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  • [Video] Nigerian pastor caught in hotel with married woman

    [Video] Nigerian pastor caught in hotel with married woman

    The internet is awash with the video of a Nigerian cleric who was caught in an hotel room with a married woman.

    The embattled man of God who was identified as Omoriege was caught in b the pastor was prepared to make love with in a yet to be identified hotel.

    As obtained in the video, the angry husband pulled a gun and threatened to shoot Omoregie but was held back by his friends.

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  • EFCC charges Fayose, hotel with N1.3bn fraud

    Indications emerged on Saturday that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed corruption charges against a former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, and his hotel, Spotless Investment Limited.
    It was learnt that the EFCC filed the charges before the Federal High Court in Abuja.
    Fayose is accused of receiving about N1.3bn when he “ought to have known that the said fund formed part of the proceeds of an unlawful activity of Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), the then National Security Adviser, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 18(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended in 2012) and punishable under Section 15 (3) of the same Act.”
    The former governor was accused of sending his aide, Abiodun Agbele, to receive about N1.3bn from a former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, sometime in June 2014.
    The money was said to have emanated from Dasuki’s office.
    According to the EFCC, the N1.3bn was flown to Akure Airport and Obanikoro handed over the money to Agbele, who is also standing trial for corruption.
    The EFCC said officials of Zenith Bank arrived at the Akure Airport tarmac in a bullion van to convey all the cash to the bank’s vault located at 13, Alagbaka Estate, Akure.
    Attached as evidence are bank tellers Agbele allegedly gave as bank instructions at different times to pay in money into Fayose’s Zenith Bank account even after the elections.
    According to the commission, Agbele directed the bank to pay N137m into the account of Ayodele Fayose with number 1003126654 and Bank Verification Number 22338867502. The bank teller dated June 26, 2014, was filled by Agbele with teller number 0556814.
    Agbele also allegedly directed the bank to transfer N118,760,000 to the same account and paid in N50m cash into Fayose’s account.
    The commission said on April 7, 2015, several months later, Fayose personally moved N300m to his fixed deposit account at Zenith Bank with number 9013074033 with his same BVN.
    The account is domiciled at 15 Olusola Abiona Street, Estate, Alapere, Ketu, Lagos.
    According to the anti-graft agency, on the instruction of Fayose, Agbele deposited N100m to the account of Spotless Investment Limited, a hotel which is owned by Fayose and his wife, Olayemi.
    Fayose allegedly used part of the money to buy houses in Abuja and Lagos. The houses have since been seized while his bank accounts with a balance of N380m have been frozen.
    No date has been fixed for hearing.

  • Simple hotel etiquettes for guests

    Travellers expect quite a bit from the hotel experience. Not only is it important to have a comfortable place to sleep, amenities such as ice, hair dryers, irons, and breakfast are expected as well. This said, there are some things guests are expected to do when they stay in a hotel. Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency highlights hotel etiquettes for guests.

    Tip smartly

    There is a lot of staff at a hotel and it can be very confusing as to know who needs to be tipped and who doesn’t. Anyone who works at the main desk does not need to be tipped for their services. However, if the hotel has a concierge desk and you utilized their services during your stay, you can offer a tip.

    Arrange your dirty clothes before housekeeping arrives

    The housekeeping staff keeps the rooms clean for the guests, but there are certain things that guests should do prior to housekeeping entering the room. Guests should pile all their dirty towels into one pile, preferably in the bathtub, so that housekeeping can easily see what needs to be removed and replaced. All trash should be placed in a garbage can for easy removal as well.

    Do not enter a restaurant with your bathrobe

    Some hotels offer continental breakfasts or even full breakfasts for their guests, which is a wonderful way to save money when you travel. However, guests need to follow some guidelines. When a guest goes down for breakfast, they should be dressed for their day. No one should ever enter the breakfast room pyjamas or bathrobe. Guests should take the food that they will be eating for breakfast but don’t take additional food with you for the rest of the day.

