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Nanet Hotels is the largest indigeneous hotel in the country, Akpabio says

3INVESTONLINE - AKWA IBOM

Group Managing Director, Nanet Suites Ltd, Ini Akpabio, is also the National President, Hospitality and Tourism Management Association of Nigeria. In this interview with SOLOMON NDA-ISAIAH, he speaks on the challenges facing the hospitality and tourism sectors, and calls for professionals to administer them to ensure efficient management. He also speaks his firm’s attractive services to customers.

Some hoteliers have been complaining that the cost of tariff in Abuja hotels are so high; why is this so?

Let’s talk about Abuja but it is also relevant to other states. Tourism products are expensive generally and particularly in Abuja because of so many factors.The tourism industry does not exist in isolation; it depends on other sectors of the economy. Nigeria is an import-driven society because a lot of items that we use in the hospitality business are imported and they are expensive. If you have a hotel that has a lift or elevator, that is an imported item with imported parts.

Supreme Court decides Bayelsa land controversy, as Edepie clan loses out

3INVESTONLINE - BAYELSA

AFTER reviewing the case, five Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, have decided the controversy between Edepie and Biogbola clans both of Yelga, Bayelsa State, wherein they concluded that the former are trespassers on a piece of land located at Azi-Biogbolo.

Their lordships, Walter Onnoghen, Ibrahim Muhammad, Olufunlola Adekeye, Nwali Ngwuta, Mary Peter-Odili, held that the appeal was devoid of merit, and it was accordingly dismissed, with a cost of N50,000.00 awarded in favor of the respondents.

Represented by Chief Sunday Oriorio, Messrs. Jack Erimari, Obi Seaboy, Ikwe Egedi, Jonathan Wankpaliba, Tomunu Wankpaliba, Arthor Jonathan and eight others, who felt dissatisfied with the verdict of Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt, had appealed to the Supreme Court for a reversal.