Ikea is telling its customers to stop holding sleepovers in its stores.

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Staff Reporter

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The Swedish furniture company has warned its customers to stop trying to sneak into its beds for an overnight snooze.

Ikea said it has discovered at least 10 sleepover “incidents” in various countries over the past couple of months.

“We appreciate that people are interested in Ikea and want to create fun experiences, however the safety and security of our co-workers and customers is our highest priority and that’s why we do not allow sleepovers in our stores,” the company said in a statement on Thursday.

The Ikea sleepover apparently became a thing after two Belgian youngsters uploaded a video of themselves spending the night in one of the stores.

After eating some Swedish meatballs — a staple of Ikea dining — the two hid in cupboards until after closing time, then spent the night trying various bed models, ranking them according to comfort and the quality of jumping they provide.

The clip has been viewed 1.8 million times on YouTube and sparked a wave of copycat videos.

One such video shows three British teenagers getting arrested for trespassing. “We are in a deep s***,” one of them is heard as saying.

Arik to face Consumer Protection Council over alleged shoddy treatment of passengers

Posted on December 8, 2016 by Staff Reporter

The Consumer Protection Council, CPC, has summoned the management of Arik Airline to appear before it.

The summon followed complaints of alleged ill-treatment by passengers of a recent London-Abuja Arik flight. It is to allow the management of the airline provide facts relating to the allegations, the CPC said in a statement on Wednesday.

It would be recalled that Arik Air and no fewer than 40 aggrieved passengers have been at loggerheads over the non-arrival of their baggage, five days after their flight landed in Nigeria.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, the aggrieved passengers on Tuesday disrupted the airline’s operations and also allegedly damaged its check-in counter at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

Consequently, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, on Wednesday directed Arik Air to return all delayed baggage of the passengers within 24 hours and compensate the affected passengers with $150 each for their troubles.

In his reaction, the airline’s Associate Vice President, Ground Operations Department, Femi Kukoyi, apologised to the passengers.

While assuring them that an aircraft was en-route Lagos from London and would arrive with about 300 bags by 7 p.m., Mr. Kukoyi said that the remaining would be brought in by another of its aircraft by 5 a.m. on Thursday.

In its Wednesday statement, the Consumer Protection Council disclosed that those summoned to appear before it on December 19 are the airline’s Chief Executive Officer, Michael Ikhide; the Chief Operating Officer, Conor Prendergast; and the Managing Director, Chris Ndulue.

“The said passengers, many of whom had connecting flights to Cameroon, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Ibadan could not continue their journeys as a result of the non-arrival of their luggage from London, while some passengers on the said flights could not have access to personal supplies, baby food or medication,” the statement said.

It added that “Arik Air Ltd did not provide the passengers with temporary accommodation for transit; neither was there any customer service desk to assist the passengers in resolving their individual complaints.”

The council however disclosed that it had issued the summons in line with Sections 8, 15 and 18 of its enabling Act.

It would be recalled that on December 25 and 31, 2015 as well as January 9, 2016, Turkish Airlines had similar experience with its Flight 623 from Istanbul to Abuja. It, however, refused to respond to the Council’s summons and the ultimatum of the Attorney General of the Federation, leading to criminal prosecution of the airline and two of its principal officers for alleged criminal violation of the Consumer Protection Council (CPC) Act.

The Turkish Air prosecution has been fixed for February 9, 2017 for hearing.

MMM Will Lead To Losses, Access Bank Warns Customers

Posted on December 7, 2016 by Staff Reporter

Access Bank Nigeria Plc has warned its customers to avoid dealing with Mavrodi Mondial Movement, a Ponzi scheme, which has been declared illegal by the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The bank in an emailed statement to its customers said it had come to its attention “that some customers are engaged in the Ponzi scheme called ‘MMM’”.

“Please be advised that this scheme is not in line with any applicable or known investment product and may ultimately lead to loss of funds in the long run,” the bank warned.

