IN the first half of 2017, Porsche AG increased its operating result, revenue, deliveries and number of employees. Six months into the year, Porsche’s operating result has reached 2.1 billion euro, an increase of 16 per cent. Revenue rose by eight per cent to 11.8 billion euro. The company’s profit margin came to 18.1 per cent (prior half year: 16.8 per cent), while the number of deliveries rose by seven per cent to 126,497 vehicles. The company’s workforce increased by twelve per cent to 29,280 employees.

By Theodore Opara FROM 2019, a Porsche  works team will compete in Formula E. As a result, the company will be ending its involvement in the LMP1 class of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) at the end of the 2017 season. Porsche maintains its focus on international GT racing, and will also concentrate its […]

Mr Eugene Inaoghan has assured Deltans that his appointment as Senior Special Assistant to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on Special Duties will spur him to do more in the area of empowering his people.

LAST week, I complained about the Senate’s failure to act on widespread calls for restructuring by refusing to pass bills relating to proposed devolution of legislative powers to states and proposed deletion of the Land Use Act from the Constitution.

THE people of Oghede Community in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State, yesterday, protested to the palace of the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare 11 and the state Government House, alleging brutality in the hands of members of the Nigerian Army at Ekenwa barrack.

THE Maritime Police Command seems to have ignored the executive order by acting President Yemi Osinbajo, directing all agencies at the ports to work together to ensure 24 hours port operations. Importers told Vanguard Maritime that officials of the Command position themselves at various port terminals to demand between N20,000 and N50,000 from owners of cargoes through their agents.

NIGERIAN cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, has declared his intentions to employ the services of armed men to provide security for him, as a photo he recently took with a fan was leaked while he’s holidaying in the United States.

The National president of Anwar-ul-Islam Movement of Nigeria, Barrister Mubashir Ojelade has said that the hue and cry about islamisation of the country by the Christians was only a cheap blackmail, invalid claim urging them to redirect their energies towards meaningful things that will ensure peaceful coexistence of all citizens. Barrister Ojelade in an interview with Facing the Kabaa maintained that although government should have consulted widely before taking decision on IRK and CRK as distinctive subjects in secondary schools, adding that a situation where sixteen subjects are being offered at junior secondary school level was unacceptable. Excerpts:

THE Children of Nigeria are among the many in developing nations that have a bleak or even no future judging by what our leaders are doing in the nation.

It was another world record in Nigeria as a six-year-old boy, Salim Abdulkareem in just less than a year memorized the holy Qur’an and can also write it.