    Be a gracious guest

    Just because you are paying to stay at the hotel does not mean you have to make demands. Unless your room is dirty, untidy or unsuitable for your needs being a gracious guest means you can enjoy your break without getting stressed. If you ask for room service or additional pillows etc. do allow staff sufficient time to fulfil your request before making further demands.

    Departure

    Most hotels make checkout quite easy notwithstanding if you booked the room online or at the hotel. As long as a guest does not see any discrepancies on the bill and doesn’t have any issues that they need to discuss with the front desk, most hotels allow them to leave their hotel keys inside their room and leave.

     

  • Tips for a strong hotel social media page

    While your hotel’s website is your best sales representative, your hotel’s social media page namely Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are your best Public Relations representative.

    Therefore, it is essential to arm your hotel social media platforms with the proper tools to engage your social media fans. Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency shares tips to turn your social media page into a successful PR machine.

    Designing the page differentiates from competition

    The most visible characteristic of a hotel social media page is the logo. Display your logo in an unexpected way. Provide a strong hotel overview page that’s both informational and fun. When creating your new hotel social media page ensure that it reflects the hotel’s colours, textures and the experiences that the property offers but also matches with facebook’s style.

    The Hotel menu item engage users

    Having an easy-to-use and user-friendly navigation on your hotel social media pages is an essential factor for how engaged your visitors are going to be. Bad navigation and usability can lead to visitors abandoning your page. Keep it simple. Don’t try to overwhelm people with lots of options: 3 or 4 menu items are enough.

    Create special social media promos

    Creating special offers or promotion on your pages will guarantee a loyal following. This is because if your fans know they will win something on your pages, they will always want to come back.

    Always tag photos

    Images play a great role in influencing the choice of hotels prospective guest decide to stay in. With today’s technology, taking a good picture is easier than ever. Facebook and Instagram are great for sharing pictures and engaging users. So, for your social media photos to get more engagement, always tag people to see it.

     

  • $3m Lagos Hotel: Magu, EFCC planning to nail Yari as scapegoat – Governors

    $3m Lagos Hotel: Magu, EFCC planning to nail Yari as scapegoat – Governors

    The Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, has advised the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and its chairman, Ibrahim Magu, to desist from unnecessary “shadow-boxing” and do the needful by leaving Abdulaziz Yari, Governor of Zamfara State and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, to face his job.

    The NGF stated this Wednesday in a statement by its spokesperson, Abdulrazak Barkindo.

    The statement reads: “This is because our chairman and governor of Zamfara State Dr Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar had for the umpteenth time told the commission that he neither owns a plot of land in Lagos nor owns or intends to build a hotel in Lagos.

    Yari had denied any links with a $3 million hotel in Lagos which some online media attributed to him and in fact sued the publications responsible for that insidious report for libel. But for want of scapegoats in its battle against the National Assembly, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission continues to drag the governor’s name in the mud in a veiled effort to divert attention from the matters of the moment,” the NGF said.

    The NGF also urged Nigerians to note that the EFCC action on the issue is not about any missing funds anymore, saying, “the NGF would like to categorically emphasise that it did not, at any material time, receive any funds from the Paris London refunds on behalf of any states”.

    It said the Ministry of Finance remitted all states funds to them directly from the federation accounts.

    What the NGF received, it must be repeated here, was monies due to the consortium of consultants who verified the amounts due to all the states that were owed.

    Furthermore, the NGF would like to state that its involvement with the Paris-London Club refunds had saved the states colossal amounts of money individually and collectively because instead of the high percentages agreed upon by the individual states to their separate consultants, the NGF drew the percentages down to 2% which was paid to the consortium,” it said.

    The NGF also said before then, states had agreed to pay consultants between 10 and 30 per cent as commission for recovering the over-deductions.

    It is however understandable that in the absence of a fall guy, the EFCC has consistently maligned the person of the Zamfara State governor and Chairman of the NGF, Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar, even when the need to so do was untenable, ridiculous and absent.

    The NGF is asking the commanding heights of the EFCC to instead look elsewhere for its real or imagined enemies and allow Yari Abubakar to face enormous task of governing his state and leading the governors of Nigeria,” the statement said.

