Wednesday, 30 March 2016

Hotel you can stay near RCCG Camp, Lagos - Ibadan Express way, Mowe. Ogun State

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About Heritage Inn & Suites
Where Traditional Style and Contemporary Relaxation Meet
Stay in style, comfort and elegance at Heritage Inn & suites. Forgoing over-the-top hipness of many boutique hotels in Nigeria in favour of stately elegance and intuitive functionality, luxury hotel provides a calm, tranquil oasis in the heart of Nigeria’s busiest city. We serve complimentary breakfast to all our guests as value-add for your patronage.

Power supply is constant round the clock (24/7 as we say in our parlance) and the ambience of our environment is such that makes possible quality relaxation and is fit for great spiritual exercise. Embrace the best of RCCG’s Holy Ghost City Programs at Heritage Inn & suites – a Mowe District boutique hotel where historic grace, timeless character and contemporary elegance come together. Our services are excellent and quite affordable.  
MISSION STATEMENT
Heritage Inn & Suites' purpose is to provide guests with comfort spiced with quality service, peaceful ambience and quietness away from hustle and bustle of the city, offering pious souls unfettered access to a home-away-from-home where they can diligently and spiritually seek the face of the Almighty God at any given time or day.
VISION STATEMENTIn the foreseeable future, Heritage Inn & Suites shall become the leading go-to guest home that offers clients a perfect blend of premium quality service, quiet environment and spiritual energy necessary for unrestricted access to God's throne of grace.
Our firm faith in the Creator, God Almighty, and principled addiction to the things of the Spirit premised on the efficacy of prayer and fasting as He ordained will continually be our guiding compass when navigating thorny issues of life as a business.
Heritage Inn & Suites is a product of forthright thinking, an honest attempt at creating place where pious men and women needing time before God's throne of grace can come, stay, search the scriptures with relative peace and quietness, and top all these with excellent hospitalable services.
We shall always welcome our clients with love, nourish their souls with healthy meals, and provide necessary social amenities that make their stay here enjoyable, productive and highly rewarding. We will listen to their complaints and make swift adjustment to please to please them at all time because we know that customers are kings and queens.
 

website: www.heritageinnandsuites.com.ng

Activist warns Aregbesola against contempt of court

A human rights activist based in Ilesa, Osun State, Mr. Kanmi Ajibola, has warned Governor Rauf Aregbesola against going ahead with the plan to sack 678 workers of the LAUTECH Teaching Hospital.
 
Ajibola, who is also a lawyer said at a press conference in Osogbo on Wednesday that the governor could not take any action on the issue because a case had been instituted against him before an Osogbo High Court.
 
 Ajibola said “The governor claims he is good and somebody who respects the rule of law and he must demonstrate it. The case has been taken to court and he must abide by the rule of law and should not do anything against it pending the destination of the suit.
 
“Anything done after the service of the processes becomes illegal and he should not be involved in such but should rather wait patiently until the case is resolved in court.”
 
The lawyer said the vacancies were advertised and candidates applied for the positions after which they were employed with the government’s approval.
 
According to them the affected workers have been working and receiving  salaries for over four years, wondering why the government would want to sack them now for no reason.
 
He stated that sacking the workers would render them jobless and add to the problem of unemployment in the state.
 
The Acting Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Prof. Akeem  Lasisi, could not be reached for comment on the alleged planned sacking as calls put across to did not connect.
 
However, the Chairman, Governing Board of the hospital, Prof. Oluwole Atoyebi, had queried the former CMD, Prof. Olufemi Fadiora over the alleged Illegal recruitments in the hospital.

In Nigeria, Most fuel stations now sell petrol above 130 – Poll

Most people in Nigeria now buy petrol way above the normal N86.50 price. They now buy as high a N150, waiting for hours in long queues under harsh weather conditions.
Nigerians who responded to our survey on how much petrol costs in their area also indicated that while the “new generation or small” fuel stations are more guilty of selling above the normal price, the “big multinationals” sell at normal price but have longer queues.
According to the survey, only 11.2 percent of our respondents get petrol at N86.50. A mere 1.1 percent buy at N100, while 11.5 percent buy at N130. The highest number of people (27.9 percent) buys the commodity at N140 while the remaining 25.4 percent buy above N140.


Fuel polls
Words like “bad”, “terrible”, “horrible”, “hectic”, “insane” and a few unprintable words were employed by almost 70 percent of respondents to describe their experiences on the queues for fuel.
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Screen shot of respondents’answers

Apart from the physical exhaustion that comes with hustling for fuel, respondents also point out its impact on their business.

“It is a terrible experience to behold,” one respondent said. “Queuing for long hours not even certain of fueling your car; it is quite frustrating and exhausting. Imagine being on queue and business associates are calling to transact a business or to conclude outstanding deals. The experience doesn’t have a better word to describe it.”

“Very pathetic experience, spending more useful time in the queue and more money at that,” another respondent said. “Still salary remains the same. Government should do something fast.”

From Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State, a respondent said, there are several people as expected due to the normal price which is N86:50 at MRS filling station, Isale Igbein Abeokuta. The manager has firm control of the surging crowd. I believe she is respected due to her truthfulness and transparency. Several other filling stations in Abeokuta however sell at between N120-150/Ltr.”

From Asaba, the capital of Delta State, a respondent said, “Obviously there is fuel in most filling stations in my location (Asaba), there are no queues actually because of the price. However, there are massive queues in stations selling at govt prices.”

