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  • Firm changes perception on real estate

    An indigenous firm, Homework Development and Properties Limited has helped in changing the erroneous perception of foreign investors about the Nigerian real estate sector.

    This is the major outcome of the recent conference organised by the Association of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas (ANPA) in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The Lagos real estate company showcased its affordable products and promoted positive developments in real estate in Nigeria.

    Reflecting on the conference attended by physicians and other professionals, the Director of Homework Development and Properties Limited, Mr. Jide Adekola said it provided a platform, which helped to change the perception that foreign investors would not get value for money or might get scammed in Nigeria. It also created the awareness that there are professionals in the sector who are able to provide quality products locally.

    “The change in perception, which we have created, would in no small measure boost businesses and increase the volume of foreign direct investments that can engender increase in gross domestic product of the country,” Adekola said.

    He said that the event has exposed Homework to ANPA’s publications, increased networking and sales leads, the needs of customers and the property market, increased trust in foreign investors in the Nigerian real estate market.

    Adekola explained that the real estate sector, which is inundated with issues of trust, lack of finance and presence of charlatan, can be saved if government subsidises the cost of land for credible developers who have the capacity to provide affordable housing.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Firm unveils platform to address gaps in travel

    Firm unveils platform to address gaps in travel

    A new platform flyamco.com has promised to address challenges faced by travellers and other service users.

    Chief Executive Officer, Amco Travel  and Tours Limited Ahmed Mohammed Sani, disclosed this at the launch of the platform in Abuja.

    Besides  improving customer experience in travel services, Sani said the platform  will offer Nigerians technology-based solutions in addressing challenges in the  industry.

    The platform, Sani said, provides a window for passengers to book flights and hotel reservations at discounted rates with quality services.

    Sani decried the poor services customers get in the country, especially in the aviation and hospitality sector.

    The new platform, he assured will provide customers with top quality travel and tour services in compliance with the highest international standards.

    He said:  “Flyamco.com was carefully designed to provide travel related information and cost effective customer care and is amongst the highest of our priorities and we are on our toes to accomplish this task at any hour

    Sani said customers would be provided a 24 hours service for greater convenience of e-travellers and tourists as part of measures to boost tourism.

    He said: “We have been in the sector for about a decade.  We have been at the fore front promoting travel and tourism in Nigeria. We have prioritised comfort and quality services and have built trust in the market.

    “We have been operating charter flights for pilgrims, especially Umrah and Hajj.  We explore new frontiers daily and our next option for Nigeria is to leverage technology to address challenges in the sector and offer a seamless experience that will boost our aviation and tourism sector.”

    According to him, the firm not only assist clients to facilitate air fares, but also provide hotel accommodation, travel insurance and visa procurement.

    The firm , Sani said, also  provides car rental services, airport hotel transfers and cruises around the world,organise local and international conferences, facilitate student visas across the world, especially in United States, Ukraine, Cyprus and Dubai as well as work out tailor-made packages for customers.

    “In the spirit of tourism development and promotion in Nigeria, we have packaged several tourism and leisure services across Nigeria and indeed West Africa.

    “This is aimed at promoting the unity and understanding of the various cultures, ecology, integration of our people and appreciation of the tourism potentials of Nigeria and indeed West Africa,” Sani said.

     

  • Firm gives 374 Rivers students scholarship

    •‘12,000 jobs underway’

    Belemaoil Producing Nigeria Ltd has awarded scholarship to 374 students from oil producing communities in Rivers State.

    The award is in compliant with its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy, under the NNPC/Belemaoil Joint Venture (JV).

    The scholarship, given in three categories of post-primary, undergraduates and post-graduates levels, was meant to assist indigent but brilliant students.

    One hundred and twenty-one of the beneficiaries are in secondary schools, 175 are undergraduates and 78 are pursuing post-graduate programmes.

    Each of the categories was given financial packages ranging from N60, 000 to N200, 000 and N300, 000.

    Speaking at the handing over of cheques in Port Harcourt, the Founder and President of the company, Tein Jack-Rich, said the essence of the intervention was to assist indigenes of oil-bearing communities to realise their dreams, for the development of their communities.

    He said: “We are here not just to celebrate the success attained by the beneficiaries, but to also honour the privilege given to us as a company to serve.

    “We recognise that if one jokes with education, one is joking with future. If you fail to grab these young ones, who have the enthusiasm and flair to pursue their academic dream, you are limiting their future opportunities.

    “What we have come here to celebrate is not just a display of wealth, but also a display of interest; that believing in youths of today is unlocking the future of tomorrow and that is making the society a better place.”

