends has worked on local and multinational brands like Fanta, Limca, Goldspot, Eva table water, Calypso coconut liquor, Shell, Magnum trust bank, UBA, WEMA BANK, Pale soda, Trebor peppermint, Knorr cubes, Close up, Lux Lipton, Nigerian breweries corporate, Eco bank, Legend extra stout, Diamond bank, Glo, Lg electronics, Sony, Conoil, Equitorial trust bank, Fidelity Bank, MTN, FSDH, Indomie, Nandos, Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Nigeria, UBA, Wema Bank, Etisalat, Dstv, Multichoice, British American tobacco, Cadbury corporate, Tom Tom, Cadbury bournvita, etc.
Alongside his very demanding career, he has a passion for helping and strengthening the weak. This passion drove him to create a youth empowerment NGO that is focused on putting a smile on the faces of orphans and the less privileged around us. Created in 2009, City Greeters seeks to clean the tears of some of the kids and teenage youths who do not have the same equal opportunities as some of us. This is a Non-Governmental Organization that is made up of a team of upwardly mobile male-female professionals who believe that the real essence of life is to live life to give life to other lives.
His strong faith and belief in others have always been his driving force and source of inspiration.
With a clear understanding of the importance of human capacity building and personal development he decided to go the extra mile to empower a larger scale of the Nigerian youth populace. He assembled a team of advertising industry experts to start a 16 weekend hands-on programme that is designed to help each student generate content and create a career path for themselves in the brand communication s world.
Since 2007 till date, this initiative has produced hundreds of admen working in most of the reputable ad agencies across Nigeria.
Ozone is a motivator, a teacher and a mentor to hundreds of Nigerian youth. He believes in creating ample opportunity to every willing heart not out of charity but because it is the common good that holds us together.
According to him, the real value of life is determined not just by the value we carry but by the value we can add in other lives.
Ozone loves to unwind by choosing from his numerous hobbies, such as playing 3D games, drawing, painting,interacting with friends and inspiring others.
PATRON
Biodun Shobanjo
Chairman Troyka
Biodun Shobanjo is the Chairman of Troyka.
Born in Jabba, Kwara State, Mr. Biodun Shobanjo attended St. George’s Primary School and Odogbolu Grammar School for his primary and secondary education respectively. He was also at the College of the Institute of Marketing, Cookham, Maidenhead, England where he obtained the College’s Certificate in Marketing,
Mr. Shobanjo started his communication career in 1964 with the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) as a Studio Manager. By the time he left seven years after, he had risen to become a Producer. Forty-three November ago in 1971, he joined Grant Advertising, an American/Nigerian-owned Advertising agency, as an Account Executive Trainee. Five years later, he was appointed as the Deputy Managing Director. He stayed on as the DMD and member of the Board until December 1979 before bowing out to co-found Insight Communications in January 1980.
Under his watch for 25 years, Insight grew from humble beginning to become one of the biggest players in the Nigerian advertising industry. He is today chairman of Troyka Holdings, Nigeria’s largest integrated marketing communications group. Today, aside from Insight Communications, other companies which make up the Troyka Holdings include The Quadrant Company, a Public Relations Consultancy, Halogen Security, asset protection and security Services Company, two Media Independents—-All Seasons Mediacom and Media Perspectives—and Optimum Exposure, Nigeria’s leading out-of-home advertising company, and Black Onyx Properties, a real estate company.
Mr. Shobanjo is a fellow of the Advertising Practitioners’ Council of Nigeria (APCON), fellow of the Commonwealth Journalists Association, and a past president of the Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria. He is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, London and a chartered member of the British Institute of Marketing, a member, of the International Advertising Association.
Mr. Biodun Shobanjo was adjudged Nigeria’s advertising man of the 20th century by Weekend Concord in 1999, and was honoured only on November 14, 2014 with the award of the Most Influential Personality in Advertising in 2014 by the African Development Magazine in Ghana. A quiet philanthropist, Mr. Shobanjo was inaugurated in 2010 as the first Ambassador-General of the mass medical mission of the National Cancer Prevention Programme. When the Diamonds Awards was established in 1992, Mr. Shobanjo served as a pioneer judge. He has also been a longstanding sponsor of the Radio Commercial of the Year (Consumer Goods). Today, Mr. Shobanjo is the recipient of the DAME Lifetime Achievement Award as worthy testament to a life of enterprise, commitment, and achievement in the marketing communications sector.
