Tantalizers Plc has recorded significant decline in its top and bottom line in its half year financial performance, with a 68.69 per cent drop in its profit after tax.

Wema Bank Plc has announced a profit after tax of N1.0 billion in its half-year unaudited financial statement, for the period ended, June 30, 2010, this was in comparison to a loss after tax of N47.58 billion for the similar period in 2009.

A retired Army General, Josesph Okoloagu has shot dead a member of a kidnap gang that attempted to abduct him in Aba, Abia State on Monday.

Esther was a brilliant girl. A girl I was looking forward to her becoming great in life. I struggled to ensure she went to school so that her father’s family members would not say I refused to send her to school. Her thought will forever linger in my memory.

The Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) has invested about N12.2 billion (Euro 16 million) in the development of a wind power project in Cape Verde.

Chairman, BGL Plc and former Minister of Finance, Dr. Kalu Idika Kalu has said that Nigerians would be favourably disposed to paying taxes if the revenues accruable from such taxes are judiciously utilised for socio-economic infrastructure development of the various parts of the country.

The National Association of Small Scale Industrialists (NASSI) has urged the Federal Government to adequately fund its financial institutions to ease the credit crunch being experienced by entreprenuers.

THE Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has disclosed that the Federal government has lose over N1billion to tax evaders in Ogun State, just as it warned that late payment of tax by corporate bodies would attract a fine of N25,000.

Six months is inadequate, we should be looking at a minimum of 18 months; for instance, the total population of Ghana is about 22 million while the total subscriber rate is about 11 million and they are looking at 12 to 18 months for registration exercise

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Delta says it has impounded two trucks laden with 48,000 litres of petroleum products.

THE estranged wife of the former Deji of Akureland, Olori Bolanle Adepoju yesterday appealed to the Ondo State government to forgive her husband and reinstate him

IF, as widely expected across political circles, Governor Liyel imoke, seeks for and wins a second term in 2012, he would have been in the full swing of a charmed political career at age 50.

AS the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade has doused tension created by the radical postures of governors of the two owner states of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, students of the institution have warned the governors to desist from further pronouncements capable of bringing anarchy on the campus.

FORMER Anambra State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Pandolla Okwuosa, has said that the emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan as president in 2011 will end perceived marginalization in the country.

Imo State government has reiterated its commitment to strengthen and place the judiciary in a vantage position to perform its constitutional duties.