Fidelity Bank plc yesterday declared a profit after tax of N18.2 billion for its financial year ended December 31, 2012, just as it approved a dividend of 21 kobo per share to its shareholders.

The Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Dele J. Ezeoba may have set for him set a target to accomplish the presidential directives to contain the acts of piracy, armed robbery in the high seas, stealing and shipping away of crude oil and illegal shipment of arms within the country’s territorial waters, but the big questions remains unanswered.

Senator Sonni Ogbuoji representing Ebonyi South senatorial district in the Senate in this interview bares his mind on the imperative of the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, on the welfare of the Niger Delta region, the dilapidated state of the Abakaliki-Afikpo expressway despite the huge funds ploughed into the project and the need for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to remain focussed ahead of the 2015 general election. Excerpts:

Former Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sen. Ahmadu Alli has identified poor funding performance as the major factor militating against the growth and survival of the Nigerian Postal Service.

The uncertainty in life is what makes insurance so important. Although we can never predict what will happen to us, with the right insurance policies we can recover from our financial losses. This is because the insurance company will share the risk with us, to provide us enough security.