ADVISORY BOARD
Dr. Lekan Foladapo
Registra / CEO ARCON
Dr. Lekan Fadolapo is the current Registrar/CEO at the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON), the umbrella body for the regulation of advertising practice and affiliate businesses in the country,
Dr. Olalekan Fadolapo grew up on the backstreet of Akala neighborhood in Mushin Lagos, the infamous haven for notorious street urchins. But thanks to providence, he was able to follow a less-troubled path and literally remake his world.
Today, he is a multi-disciplinarian with degrees in Economics, Business Administration, Marketing, Accountancy, and Legal Studies which he capped with a Ph.D. in Marketing Communications
He attended Birch Freeman High School, Surulere, Lagos for his O’Levels. He proceeded to Ogun State University for his first degree in Economics. Dr. Fadolapo holds three (3) Master’s degrees, MSc in Marketing, Master in Business Administration (MBA), and Master in Legal Studies (MILS) from Babcock University, Ilisan, Ogun State, the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State and Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos State respectively. He also holds a Ph.D. Degree in Marketing with a specialization in Marketing Communications from Babcock University, Illisan Remo, Ogun State.
Dr. Fadolapo is a Registered Advertising Practitioner, a Chartered Accountant, and a Fellow of ICAN. He was a member of the immediate past Governing Council of APCON and also served in several capacities within the Council and other Advertising Industry Fora. He was the past Executive Director/CEO of the Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria (AAAN)
NNENNA ONYEWUCHI
Nnenna @bananaleafangel has been in the communications and marketing game for 20 years. Nnenna began in McCann’s New Business department, managing business development activities for the New York office and coordinating offices across the global network for worldwide pitches. After two years, she moved into the Strategic Planning department, where she rose to the position of Vice President. At McCann, Nnenna worked on everything from video games and credit cards to financial services and permanent markers.
While at McCann, Nnenna helped conceive Tag Ideation, a lifestyle marketing practice group. At Tag Ideation, she co-designed a proprietary branding model, developed a suite of non-traditional research tools and helped develop not just communications, but solutions spanning new beers to coffee table books.
Nnenna returned to Nigeria in 2004 and worked in experiential marketing, production and pay-tv before finding her way back to advertising in 2007. She was Director of Business Development and Strategy at Chris Parkes Marketing Solutions, an experiential marketing company before moving on a position at TBWA\Concept. After TBWA/Concept, she worked for at Small World Media, a content development company, and HiTV, a pay TV operator. She joined ZK Advertising in 2007.
In her time at ZK, she developed comprehensive strategies for clients including Zain, Dangote and several PZ Cussons brands. During her second year at ZK, Nnenna also took on the role of Creative Director, developing award-winning advertising for a variety of clients.
Since coming home, Nnenna has worked on broad range of brands including Standard Chartered, MTV, Coca-Cola, Celtel, Motorola, Microsoft, Paga, FCMB, UNICEF, Oando, Wapic Insurance, Blackberry, Jumia, FirstBank and MTN.
In 2011, Nnenna and her partners took over the agency, rebranding it as Yellow Brick Road @ybrlagos_ She is also a founding partner in Blackbox, a strategic marketing consultancy.
Nnenna sits on several boards and is the Chairman of the Board of West African Vocational Education, a non-profit committed to ending youth unemployment in Nigeria.
Her favourite thing about her job is that she can find herself working on projects for credit cards, powdered milk and gender equality all in one day. Nnenna loves to read and secretly hopes to one day wake up in a Gabriel Garcia Marques novel
NNENNA ONYEWUCHI
STEVE BABAEKO
As X3M Ideas’ Chief Executive Officer/Chief Creativity Officer, Steve brings to the agency his significant experience in building brands across industries. Steve’s passion for creativity matches his love for challenges. He is a writer, consumer behaviour analyst, brand development expert and motivational speaker. Steve nurtures youths to be self-reliant that is why individuals and groups always invite him to speak to young Nigerians at many seminars and workshops.
He started his advertising career at MC&A Saatchi & Saatchi in 1995, before he later joined Prima Garnet Ogilvy and 141 Worldwide where he worked till early 2012, bringing his experience in the industry to a cumulative 20 years. In 2012, he took the bold step and left 141 worldwide to start his own advertising agency X3M Ideas Limited.
Steve holds a bachelor’s degree in Theatre Arts from the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria. He is an Associate member of the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON). Steve is currently the Vice-Chairman for Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria (AAAN) LAIF Board, and also the current Chairman, Public Relations Committee of the Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce.
