Section 9: Power of the Council.

The Council shall have powers to-(a) manage and superintend its affairs ;
(b) authorise, formulate, establish and issue code, proclamations, standards of practice, guidelines, and other regulations on advertising, advertisement and marketing communications in Nigeria ;
(c) establish and maintain register of advertising and marketing communications practitioners in Nigeria ;
(d) license and revoke license issued to all categories of advertisement agencies under this Act ;
(e) liaise with relevant organisations within and outside Nigeria in performing its functions under this Act ;
(f) monitor and enforce sanctions on any person or organisation that sponsors, exposes or causes to be exposed in Nigeria, any advertising, advertisement and marketing communications materials without prior
approval of the Advertising Standards Panel ;
(g) investigate and compel public and private organisations to produce advertising and marketing communications related information ;
(h) have access to books including financial records of organisations licensed by the Council ;
(i) accredit relevant departments of tertiary institutions offering advertising, graphic arts, marketing, media communication, mass communications and other related subjects ;
(j) compel public and private organisations to use only bodies corporate licensed under this Act for advertising and marketing communications services in Nigeria ;
(k) compel public and private organisations to disclose all advertising service providers engaged by them ;
(l) investigate and prosecute individual, body corporate or organisation, directors and shareholders licenced under this Act in the interest of the public ;
(m) where the interest of the public requires, apply to the Federal High Court for the winding-up of the affairs of an organisation whose license has been revoked ;
(n) issue license awards and ratings in advertising, advertisements and marketing communications targeted at Nigerian market ;
(o) recognise, accredit, license and regulate the activities of advertising sectoral groups ;
(p) sanction any person or organisation that violates or infringes any provision of this Act, code of advertising practise, standard of practice, proclamation and any other enactment that relates to advertising, advertisement and marketing communications in Nigeria ;
(q) prosecute any person or organisation that violates or infringes any provision of this Act, code of advertising, proclamations and any other enactment relating to advertising, advertisement and marketing communications ;
(r) upon violation of any provision of this Act, seal advertising department,marketing department or commercial departments of organisations and agencies upon obtaining court order ;
(s) advise the Government of the Federation on any matter relating to the operation of this Act including making recommendations for the review of policies, legislation and subsidiary legislation that it may consider
appropriate ;
(t) compel public or private organisations, or any person who sponsors or take benefit of an advertisement to pull down or remove any advertisement or marketing communication exposed and directed at the Nigerian market
that violates any provision of this Act ;
(u) stop the exposure or cause the removal of any advertising, advertisement and marketing communication exposed or directed at the Nigerian market that violates any provision of this Act ; and
(v) do such other things as it considers necessary for the effective performance of its functions under this Act.