Newly formed Direct Mailing Practitioners Association  of Nigeria , DMPAN, last week visited the Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, where it received a promise that the ministry was going to support every of its worthy causes.

The Minister while receiving the team, said that she was delighted that the private sector was teaming up with the relevant arms of government to promote the development of the appropriate communications infrastructure in Nigeria.

The DMPAN team was led by the council’s president, Mr Rotimi Olaniyan, and introduced by  the Post Master General of the Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Mori Baba.

The Association which has been established as an interest group to promote the development and self regulation of the Direct mailing communications industry in Nigeria , is open to all practitioners and stakeholders in the Direct Mailing and database marketing industry.

While thanking both the Honourable Minister and the Post Master General of the federation for their support, Olaniyan, expressed the practitioners’ readiness to contribute their own quota to seeking the appropriate solutions to the challenges facing the sector in paramount areas such as a National Addressing policy, the aggregation and ethical utilization of national consumer databases, as well as the overall growth of commercial mail volumes in the country.

Rounding off the visit, the team used the opportunity to invest both the Honourable Minister and Post Master General as Patrons of the Association