Lagos State Government, yesterday, said it lost over N3.75billion revenue from hotel licensing in the last six years as a result of the court case by the Federal Government in 2007.
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Until the Supreme Court judgment on Friday, the Federal Government had claimed that only the Nigeria Tourism Development Corporation, NTDC, could regulate, register, license and grade the hospitality industry.
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Commissioners for Tourism and Inter Governmental Relations as well as Information and Strategy, Oladisun Holloway and Lateef IBirogba, respectively, announced this at a briefing yesterday on last Friday judgment by the Supreme Court over the control of tourism and hotel regulation.
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The Supreme Court had on Friday, dismissed the case by the Federal Government in which it contended that only NTDC could regulate, register, license and grade the hospitality industry.
Why must Nigeria always lose and not win...That is nothing to write home about at all. We have to change that fact about this country. It's rare for us to WIN....