Forte partners MTN on customer service

Forte Oil Plc, an indigenous marketer of refined petroleum products has reached a partnership agreement with MTN Nigeria, a telecommunications company to jointly improve customers’ experience through the provision of Walk In Service Everywhere (W.I.S.E) kiosks at selected Forte service stations nationwide.

  This partnership aligns with Forte Oil Plc’s vision of making its retail outlets a one-stop shop for robust customers’ shopping experience, beyond refueling of vehicles.

  At the W.I.S.E kiosks, Forte customers who are MTN subscribers can now enjoy a complete customer care service such as sim swaps, bill payments, sim registration, query resolutions, sale of airtime and other bouquet services right on the forecourt in addition to fuels and lubricants purchases as well as sundry services such as groceries, laundry, car wash and auto repair.

  In the first phase of the project, MTN will deploy 100 W.I.S.E kiosks to selected service stations nationwide. This is poised to increase significantly to 200 at the second phase of the deployment exercise.

  Commenting on the partnership, the Group Chief Executive Officer, Forte Oil PLC, Akin Akinfemiwa said: “As the foremost indigenous oil marketing company,  Forte Oil Plc is constantly seeking opportunities to meet and surpass our customers’ needs through the provision of value add services.   

 “The partnership with MTN reinforces that vision whilst affirming our commitment to superior service delivery as a testimony of our partnership with MTN, the foremost telecommunications company in Nigeria. With this partnership, our customers who are subscribers to the network will be able to reduce their commuting time and cost in attending to their telecommunication requirements by visiting Forte Oil Plc retail outlets.”

  Chief Executive Officer of MTN, Michael Ikpoki, said: “At MTN, relationship is a core value and the hallmark for driving our vision of providing first class services to our customers. We are always on the lookout for like mind organisations who share same vision of leadership and innovative approach to bringing our products and services closer to our customers in a way that enriches their lives.

  “We are proud of the partnership with Forte Oil PLC, a young dynamic organisation, who shares a lot of our values, especially in the provision of superior service delivery. We are pleased to leverage their network of over 500 stations nationwide and their 24hour service in key locations to ensure that our products and services are brought closer to our dear customers.”

By Adeniyi Idowu Adunola

CDWR urge labour union to stop Contract staffing

A non-governmental group, the Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) has urged the labour union to stop casualization and contract staffing but fight for decent work on a living wages.

The group said, “the privatization of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) by the Federal Government is never a solution to the crisis in the power sector, but is an act of insensitivity by the Federal Government to the interests of the poor workers who have been casualzed since the handover of the company to private hand.

The Public Secretary of the CDWR, Chinedu Bosah, lamented recently during a rally in Lagos said the only solution to electricity is to keep PHCN a public sector concern and subjecting it to transparent and democratic management by workers and elected community

According to him Increment in tariffs and outright deregulation are part of the consequences of move towards the privatization of PHCN. The argument of the government is that price increment and total deregulation of electricity tariff would attract the “foreign investors”.

He said the construction workers are also facing a scenario, “in the construction sector the mass of workers to subjectcontract staffing and casualization and Nigerian companies now implement the anti-workers practices. Safety and health condition by the construction companies are not observed.”

By Adeniyi Idowu Adunola

Visualize to materialize

You probably have already heard about the wonderful benefits of visualizing your future.

You already know that visualization helps you to draw your dreams forward.

But what happens if you have no idea how to begin visualizing?

Maybe, you find it hard to relax. 

Or, even as you sit, you find your thoughts going all over the place – from planning your daily activities to wondering what your kids are up to. 

You just find it hard to focus.

Well, all is not lost.

You could do with some help 

Group Inaugurates New Executives

CHRISTIAN Ministers Welfare Initiatives (CMWI) also known as Men of God, on Friday inaugurated it new executives both at the national and state levels.

  At the inauguration service held at Zatem Hotel Suites, Lagos, the President, Apostle Daniel Aderemi Adebiyi, said, '“we must all be prepared to work together, as good servant and steward of God. God has chosen us for a glorious purpose, to be partners and partakers of the vision. Be assured that our drive, work and vision will never cease to lift us into the present of God.”

 Adebiyi urged members of the group, which is not-for-profit Christian group, to always seek God first and contribute to God's work.

CMWI Caption

Vice president, south west Nigeria, Christian Ministers Welfare  Initiatives (CMWI) Apostle, Ojo Feyisitan (right) Global President, Apostle, Daniel A. Adebiyi, vice president, south south, Pastor, Ebere Imuseh and Director, Spiritual Affairs, Prophet, Samuel A. Aina at the Inauguration of presidency members, National and State Executives of CMWI in Lagos                     PHOTO: FEMI ADEBESIN-KUTI

  “Let your consistency and faithfulness in giving and serving God be real, sowing into the fertile and faithful ground of CMWI is sowing for heavenly mansion. Let us run and drive the vision to our promised land,” he said.

By Adeniyi Idowu Adunola

Who are you listening to?

If you want to become successful who would you listen to? Would you listen to your neighbor who works at Walmart as a cashier? Would you listen to someone who is a plumber?

When many people hear you are working in marketing or MLM they quickly and freely give you advice. Yet they themselves have either never tried it or they have tried and failed at it. Does failing at a business mean that the business is bad? Not always, it can mean that the person who failed didn't have what it takes. They didn't put forth the necessary effort.

To become successful you would listen to someone who is already successful right? It just makes sense. They will teach you the steps to success. It's up to you at that point to follow them.

If you were trying to reach a certain destination and didn't have clear instructions on how to arrive there, you might stop and ask someone who knew the way. They would more than likely point you in the RIGHT direction, and even maybe help you find a FASTER route. If you were in Cleveland and need to find a certain place, you wouldn't ask another person visiting Cleveland right? Who would you ask? A resident of course, someone who knew their way around very well in that area.

When you want to know your way around very well in Marketing, you wouldn't ask someone new to it. You'd ask someone who dwells in it consistently and has been in it for awhile. Because they know it well, they can point you in the RIGHT direction and help you find a FASTER route to success.

I'll see you at the top!
This is so true.