“We advise that customers avail themselves of genuine and approved investments and products in the Nigerian banking environment.”

Despite the warning by the Federal Government, thousands of Nigerians have continued to patronise the scheme with its website ranking as one of the five most visited in the country, ahead of Facebook.

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Police intervention prevents lynching of bank MD by aggrieved customers

Posted on December 2, 2016 by Staff Reporter

The timely intervention of the police in Enugu prevented the lynching of Kingsley Ubenyi, the Managing Director of Kesley Mega Micro-Finance Bank, by the bank’s aggrieved customers on Friday.

The spokesman of the Police Command in Enugu, Ebere Amaraizu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the rescue of the bank’s boss came as a result of prompt intervention of a police patrol team after a security tip-off by some members of the public.

Mr. Amaraizu said the incident happened at about 5 p.m. on Wednesday at the De-Dome Event Centre in New Haven, Enugu.

He said reports reaching the police indicated that hundreds of aggrieved customers of the bank were seen striking the managing director, who was forced to sit in his vehicle, which was later damaged by the irate crowd.
“The aggrieved customers maintained that they are customers of the micro-finance bank and that despite repeated efforts to withdraw their money in their savings accounts with the bank, no light was seen at the end of the tunnel.

“Not long after, a meeting between the customers and the managing director was convened at De Dome event centre, New Haven, Enugu, where the bank boss tried to explain the difficulties faced by his bank over the payment of customers’ money.

“This (the explanation) did not go down well with the aggrieved customers, who got violent and descended heavily on him before the intervention of the police operatives,’’ he said.

Mr. Amaraizu, however, said the aggrieved customers were advised to be law-abiding and to seek redress by taking the lawful step to access their monies.

“The managing director is currently receiving treatment at a nearby hospital,’’ he said at the time of writing this report.

Police Intervenes In Close Lynching Of Micro-Finance Bank MD By Customers

Posted on December 2, 2016 by Staff Reporter

The timely intervention of the police in Enugu prevented the lynching of Mr Kingsley Ubenyi, the Managing Director of Kesley Mega Micro-Finance Bank, by the bank’s aggrieved customers on Friday.

The spokesman of the Police Command in Enugu, Mr Ebere Amaraizu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the rescue of the bank boss came as a result of prompt intervention of a police patrol team after a security tip-off by some members of the public.

Amaraizu said the incident happened at about 5 p.m. on Wednesday at the De-Dome Event Centre in New Haven, Enugu.

“The aggrieved customers maintained that they are customers of the micro-finance bank and that despite repeated efforts to withdraw their money in their savings accounts with the bank, no light was seen at the end of the tunnel.

“This (the explanation) did not go down well with the aggrieved customers, who got violent and descended heavily on him before the intervention of the police operatives,’’ he said.

Amaraizu, however, said the aggrieved customers were advised to be law-abiding and to seek redress by taking the lawful step to access their monies.

“The managing director is currently receiving treatment at a nearby hospital,’’ he said at the time of writing this report

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Japanese Spa Lets Customers Swim In A Pool Of Red Wine

Posted on November 16, 2016 by Staff Reporter

The Yunesson Spa Resort of Hakone, Japan offers the stuff of dreams — and by that, I obviously mean a giant outdoor pool filled with Merlot. How do they get that much wine in a pool? By pouring it from a 12-foot-tall bottle, of course…

While there’s definitely the novelty of diving head first into gallons of merlot, red wine also has a slew of anti-aging skin benefits — especially because it contains resveratrol, an antioxidant that stimulates cell proteins known as sirtuins, which promotes longer cell life in the body.

But if wine isn’t your cup of tea, the Japanese ~~spa~~ theme park has a pool filled with that too, along with hot tubs of sake, ramen noodles, and coffee for your swimming pleasure.

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Bank Manager, Accomplice Divert Customers’ N14m

Posted on August 12, 2016 by Staff Reporter

The police in Lagos have arrested an ex-manager of Ecobank Nigeria Plc, Ejigbo branch, 41-year-old Ikechukwu Aghanenu, for allegedly colluding with a suspected fraudster, Anthony Okpala, to defraud two customers of the bank of N14m.