He has attended several international Leadership trainings namely;
2016 – Executive Program for Growing Companies, Stanford Graduate Business School, USA.
2015 – Authentic Leadership Development, Harvard Business School.
2014 – Digital Marketing Strategy I & II, Columbia University Business School, USA.
2013- Integrated Executive Leadership & Performance Management, Howard University School of Business Washington DC, USA.
Steve is also the founder of X3M Music, a music record label company that is focused primarily on developing young talents.
LANRE ADISA
Lanre @lanreadisa started his career in 1990 as a Trainee Copywriter at MC&A: Saatchi & Saatchi, Lagos, Nigeria. He has since then worked in different capacities as a creative in some of Nigeria’s top agencies. He was at Insight/Grey, Nigeria’s biggest agency, where he worked for six years, leaving in 2003 as an Associate Creative Director. From there he moved to TBWA\Concept as a Creative Director. He left TBWA\Concept as an Executive Creative Director in 2008 to found Noah’s Ark.
In the ten years of its existence, Noah’s Ark @noahsarkcomm has established itself as a leading new generation agency. In 2015, Noah’s Ark ended the year on top of the Lagos Advertising & Ideas Festival (LAIF) Awards @thelaifawards table with a Grand Prix. The agency repeated the same feat in 2017, making it the only agency in Nigeria to have won the Festival Grand Prix back-to-back.
At the Loeries @loerieawards Festival in 2016, Noah’s Ark emerged the #1 agency in Sub-Saharan Africa (Outside of SA). On the heel of its 10th anniversary in 2018, Noah’s Ark was crowned the Agency of the Year at the African Cristal Festival in Marrakech, Morocco.
In a career spanning over 25 years, he has created outstanding work for some of the most notable brands Nigeria such as Indomie Noodles, Airtel, MTN, Peak Milk, Three Crowns, Virgin Atlantic and GOtv among others.
Driven by a vision to put Nigeria on the world map of advertising, Lanre is actively involved in the Nigerian creative community with a special passion for inspiring and grooming the next generation. He was a pioneer member of the Management Board of the Lagos Advertising & Ideas Festival (LAIF). He has served on the juries of the African Cristal Festival and African Ciclope Festival. He served at different times as President of jury for the Young Lions Nigeria. He was the pioneer President of the jury for the Heritage category of the Pitcher Awards. Most recently, he was appointed a member of the jury at the Cannes Lions Festival, a first for West Africa.
In addition to Noah’s Ark, he has also founded other related marketing communications agencies to offer clients more robust integrated services. They are Integrated Indigo Limited, a public relations agency and Underdog Productions, a content/audio-visual production outfit and Red Wolf, a digital marketing agency.
Beyond the world of advertising, Lanre and his wife founded Roots Foods Limited in 2014. Their flagship brand, Labule @labule_ng, is a Nigerian-centric quick service restaurant chain quietly changing the narrative in the Nigerian culinary world.
LANRE ADISA
TEMITOPE JEMERIGBE
Temitope Jemerigbe, CEO DKK Nigeria
Temitope is one of the lead players in the Marketing Communication Industry in Nigeria. She is Chairman, the Committee for Women in Advertising, AAAN and serves on the board of the Association.
A recipient of various awards, a prolific speaker and trainer, Temitope holds a Master’s degree in International Management from the University of Liverpool. She served as Dean of Future Creative Leadership Academy, 2021 and as the 1st African Judge on the prestigious Daina Awards 2021. She has past recognitions as a Leading Woman in corporate Nigeria by Leading Ladies Africa and Brand communicator.
She is a member of WISCAR & The LightHouse Network, both organizations focused on empowering women. She serves on the board of SAMI, a Sickle Cell NGO and holds a volunteer role as Global Director, Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) in support of the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent. She is married to her friend, who she met ‘in the line of duty’ I is blessed with 2 wonderful children
MANAGEMENT TEAM
OZORBEMEM UCHE
Associate Provost
Also known as “creative nerd” is a prolific visual storyteller. His passion for Digital/visual art propelled him beyond basic graphics based computer software and in addition he learnt photography, film making, 2D animation and 3D modeling. A rare feature most art directors can only covet, Uche is also creative with words and has a firm grasp of brand strategy. His never-back-down personality has him doing what otherwise would have been labelled “impossible”. His best moments are when he achieves amazing results from underdog scenarios.
Uche is passionate about problem-solving, impacting knowledge, visual storytelling, travelling and honestly, anything creative.