From the capital of Rivers State, a respondent said, “In Port Harcourt city center the stations don’t sell. In the outskirts petrol is sold above N150 in the stations. Where it is sold at N86.50 there are very long queues.”

In “Lokoja, Kogi State capital, very long queues are seen at NNPC filling stations which I cannot bear,” a respondent said.  “Major petroleum marketers such as Conoil, Total, etc are not selling as their stations are closed for operation and individual marketers are selling at N170.”

From Ikare Akoko, one of Ondo State’s major cities a respondent said, “No much queues at few private filling stations that are selling in Ikare Akoko. Most Major marketers have no fuel to sell but the private marketers are selling at N150.00.”

“I live at Afikpo Ebonyi State; here Petrol is sold between 180 Naira and 200 Naira a litre,” a respondent said.

“In my area, Aja lekki Lagos, they are selling at the normal price 86.50k but you must be on queues from morning till evening before getting the product,” another respondent said.

From Niger State a respondent said, “I bought petrol for 180 naira in Minna.”
Some respondents even raised issues about the quality of the fuel available in their locations. They call on the government to quickly find a solution.
Fuel queue

Police seal off Kogi Assembly

The crisis  rocking  the Kogi  State  House of Assembly assumed a new dimension yesterday when the complex was finally  sealed of by the security agents.
This follows the failure  of the Assembly to resolve the leadership crisis that has bedeviled  the house in the last three months.

Our correspondent who visited  the Assembly complex yesterday morning observed that the main entrance to the assembly complex was blocked by heavily armed policemen and prevented members who were billed to conduct budget defence from accessing the complex.
The road leading to the complex was also barricaded by armed policemen who subjected staff of the assembly to scrutiny and only allowed them in upon confirmation of their employment status through their Identity Cards.

The security agent claimed  to be acting based on instructions from the commissioner of police following a directive from the Force Headquarters in Abuja.

Speaking on the seal-off, Mr Aliyu Akuh, deputy to the embattled speaker Momoh-Jimoh Lawal said the crisis remained unresolved as earlier directive to return to status quo ante by the House of Representatives was ignored by the five members.

He said it was an aberration for five out of the then 20 members of the assembly to impeach the speaker on whom the remaining 15 members had passed a vote of confidence in his leadership.
Akuh said that the 15 members considered the action of the minority five members as an infringement on the constitution of the country adding that in a good democratic setting such infringements must be challenged.

“What happened with five members seeking to impeach a speaker in a house of 20 members is an aberration, unheard of and more so that some members’ names and signatures were forged and included as being part of them.

“We had to go to the higher authority which is the National Assembly vested with the constitutional powers to intervene in such situations. The House of Representatives ordered the seal-off and it was concurred by the Senate,” he said.

On the position of the law with the suit filed by the five members at the Federal High Court, Lokoja challenging the intervention of the National Assembly on the impasse, Akuh said there was no injunction or court order restraining the National Assembly.

The factional speaker, Alhaji Umar Imam described the seal-off as illegal saying that for the National Assembly to have gone ahead to seal-off the assembly in spite of the fact that the matter was pending in court smacked of illegality.

Imam who spoke through his Chief Press Secretary, Umar Ali said the action of the National Assembly was aimed at stunting the growth of the state as all legislative businesses especially the passage of the 2016 Appropriation Bill would be affected.

Efforts to get the state command of the Nigeria Police to confirm failed as the Public Relations Officer, Williams Aya in a text message said he was in a meeting.

FG sacks postmaster-general over stamp duty controversy

The rift between the Minister of Communications, Mr. Adebayo Shittu, and the Nigerian Postal Service over the collection of stamp duty on Tuesday claimed its first victim as the Federal Government sacked the acting Postmaster General of the Federation, Mr. Enoch Ogun.

Trouble started for Ogun when on Tuesday he was summoned to the Ministry of Communications with his Deputy Postmaster General.

At the meeting which was presided over by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Mr. Sonny Echeno, Ogun was told that the minister had approved his retirement and had directed that he should hand over to the most senior officer in the organisation, Dr. Richard Balami.

Although Ogun was due to retire from NIPOST by the end of December 2015, he was directed to remain in office until a substantive Postmaster General was appointed.

The process of appointing a substantive PMG and Chief Executive Officer of the postal organisation has been on and Ogun applied for the job which was thrown open.

He had been seen as the candidate to beat.
Cosmo learnt that following the development, Balami’s appointment was announced as the new acting PMG via a circular.
Until his appointment, Balami was DPMG, Special Duties.

Correspondent had reported that the Ministry of Communications and the Nigerian Postal Services were on a collision course over the appointment of agents for the collection of stamp duties in several sectors of the economy.

NIPOST had last week interviewed about 30 new companies and individuals who had applied to serve as agents to NIPOST for the collection of stamp duties but Shittu in a statement on Monday said NIPOST had not been authorised to appoint any new agent for the collection of stamp duties.
The minister, who has yet to return from a trip to South Korea and China, said the process should be suspended until grey areas surrounding the agency’s claims had been sorted and until a substantive Postmaster-General had been appointed.

He added that before this dispensation, a few corporate bodies and organisations were claiming to have an agreement with NIPOST in respect of the matter.

“It is therefore expedient to tread with caution and ensure that all issues bordering on the administration of the stamp duty by NIPOST are done in line with the Federal Government’s commitment to due process, transparency and accountability,” he had said.
In a telephone interview with our correspondent, however, a top NIPOST official who spoke to our correspondent on condition of anonymity said the acting PMG had not just appointed a committee on stamp duty.