The customers are Mrs. Oluremi Egunjobi (now late), and one Rabiu Lawal, who is based in the United Kingdom.

The suspects, who were arrested on Wednesday, reportedly diverted N4.014m from the deceased’s bank account 5323007058, while N10m was said to have been fraudulently withdrawn from Lawal’s account, 2741128259.

It was learnt that 34-year-old Okpala and one other suspect at large, had presented themselves to Aghanenu as the relatives of the deceased with some forged documents authorising the bank to release the sum.

It was gathered that the deal was perfected between September and November, 2015 and the money was withdrawn from late Egunjobi’s account.

Within the same period, the police said Okpala paraded himself as a business partner of Lawal and allegedly colluded with Aghanenu to withdraw N10m from Lawal’s account in tranches.

A police source said that investigation of the alleged fraud commenced after a lawyer to the deceased’s relatives and Lawal respectively lodged complaints to the bank, adding that the manager had been sacked.

The source said, “The bank reported the fraud to the police and in the course of investigation, it was discovered that the fraudulent transactions were carried out by Okpala with the knowledge of the ex-manager and others at large.

“Okpala presented himself and another suspect at the Ecobank’s branch in Ejigbo as relatives of the late Oluremi (Egunjobi) and instructed the bank to liquidate her account, which was done through the help of the ex-manager. But he (Aghanenu) denied knowing Okpala.

“The other victim, Lawal, works in UK and saves money at the bank with the hope of using the money to invest when he relocates to Nigeria. It was when he checked his account balance that he discovered the withdrawals and complained to the bank.”

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How Commercial Sex Workers In Delta Attack Customers Over Unpaid Bills

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Staff Reporter

Pandemonium broke out on Saturday at the popular cable point base of commercial sex workers in Asaba, Delta State when some commercial sex workers went berserk and allegedly attacked their customers over unpaid bills.

At the wake of the melee, it was reliably gathered that the commercial sex workers had resolved to increase their charges and had warned their customers who do not want to comply to steer clear of them but this was not to be as the victims claimed they were not put in the know of their new charges.

Eye witness, Ngozi Njeh said that a round of sex which used to be N1,000.00 was increased to N2,000 while a night often called ‘Day Break’ which used to be N5,000 was increased to N8,000; a situation the victims commercial sex workers.

It was further gathered that trouble started when the victims entered into one of the brothels (name with eld) as usual. At negotiations with the commercial sex workers, they agreed to pay for a night at N8,000 each.

Anabel Onweh, one of the commercial sex workers said “the victims agreed to pay us N8,000 each and we took them in, after using us, the following morning they were giving us N4,000 as against our bargain and we decided to attack them and beat them mercilessly because we know what brought us to this brothel’’.

Investigation revealed that the victims were allegedly subjected to drinking private part washing water after their clothes were torn and injuries inflicted on them before Police at the A-Division came to their rescue.

At the A-Division Police Station, an officer who gave his name as Raphael (Surname withheld) said “we moved into the brothel with our men when we heard a shouting match between the commercial sex workers and their customers and on interrogation we discovered the customers refused to pay their bills and the matter was resolved amicably.”

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BVN: Over 20.8 Million Customers Enroll 40 Million Bank Accounts, Ends Saturday

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Staff Reporter

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, said on Thursday that 20,833,635 bank customers enrolled over 40 million accounts in various banks in the country under the Bank Verification Number, BVN, registration exercise as at October 25, 2015.

The BVN registration introduced by the CBN on February 14, 2014 is scheduled to end on Saturday, October 31, 2015 across the country.

Implemented in collaboration with the Bankers’ Committee of the CBN, the BVN was initiated to provide unique identities for all bank customers and other users of financial services in the country.

The unique identity is established by the use of the customers’ biometrics as means of identification in all transactions undertaken with the banks.