“To him creativity is connecting the dots that life gives to produce a useful shape that solves a problem”
He has successfully led his team to work on brands like Dangote Flour to launch the first ever World Puff Puff Day Campaign, Winnie Supermarket’s Purple Friday Campaign , Topfeeds Day-Old-Chick Product line launch and repackaging, ruff ‘n’ tumble, householdmax.com, tranos, konga, purple academy, Tambo Mobile, TAL Logistics, Fiesta condoms and a lot other brands producing impactful and effective communication. “Creative nerd” has directed and produced some short films, anticipating his own feature length movie. He has also played a major role in some original TV content like the reality tv show “the adoption” and “whos the better cook? (Mom or wife). Living a life of Impact and driven by problem-solving, Creative nerd joined in the vision to restore hope to six million Nigerian youths through capacity building bringing all his acquired knowledge and skills to the table.
CHAMBERLIN UKENEDO
Dean Of Studies, School of Advertising
Chamberlin Ukenedo @chamberwwoh is an innovative communications manager with huge expanse of hands on experience. He’s arguably one of the fastest and most creative illustrators in Nigerian advertising industry.
Chamber as he is fondly called, has helped develop diverse local and multinational brands with his communication abilities and brand building expertise. Brands including Chevron (Texaco), Motorola, Federal Ministry of Health, Accenture, Vestergard Frandsen, LG Electronics to say a few.
For leisure he can be found at sports fields, kicking footballs or at his home studio – painting portraits
Chamberlin is currently an Associate Creative Director at 141 worldwide @141_worldwide.
JOHN IGBOJIONU
Director of Strategy and Business Development
John onyekachi igbojionu is the founder and president
of jorafa group and a principal partner at knowedge consult,
an organizational effectiveness consulting firm, specializing
in leadership and brand strategy
and change management.
As a development consultant, he has engaged with clients
in corporate, nonprofit, and government sectors, which include
Lagos state waste management Agency, RIMA, and a number
of MSMEs across Africa.
John Igbojionu also doubles as a Director of Strategy at 02 academy, where he leads the strategic engagements for product development of various brands
John has over 12 years of hands on experience in proficient consulting
with key decision-makers in conducting personality and performance
assessment, designing and implementing organizational improvement,
creating product development strategies, business re-engineering and
process, organizing sales and market designs to promote profitability,
growth and sustainability
He began his career with ProbeSouth Nig Ltd as a business strategist,
where he later headed a team that saw to the reinventing policy
reformation for LAWMA Lagos Waste Management Agency.
He later joined FIDSON Healthcare PLC, where he served as a sales
and market developer, before founding jorafa group pf companies.
John holds a bachelor’s degree in Geography and Environmental
Management from the University of Port Harcourt and an MBA in Marketing
from the Port Harcourt business school.
AGBONS IGIEWE
Dean of Studies, School of Digital
Agbons Igiewe is a Marketing Communications Professional and Trainer with sub-specialty in Digital Marketing and Brand Strategy.
In a nutshell, she helps brands create awareness, engage with prospects and generate business leads using strategy, analytics, and technology.
She has managed both local and multinational brands in the FMCG, Telecommunications, Oil & Gas, Banking, Professional Services, Automobile, Household, Fast Food, Educational and Engineering sectors
She has garnered marketing experience in an interesting career spanning Advertising, Marketing Strategy and Digital Marketing with organisations like Insight Communications, 141 Worldwide (Now Nitro 121), Workforce Group, Redsquare Digital, Tranos Engineering and now Ziza Digital, where she currently serves as the General Manager. She has also served as a Marketing Consultant to several organisations.
Agbons Igiewe has facilitated several Digital Marketing and Brand Strategy Classes for various Companies and Organisational bodies like: Sterling Bank, Tranos, Alliance Law Firm, Nigerian Legal Summit, Junior Achievement Nigeria, O2 Academy, Ziza Academy and several others.
She is a Fate Foundation Mentor and volunteers as a Digital Marketing Consultant for Fate Foundation Small Business Clinic. She is a Leadership and Public Speaking devotee and served as the Vice President, Public Relations of Surulere Toastmasters Club.
Agbons holds an MBA in Marketing as well as several Digital Marketing Certifications.
AGBONS IGIEWE
Dean of Studies, School of Digital
Agbons Igiewe is a Marketing Communications Professional and Trainer with sub-specialty in Digital Marketing and Brand Strategy.
In a nutshell, she helps brands create awareness, engage with prospects and generate business leads using strategy, analytics, and technology.
