Managing Director of Mainstreet Bank, Faith Tuedor-Matthews has lauded the Federal Government’s Agricultural Transformation Agenda in introducing the Growth Enhancement Support Scheme (GESS). She acknowledged that GESS has offered an effective framework for supporting small farmers who are the ultimate drivers of food production and agricultural development in Nigeria.

The Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, has urged the Tax Appeal Tribunal to join the Nigerian Customs Service, NSC, as defendants in the N3.5 million tax dispute with Orchid Nigeria Ltd. Orchid, an Abuja-based company, had sued the NCS and the FIRS at the tribunal sitting in Abuja over non-refund of N3.5 million Value Added Tax, VAT.

What will be the consequences of President Barack Obama’s failure to get the needed domestic and international support to punish Syria’s President Bashar Assad for gassing his own citizens with serum and other deadly chemicals? That is the million dollar poser before Americans and the global community who are watching the outpouring of emotions on both sides for and against the impending military strike on Damascus.

PETROLEUM and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan, urging him to personally intervene in the alarming crude oil theft and pipeline vandalism in the country, to save the nation’s economy from collapse.

– James Sangala, captain of the Flames of Malawi, said on Sunday that Super Eagles’ ability to play with full confidence gave them victory in their meeting on Saturday in Calabar.

The people of Agbani in Nkanu-West local government area of Enugu State have petitioned Governor Sullivan Chime over plans by a top official of Nkanu local council, Mr. Ekene Okenwa, to impose a candudate for the forthcoming council poll in the state.

CHAIRMAN of Gladtrico International Limited, Chief Eric Ebozele, weekend, advocated citadel fencing of areas where pipelines are located nationwide.

RECENTLY, Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State removed Mr. Umana Okon Umana, former secretary to the state government, from office. While tongues were wagging on the reasons or motives for the sack, the state’s Commissioner for Information, Mr. Aniekan Umana, in a paid advertorial stated that the former SSG was sacked because he refused to resign even while nursing a political ambition or campaigning to contest the Governorship election of Akwa Ibom State in 2015.

Cameroon claimed the 10th and final place in Africa’s final qualifying round for the 2014 World Cup The Indomitable Lions beat Libya 1-0 in a winner-takes-all showdown in Yaounde on Sunday.

Wrestling has won back its spot as an Olympic sport and will be contested at both the 2020 and 2024 Games.