At the expiration of the initial estimated 18 months period for the registration after the launch, there was huge apathy among bank customers, who were reluctant to register.

The poor appreciation of the benefits of the BVN resulted in last minute rush in most banking halls across the country towards the end of the June 30, 2015 deadline set by the CBN for enrolment by all customers.

The CBN extended the deadline by four months, till October 31, 2015, to allow more people register.

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BVN Deadline: Customers Congest Banks

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Staff Reporter

Many bank customers on Monday besieged their banks to collect their Bank Verification Number (BVN) a week to the deadline of the exercise. The BVN is for biometric registration of all bank customers in the country.

NAN reports that while many customers had done their registration, a good number is yet to comply with the Central Bank’s directive.

A cross section of customers who spoke to NAN said that they could not participate in the exercise early enough because of their crowded schedules.

A First Bank customer, Mrs Dorcas Atim, said that she was just delivered of a baby when the exercise commenced, hence her inability to do the verification earlier than now.

”I was doing everything by myself and as such I had little or no time to spare for other things other than my domestic chores which were time consuming,” she said.

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As Promised, FirstBank Rewards Over 1500 Customers With Cars and Other Gifts | Pictures

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Staff Reporter

It was a remarkable close to the FirstBank Savings Bonanza Draws on March 12, 2015 at the All Seasons Plaza, Agindigbi Ikeja. The ultimate giveaway of prizes spanning over 7 months saw more than 1,500 customers rewarded through the bonanza initiative. The event was mixed with laughter, fun challenges, popping of champagne for the winner, handing out of amazing prizes, and some “shoki and sekem” dance moves.

The exciting event was attended by the Group Head of Lagos Mainland, First Bank of Nigeria, Olufunke Smith; Group Head Products and Marketing Support, Biodun Famuyiwa; Manager of KPMG, Mr. Martins Olajide, pressmen, past beneficiaries from the quarterly and monthly draws as well as well-wishers.

According to the Group Head of Lagos Mainland FirstBank of Nigeria, Mrs. Olufunke Smith, “the FirstBank Savings Bonanza was a way of thanking the customers for their 120 Years of patronage and loyalty”. Past winners of the last draws, amongst who was a cash prize winner of N50, 000, Jonathan Okeleke and one of the grand car prize winners, Banji Ajuwon were also recognized.

Using this as an avenue to jumpstart the quarterly draws for the grand finale, past car prize winner; Banji Ajuwon was invited to extend his blessing by picking the first draw for the winners of the brand new Toyota Corolla cars, with 6 customers emerging as car winners. Other draws were made to select the winners for the 50,000 cash prize, home theatres, LCD televisions and Samsung Galaxy Phones.

To ensure winners from the draws knew the status of the prizes, winners were reached via phone calls. When one of the winners of the Toyota Corolla cars, Mrs Ebisan Onyema was called, she did not believe it was for real as she thought it was a scam. A vehicle was sent to her place of residence to convey her to the event venue and was welcomed with cheers from the crowd upon her arrival. She was very emotional and totally lost for words and when asked when she wanted her car, she said “Monday, 16 March 2015”.

As promised, one of the six cars won at the draws was presented on Monday 16 of March 2015 at the First Bank Nigeria Head Office at Marina, Lagos. The GMD, Bisi Onasanya who was on hand to deliver the car to the winner, Mrs Ebisan Onyema stated that “FirstBank enjoys rewarding its customers and will always keep to words and promises made”.

For the winner, Mrs Onyema who has been a FirstBank customer for 25 years, she couldn’t believe it when she was told she had won a car and her bankers didn’t believe it either. According to her, “People can now see and understand why I am running to FirstBank, FirstBank is truly the best and everybody should have an account with them” she added joyfully.

Amongst those who attended the car presentation event were senior executives of FirstBank and the cast of soon to be launched TV series, “Before 30” which included actress Damilola Adegbite-Attoh and Anee Icha. Also on ground were Noble Igwe and other notable media personalities.

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