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For Classic Delicacies: Bourbon House Café Hits Town with a Bang
By Eric Elezuo
If you are looking for a place, so cozy, reserved and free from intoxication, for relaxation and to get your head cleared of hassles, a new and excellent café has arrived town. It is the Bourbon House Café, situated in the heartbeat of the highbrow Victoria Island, Lagos.
With an excellent recipe of the best of quality and high class sumptuous dishes, wide range of smoothies, drinks and superior quality coffee, the café, in the cleanest of environments with state of the art equipment and utensils, is home to everyone who desires the good life.
Bourbon House Café serves breakfast, lunch, dinner and desserts in that same way you love it.
Opened on March 24, 2019 by none other than the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mu’azu Zubairu, the home away from home meeting point is located on 741 Adeola Hopewell Street, Victoria Island.
Speaking to PointBlank, the manager of the outfit, Miss Halima Adeleke confided that the café among other functionalities is suitable for business meetings as a result of its quiet and serene disposition.
“We don’t do alcohol and the environment is so serene…those are some of the qualities that stand the café out among others. More so, there is a mini boardroom where matters of importance can be discussed under the most interesting and private atmosphere,” she said.
Spacious and accommodating, the café is nature endowed as the lawns are laced with synthetic grass. It presents a suitable space for mini big boys party or get-together amidst very affordable and dependable security.
Bourbon House Café has remained home to distinguished personalities in the society prominent among them is Nollywood star, John Dumello; prolific On Air Personality, Toke Makinwa among others.
Apart from serving your best quality dishes, Bourbon House offers outdoor services and will deliver at whatever location. It also provides table and board games such as Chess, Scrabble, Monopoly among others to keep guests and diners well occupied and entertained.
Where would you rather be…Bourbon House Café is the place…the very best place!
Call 0810 444 2239 for your bookings now.
A former President of the Senate, and chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, Senator Adolphus Wabara, has accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of pushing Nigerians into poverty.
Wabara said the economic policies of Tinubu’s administration have worsened hardship across Nigeria.
He spoke during the board’s emergency meeting in Abuja on Thursday, saying: “The skyrocketing cost of living, coupled with poorly implemented economic reforms, has pushed millions into deeper poverty.”
Wabara stressed the importance of prioritising party unity and collective progress over personal ambitions.
“We cannot afford to let personal ambitions or differences overshadow our shared vision for a better Nigeria,” he added.
The Federal Government has fired some civil servants with degrees from private tertiary institutions in Benin Republic and Togo, according to The Punch report.
The directive affected federal workers who graduated from the institutions from 2017 to date.
The Director of Information and Public Relations in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Segun Imohiosen, confirmed the development to one of our correspondents on Wednesday.
In August, the Federal Government announced that only eight universities had been accredited to award degrees to Nigerians in Togo and Benin Republic.
This followed an undercover investigation report in which a Daily Nigerian journalist acquired a degree from a university in Benin Republic in two months and used it to participate in the National Youth Service Corps scheme.
Following the report, the government banned the accreditation and evaluation of degrees from tertiary institutions in Benin Republic and Togo.
The Federal Government also set up an Inter-Ministerial Investigative Committee on Degree Certificate Milling to probe the activities of certificate racketeers.
The then Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, revealed that over 22,500 Nigerians obtained fake degree certificates from Benin Republic and Togo and such certificates would be cancelled.
Mamman explained that the revelation was part of a report submitted to the Federal Executive Council by the investigative committee instituted to probe degree certificate racketeering by foreign and local universities in Nigeria.
He insisted there was no going back on the Federal Government’s decision to cancel the about 22,500 certificates awarded to Nigerians by some “fake” universities in the two francophone countries.
Mamman maintained that the decision to invalidate the certificates was not harsh as Nigerians who obtained degree certificates from such tertiary institutions dent the country’s image.
He said, “Most of those parading the fake certificates didn’t even leave the shores of Nigeria but got their certificates through racketeering in collaboration with government officials at home and abroad.
“The fake universities capitalised on the gullibility of Nigerians patronising such fake schools. The Federal Government, through the offices of the Head of Civil Service and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, would fish out those in the government’s employment with such fake certificates. I also urge the private sector to follow suit.”
Although the exact number of affected civil servants could not be ascertained, it was gathered that the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (Cabinet Affairs) had issued a memo to all the Ministries, Departments, and Agencies to implement the order.
A source, who pleaded anonymity because she was not authorised to speak on the matter, told The Punch that the sacking of the affected workers was based on the inter-ministerial committee’s recommendation.
The official stated, “There was a letter from the SGF cabinet affairs directing all ministries, departments and agencies of government to identify and terminate the appointments of workers employed with certificates obtained from the private universities in the Republic of Benin and Togo from 2017 to date.
“The decision is part of the recommendations of the committee set up to investigate the certificates of people who graduated from the universities.”
Our correspondent also gathered that some agencies like the National Youth Services Corps have commenced the implementation of the directive.
The NYSC Director of Information, Caroline Embu, confirmed to our correspondent that five members of staff had been sacked in line with the SGF’s directive.
She said, “Five members of staff were affected by the directive contained in the letter from the office of the SGF. No more.”