    Jack-Rich hailed the partners, including National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), host communities, youths, the bank, state government and President Muhammadu Buhari for their support.

    He advised the beneficiaries to see the scholarship as an opportunity to develop themselves and unlock their talents.

    Jack-Rich said: “The total scholarship per annum is over a hundred million naira. What we have given today is over seventy million naira cheques and we have students in Cyprus, the UK, America, Canada, Ghana, Malaysia and Phillipines.”

    He said the company is hoping to create about 12,000 jobs if its proposal with the Presidency is approved.

    The chairman of the occasion, Chief Alabo Tonye Graham Douglas, praised the initiative of Jack-Rich and enjoined the beneficiaries not to misuse the opportunity.

    The Executive Vice-President (Finance, Administration and Human Resources), Belemaoil, Rosemary Asiegbu, urged the beneficiaries to make good use of the opportunity and emulate the virtues of their benefactor by assisting in nation building.

    The beneficiaries hailed the firm for the opportunity, saying it would ease their financial challenges.

     

  • ‘Why we will never allow firm to resume oil production’

    ‘Why we will never allow firm to resume oil production’

    The National Coordinator of Ken Saro-Wiwa Associates, Chief Gani Topba, has disclosed why Ogoni people will never allow Robo-Michael Ltd to resume oil production in Ogoniland’s four local governments of Khana, Gokana, Tai and Eleme.

    He accused the oil company of lack of capacity, while its association with Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) and Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), the oil production arm of Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), would be to its disadvantage. Topba said SPDC would not be allowed to return to Ogoni through the backdoor.

    He spoke yesterday at a thanksgiving service at Calvary Army Ministry International (Emmanuel’s Ground) headquarters, at his Zaakpon-Ogoni hometown in Khana Local Government of Rivers State on the group’s protest against Robo-Michael Ltd at NNPC headquarters in Abuja on January 4, which coincided with Ogoni Day.

    The officiating minister, Pastor Fred Egarakam, hailed Ken Saro-Wiwa Associates for the just cause and for the intellectual fight to end injustice and neglect in Ogoniland, urging the members and other Ogoni people to put God first and continue their non-violent struggle.

    SPDC was sent packing from Ogoniland in 1993, while a renowned environmentalist, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists, were hanged at the Port Harcourt Prisons on November 10, 1995, during the regime of the late Gen. Sani Abacha.

    Topba said: “Some people, who were given money by Robo-Michael Ltd, made attempts to sabotage the process. They did not want the January 4 protest at NNPC headquarters in Abuja to hold, but to the glory of God, the protest was successful. Over 150 Ogoni people, who travelled to Abuja for the protest, are back in Ogoniland. That’s why we are thanking God.

    “Robo-Michael has operatorship for Shell and NPDC. The firm was not given licence for Oil Mining Lease (OML)-11. It was a fraud to deceive Ogoni people and it will be cancelled by the Federal Government. We want an oil company with capacity to resume oil production in Ogoni, but not Robo-Michael, SPDC or NPDC.

    “Shell’s licence in Ogoni’s OML-11 will expire next year. The oil company (SPDC) cannot return to Ogoni through the backdoor, after polluting Ogoni environment since 1958, when it began oil production in Ogoniland. The pollution is yet to be cleaned and Ogoni people are suffering, they lack drinking water, the air is polluted and the people can no longer farm or fish. We are continuing with our local and international campaigns against Shell, Robo-Michael and NPDC.”

    The national coordinator said security agents were no longer the enemies of Ogoni people, considering the support received and understanding displayed on January 4 by fully-armed security personnel at NNPC headquarters in Abuja, who had Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) and patrol vans, but never harassed Ogoni protesters.

    He noted that he and other members of the group depended on God, declaring that nothing would stop their non-violent struggle for justice and fairness.

    Topba said: “If SPDC does not apologise to Ogoni people, it cannot penetrate Ogoniland. Robo-Michael Ltd cannot tap Ogoni oil, because the oil company does not have capacity. Ogoni oil is not a curse, but a blessing. Powers of darkness have turned the crude into a curse. God will deliver Ogoni people and Ogoniland. Nobody can deceive us anymore.

    “We will continue to move round Ogoni villages for enlightenment, for the people to kick against saboteurs, who may want to cheat or deceive them. We will go to churches in Ogoniland, so that devilish people will not control Ogoni people and Ogoniland.”

    He said in the next two weeks, 150 Ogoni women would each be empowered with N50,000 through a microfinance bank, which would be repaid, to enable other women benefit, while 15 Ogoni students in each of the six kingdoms would each be given N10,000 as bursary, through the National Union of Ogoni Students, to support their education, with 15 youths in each of the kingdoms to also benefit from empowerment and skills’ acquisition programmes.