     

  • Photos: EFCC seizes N3bn hotel allegedly belonging to Patience Jonathan

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has seized a hotel allegedly belonging to Patience Jonathan, wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

    The five-storey hotel, believed to be worth about N3bn, is located near Setraco Construction Company, beside Mabushi Kado Expressway.

    The property, which has not been officially opened, has between 50 to 100 rooms, a gymnasium, a fountain and other amenities.

    The hotel currently has ‘EFCC Under Investigation’ written all over the walls.

    Meanwhile, EFCC also seized three other properties in Abuja allegedly belonging to Patience.

    The properties are located in Karsana, Wasa and Idogwari areas of Abuja.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that Patience has been under probe since May 2016 when the commission arrested a former Special Adviser to the President on Domestic Affairs, Waripamowei Dudafa.

    Patience laid claim to about $15m found in bank accounts allegedly belonging to Dudafa’s domestic servants.

    She later sued Skye Bank Plc and the EFCC after which the commission, through a court order, freezed her personal account with a balance of $5m.

     

     

     

     

  • I have no plot of land, Hotel in Lagos, EFCC sponsoring malicious publications against me – Yari

    Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State has debunked allegations that he is building a $3m hotel in Lagos from Paris-London Club refunds.

    In a statement signed by Head of Public Affairs, Nigeria Governors’ Forum Secretariat, Abulrazque Barkindo, Yari said he does not have a plot of land, let alone a hotel.

    He further said the allegations were “harmful, damaging and libelous insinuations which remain largely unsubstantiated.”

    “Reports on Governor Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar of Zamfara state, and chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum making the rounds that the ‘governor is building a $3m hotel from monies stolen from the Paris-London Club refunds to states’ give cause for worry,” the statement read.

    “The reports contain harmful, damaging and libelous insinuations which remain largely unsubstantiated despite the fact that it attributes the leaks to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), officials in Lagos.

    “Governor Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar has said emphatically that he does not even own a plot of land in Lagos not to talk of a hotel.

    “But the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission officials in Lagos claimed as follows: that “they have found a hotel being constructed by Governor Yari of Zamfara state with $3m he stole from London-Paris Club loan refund to Nigerian states.

    “That “apart from the $3million, Governor Yari also diverted N500 million from the Paris Club refund to pay off a loan”, an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) source revealed to an online medium.

    “The medium also added that EFCC officials in Lagos revealed that “overall the governor embezzled the sum of N2.2 billion from the N19billion set aside illegally to pay ‘consultants’, all of which are wrong, harmful, libellous and misleading disclosures.

    “Governor Abdulaziz Yari is not building any hotel in Lagos nor were any monies stolen or embezzled from the Paris-London Club refunds to states or from any other source.

    “The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was quoted extensively as source of that report and the Nigeria Governors’ Forum is alarmed that the EFCC continues to feed the media fibs at the expense of its hard-earned reputation as the anti- graft agency that Nigerians used to respect,” the statement read.

    “This is perhaps why the EFCC has lost most of the high-profile corruption cases at the law courts after it had unfairly stage-managed media trials and caused their victims personal pain and public umbrage.

    “This report, typical of most of the exclusive leaks that are becoming characteristic of the sources that court some sections of the media, lacks detail and compelling evidence to be fit to print.

    “The sources were courageous enough to mention a hotel in Lekki area of Lagos but gave neither a street name nor any specific information on the property to give credibility to the allegations. This does no service to any investigation nor does it help the development of our country Nigeria.

    “The media, we all know, is entitled to perform its duties as watchdog of society, which is enshrined in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

    “It is not, however, entitled to make unfair attacks, based on unfounded, false and unsubstantiated allegations against responsible public office holders.

    “The media should support the EFCC in ensuring that convicting people on the pages of newspapers shouldn’t be the focus of the EFCC in its war against corruption.

    “Instead, EFCC should channel its energies to a comprehensive, thorough and credible investigation that can stand the scrutiny of legal examination in court.”