{"id":68271,"date":"2013-06-28T17:12:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T16:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=68271"},"modified":"2013-06-28T17:12:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T16:12:47","slug":"cell-phone-dealers-make-case-for-permanent-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=68271","title":{"rendered":"Cell phone Dealers Make Case For Permanent  Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Telecommunication dealers in Rivers State have called on the state government to provide a permanent site for them to expand their making the call at a retail outlet along Aba\/Port Harcourt Express Way, a dealer Mrs Ihuoma Amadi said the present location has become too tight for them.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">She said most dealers now operate from their homes due to lack of space in the market.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Amadi said that, it a permanent site was allocated to them, it will not only address their present plight, but would also solve unemployment issue as more people would join the business.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">She explained that most school leavers\/graduates now find it easy to be self-employ than roaming the streets in search of white collar jobs which according to her were hard to come by.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The cell phone dealer, said they had recently written to the state government about the present predicament but were yet to be replied.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Others told our reporter that part of their plights was the multiple taxation they experience from the leadership of Obio\/Akpor Local Governemnt Council.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">He alleged that they admitted pay hugev amount of money to the OBALGA coffers annually, but regretted that it remained adamant to their plight.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">They hinted that they will prefer any strategic plot along Aba\/Port Harcourt Express Way, to enable customers locate them with ease.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Meanwhile, the dealers hare also enrouted their appealthrough commissioner for lands\/Survey, Hon Barr Ezemonye Ezekiel-Amadi to the state government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecommunication dealers in Rivers State have called on the state government to provide a permanent site for them to expand their making the call at a retail outlet along Aba\/Port Harcourt Express Way, a dealer Mrs Ihuoma Amadi said the present location has become too tight for them. She said most dealers now operate from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icttelecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}