She has managed both local and multinational brands in the FMCG, Telecommunications, Oil & Gas, Banking, Professional Services, Automobile, Household, Fast Food, Educational and Engineering sectors
She has garnered marketing experience in an interesting career spanning Advertising, Marketing Strategy and Digital Marketing with organisations like Insight Communications, 141 Worldwide (Now Nitro 121), Workforce Group, Redsquare Digital, Tranos Engineering and now Ziza Digital, where she currently serves as the General Manager. She has also served as a Marketing Consultant to several organisations.
Agbons Igiewe has facilitated several Digital Marketing and Brand Strategy Classes for various Companies and Organisational bodies like: Sterling Bank, Tranos, Alliance Law Firm, Nigerian Legal Summit, Junior Achievement Nigeria, O2 Academy, Ziza Academy and several others.
She is a Fate Foundation Mentor and volunteers as a Digital Marketing Consultant for Fate Foundation Small Business Clinic. She is a Leadership and Public Speaking devotee and served as the Vice President, Public Relations of Surulere Toastmasters Club.
Agbons holds an MBA in Marketing as well as several Digital Marketing Certifications.
SAM OSUNSOKO
Dean of Studies, School of Marketing
Sam Osunsoko @samosunsoko is a Managing Partner at Cognito Communications Nigeria @cognitio.ng
A graduate of Duke University; Sam, has demonstrated a history of working in the marketing and advertising industry.
He is skilled in marketing management, digital strategy, customer insight, integrated marketing, and advertising.
Sam floated Cognito, a marketing communications firm in 2018 to reposition brands and organizations within and outside the country after having successfully managed Leo Burnett in the past.
He is a strong business professional and a popular face at the Academy who loves to hit the gym from time to time.
RESIDENT INSTRUCTORS
Our instructors are practicing industry experts who are passionate and driven by one simple goal.
To duplicate themselves in each candidate that comes in contact with oxygen They are top creatives in Ad agencies and top marketing experts working for local and multinational brands.
Mathias Okpe
Digital Strategy/ Web Instructor
Jay Kalu
Copy / Content Writing Instructor
Johnpaul Idama
Copy/Content Writing Instructor
Seye Ogunniyi
Copy/Content Writing Instructor
Cynthia Nwalozie
Strategy and Brand Management Instructor
Muyiwa Babarinsa
Digital Marketing Instructor
Nelson Bright
Filmmaking Instructor
Jane Ezezobor
Account Management & Planning Instructor
John Okenwa
Art Direction Instructor
Oyediran Mayowa
Digital Strategy Instructor
MASTER CLASS INSTRUCTORS
Bada Johnson
Country manager Paramount Africa
Sinmisola Hughes-Obisesan
Group Creative Director Publicis Group
Fenen Acho
MD/CEO Medleypark
Ekeno Eyo
Chief Operating Officer Noah’s Ark Communications Limited
Doyin Adewunmi
Managing Director Creativexone
Gbolahan Sanni
VP Brands and Communication Airtel Nigeria
Godfrey Adejumoh
Head of Corporate Communications Unilever
Dotun Babatunde
Head Of Digital Marketing -Olam Nigeria
Bunmi Oke
CEO/Lead Consultant Ladybird Ltd.
Innocent Oboh
CEO of DIJO Group
Elvis Daniel Ogiemwanye
VP Marketing Opay
Seni Ogunkola
Head, Marketing Communications 9Mobile
Adedayo Adefila
Head, Digital Strategy Africa · PZ Cussons
Alero Balagun
Head, Corporate Communications and CSR Oando PLC
Chukwuemeka Jay
Executive Creative Director Imaginarium
Anthony Tiger Ekun
Executive Creative Director SO & U
Oje Ojeaga
Founder CEO Up in the sky
Jude Odia
Managing Director Starcom Media Perspectives
Funmilayo Falola
Head, Marketing, Corporate Communications and Investor Relations WEMA BANK
Obehi Ojeaga
GM. Business Development and Corporate Affairs Nigerian machine Tools
Yetunde Adesina
MD Prima Garnet Africa
Jolomi Awala
Creative Director Ogilvy
Emeka Obia
Head, Strategy & Planning Publicis Group
Ajibola Olayiwola
Group Head of Marketing, Konga
The best way to find out what 02 is like is to experience us for yourself. Schedule a free tour at the 02 Academy campus in Lagos.
Spend a day with us. Take a tour, visit a class, talk to students and instructors. Leave inspired, with a concrete plan for your future.
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