    Topba warned them against cultism.

  • Firm decries alleged trespass of N700b real estate

    Firm decries alleged trespass of N700b real estate

    DHTL Capital Management Limited, the consultant, manager and auditor of the Estate of the Ashamu family, has decried encroachment and illegal trespass on the family’s real estate assets, valued at about N700 billion.

    In a statement, the family of Chief Emmanuel Ashamu warned all illegal occupants and trespassers on the family’s landed properties worth more than N700 billion in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Cross River, Rivers and Gombe among others.

    In the statement signed by Omotunde Ashamu, Samuel Ashamu and Suwebat Abdullalin, the family issued a 14-day ultimatum to illegal occupants and trespassers to stop forthwith any such activities or enter into negotiation with the family through its consultant.

    The statement frowned at the continuing encroachment, illegal trespass, land garbling activities and fraudulent forgery of the family documents to sell, enter into contract of sale and process of document with the appropriate authorities on the land belonging to the Estate of Chief Ashamu.

    The statement reads: “The general public must be wary of dealing with any agent or representatives on any properties belonging to the family in areas such as Anthony, Maryland, Gbagada, Millennium Estate, Atunrase Estate, Ikeja, Isolo and other locations in Lagos State.”

     

     

     

  • Firm gets presidential award

    Firm gets presidential award

    A law firm, Perchstone & Graeys, has won the first Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) Impact Award.

    The award was presented to the law firm by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) and House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara.

    The ceremony took place during the first anniversary of PEBEC’s inauguration.

    It was received by the firm’s Managing Partner Mr. Osaro Eghobamien (SAN).

    The award is in recognition of its  role in achieving PEBEC’s objectives.

    As a result, the country was elevated  by 24 points in the World Bank’s Comparative Analysis of the ease of doing business.

    The award was also in recognition of the firm’s contributions and commitment to the 2016-2017 World Bank Ease of Doing Business Reforms.

    By the recent ranking, Nigeria now holds the 145th position out of the 190 countries on the global ease of doing business rankings – compared to the 169th position which the country occupied in last year’s report.

    Nigeria also features as one of the ten economies showing the most notable improvement in doing business for 2018.

    Perchstone & Graeys, as a leading commercial law firm  has been involved in initiatives to assist in the ease of doing business and to attract foreign direct investment.

    The firm’s notable contributions include reforms to the “Getting Credit Indicator”, which resulted in Nigeria being placed at the sixth position in the world on the Getting Credit indicator.

    Highlights of the reforms include the signing into law of the “Secured Transactions in Movable Assets Act 2017” and the “Credit Reporting Act 2017”, as well as the developments in the National Collateral Registry, and the Credit Bureaus.

    Perchstone & Graeys worked extensively for close to eight years, on “The Secured Transaction on Moveable Assets Collateral Registry Act”.

    The Act creates a framework that establishes and maintains a centralized collateral registry, where records of transactions and moveable assets, offered as security for said transactions, are electronically recorded.

    The Act principally enables small and medium sized industries to access credit using any asset other than land, including asset receivables, with capacity to enhance GDP .

    The Banks have direct access to the Collateral Registry from any of their offices anywhere in the world, giving them the unique opportunity to trace any asset offered as security.

    With this recognition from the Presidency, the firm has restated its commitment to continue to play a leading role in shaping policy towards a more robust business climate in Nigeria.

  • Firm inaugurates N100m office complex

    Pertinence Nigeria Limited, an indigenous firm with  interest in real estate business,has inaugurated its head office complex in Egbeda area of Lagos State.

    The two-storey edifice, worthover N100 million sits on about 600 square meters, while the office occupies about 300 square metres. The attached hall and auditorium sit on the remaining  space.

    The architect, Mr. Abel Adejo, explained that the hall, if arranged in theatre view sitting, has the capacity for 600 people and for seminar or for about 350 people for wedding arrangement.

    On its first floor are the administration office, the server room and eight other office spaces; the second floor accommodates the executive directors’ offices, which has a lounge connecting the two offices; two bedrooms attached to it, and a 22-seater boardroom.

    Adejo told The Nation that in compliance with climate change and green building advocacy, the entire building has a large number of glass works. This, he explained, is to admit artificial lightening into the building.

    “If the whole building is fitted with bulbs there will be too much heat. It is part of the design to be green architecture in compliance with the changing world especially n the face of climate change,” Adejo said.

    Concerning acoustics, the architect said the hall is designed to eliminate echo- a feat achieved with the rug placement in certain parts of the hall, tile flooring and plaster of paris (POP) ceiling.

