Fidelity Bank Plc has announced a profit before tax of N7.67 billion for the 2011 financial year. This, according to a statement by the bank, announcing its year end, December 31, 2011, financial result, represents a decline of 11.3 per cent from N8.65 billion recorded in the 2010 financial year.

An Australian company, Gazal, has launched Bisley protective wears into the Nigerian market. Speaking during the unveiling of the products, the company’s Executive Director, Mr. David Gazal, said: “We always put the safety of our workers into consideration and that is why we have created these treated work wears that would keep individuals safe in their places of work and even in their homes.”

The Institute of Directors, IoD, has lamented the high cost of do-ing business in Nigeria, saying it has brought to the fore the need to reposition Nigeria to make it competitive in the global economic landscape.

A self-employed person either calculates his tax based on all his sources of income or having been assessed by the relevant tax authority makes payment as may be prescribed the tax authority.

Commissioner for Insurance, Mr. Fola Daniel, in this interview with Favour Nnabugwu says that the present day insurance companies’ abilities to settle claims is competitive to rank among the top notch companies in Africa. Daniel says the nation’s insurance sector premium rates are not regulated hence cannot be deregulated.