Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Fashola Advocates Creation Of Database For Mobile Phone Subscribers.
Fashola Advocates Creation Of Database For Mobile Phone Subscribers
Jun 23, 2009 - Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Tuesday advocated the creation of a database in which all mobile telephone subscribers can become identifiable.
Governor Fashola who spoke during a courtesy visit by the Chief Executive Officer of Etisalat, Mr. Steven Evans at Lagos House, Ikeja added that while the government is evolving policies to ensure that every SIM card owner can be identified, Etisalat as a new entrant should take an innovative lead by establishing a system through which no SIM card is sold without an identity of the name and contact details of the person who owns the SIM being collected in a database.
He added that Telephone networks and World Wide Web (W.W.W) despite its advantages is also prone to be deployed to unsavoury uses, one of which is the issue of anonymous phone calls and text messages to law abiding citizens.
Said he: “The Information gateway now can be a very volatile and dangerous weapon which must be controlled from getting into anonymous hands. We can create a database in which everyone becomes accountable for one another”http://www.tundefashola.com/archives/news/2009/06/23/20090623N01.html
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Lagos imposes tax on food consumption, services
LAGOS State Government, on Monday, signed into law a bill to impose tax on food consumption and services at hotels, restaurants and event places.
With this, anybody who buys consumable goods or gets service at hotel and restaurant, pays five per cent of the purchase or the service.
According to the Special Adviser to the Governor on Legislative and Political Powers Bureau, Mr. Abdulkareem Abdullateef, the hotels include, a motel, guest house, apartment for short-time letting, while event centres include; hall, auditorium and open spaces and all other places dedicated as public.
Presenting the bill for signing, Abdullateef said that defaulter would be liable to two years imprisonment or N2 million option of fine or both.
According to him, managements of the hotels and restaurants had been appointed as agents to collect the taxes, while the Lagos Internal Revenue Service would be in charge of the administration of the law.
Abdullateef stated that the law stipulated that every hotel and restaurant must register with the Lagos Internal Revenue Service to effectively implement the law.
He stated that government would begin to operate the law 30 days from when it was signed, calling on all to cooperate with the government.
To address issue of double taxation, the special adviser said that the hotel and other affected restaurants had been exempted from sales tax in the state.
“It’s not going to be business as usual, before any government ministry, agency or local government officials can enter into any contractual relationship with any hotel, restaurant, event centre, there is a condition precedence and it is that such an event centre must produce an evidence of registration with LIRS,” he said.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Lagos Shuts Church, Two Others.
June 17, 2009 14:40 (1 hour ago)
By Kazeem Ugbodaga
The Lagos state government, this morning, shut down Holy Life Bible Church, Abule Egba and two companies, over noise and gas pollution.
Officials of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA), accompanied by task force officials, stormed the church and shut it down over noise from loudspeakers and air pollution from generators. LASEPA officials, led by Mr. Kayode Bello, made the church to sign a sanction document that the church will put things in place to correct the anomalies before it would be reopened.
LASEPA had earlier served the church an abatement notice which it failed to comply with before the closure. The team also shut down Current Bakery, Ilasa, over noise pollution, while Perfect Packaging Company was also shut down over the same reason and gaseous pollution. The closure of the church, according to the Lagos state government, signalled the commencement of enforcement of the state law against noise pollution in churches and other places.
The general manager, LASEPA, Engr. Rasheed Shabi, had warned that the state would no longer tolerate a situation where churches and mosques in the state disturb Lagosians with noise from their megaphones. He had warned that any church or mosque found to violate the LASEPA edict on noise pollution would be sanctioned and shut down. Rasheed, who spoke at a meeting with religious leaders in the state, urged the churches and mosques to ensure that their loud speakers were used inside their churches in order not to disturb the public.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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