    The parking lot is designed to accommodate 60 vehicles, all parked without causing any blockage to each other.

    Its Executive Director, Mr. Sunday Olorunsheyi, said the inauguration  was significant given that the day marked five years of the company’s coming into existence. For him, it is a mark of God’s favour on the business, considering the very humble beginning it had.

    “We are five years old today and God has been faithful to us. When we look back, we know that it has been God. Today, we also celebrate integrity, because that is what has kept us in business and brought us thus far,” Olorunsheyi said.

    The second Executive Director, Mr. Wisdom Ezekiel, agreed. He explained that with integrity, they have been able to build the business, which he said, has now grown in leaps and bounds. For Ezekiel, the feat could not have been achieved with the customers, who trusted the firm with their money.

    “We want to specially thank our clients today for staying by us and believing in us. They are our strongest partners and our assets and we do not take them for granted. We also thank God for the loyal staff we have had all through,” Ezekiel said.

  • Firm to parley distributors

    Honeycomb Confectionery Ltd will today hold an interactive session with distributors in line with its vision to build a proactive and responsive brand.

    The forum, to hold at its bakery on Dopemu road, will involve sessions on building viable business during recession.

    The forum will also address complaints and chart the way forward to sustain market growth and add value to their business partners.

    The Executive Vice Chairman of Honeycomb Confectioneries Ltd, Mrs Biyi Tunji-Olugbodi, said the forum is aimed at deepening the knowledge of their business partners about current trends in the food sector.

     

  • ‘We started firm to empower people’

    The Chief Executive Officer of Genuine Deal Global, Princess Endorah Obasoanya Egwu, has said the scheme was introduced to empower people.

    Speaking to The Nation at a seminar in Lagos, Princess Egwu said members would get foodstuff, household items and cars in December.

    According to her, Genuine is different from MMM, but a multi-level referral marketing network, which builds on trust, empowerment and marketing acquisition.

    Her words: “Genuine Deal Global is all about networking; it is a multi-level referral marketing, which builds on empowerment and marketing acquisition.

    “What we are doing is about hard work, letting the people know that hard work gives food; that once you work well, you will gain well. It’s a source of investment opportunity that goes well and based on genuine transactions.

    “It came as a multi-level platform in Nigeria and now in 12 countries, and still expecting more. It is about empowerment and a network that deals with referrals and grows in stages. The benefits are in cash, skill acquisition, food and household items

    “To be a member is a onetime donation of N8,000, after which you will introduce two people; you will be paid for this. These two people will also bring two others, and you will also gain from it.”

  • Firm, NOA hold dialogue on economy

    Synergos Nigeria and the National Orientation Agency (NOA) are partnering to organise a summit on ‘Youth using Ethnic Diversity for Agriculture Excellence’a foundation dialogue for a more inclusive and collaborative economy among younger Nigerians.

    The dialogue, which holds in Abuja tomorrow is coming at a time the nation has begun building the foundation of a diversified economy and shift of focus from oil-led exports to agriculture led growth as contained in the Economic Recovery Growth Plan 2017.

    Tagged: the Synergos Diversity Dialogue, the summit will be chaired by Peggy Dulany, Founder and Chair of Synergos as well as the Global Philanthropists Circle, she co-founded the latter in 2001.She has continued the tradition of her family and late father American philanthropist, David Rockefeller to ensure Bridging Leadership and Collaboration deliver inclusive economies for the Poor.

    Other guests at the summit are Maryam Uwais, Special Adviser to the President on Social Investment and Garba Abari of the National Orientation Agency. The event is facilitated by Synergos Nigeria, a non-profit organisation with focus on facilitating system changes and influencing sustainable development.

    Synergos Institute founded in 1986 is a global nonprofit organization that brings people together to solve complex problems of poverty and create opportunities for individuals and their communities to thrive. It was founded to promote collaboration among grassroots groups and government or business leaders and organizations, people who otherwise would not have access to each other, so that they can develop long-term relationships and forge new paths in overcoming poverty.

    Adewale Ajadi, head of Synergos Nigeria, explained that the organisation’s resolve to put together the summit was informed by the progress of Nigeria towards systemic improvement in Agriculture in which Diversity is a silent but critical player.

    Ajadi said: “This event is being organised to facilitate discussions on driving a truly inclusive economy through youth, particularly youth in agriculture.”

    Synergos in previous engagements have worked on bridging leadership gaps between Federal and State stakeholders, provided collaboration platforms to promote agribusiness in Kogi, Benue and Kaduna States and facilitated a systems-thinking approach to agriculture in Nigeria.