FOLLOWING its series of free cleft lip/palate surgeries for 30 indigent Nigerians in Ondo, Ekiti and Lagos States, as well as the provision of microcredit facilities, education grants/scholarships and other charitable activities for the less privileged in Nigeria, the Health, Education, Work and Shelter (HEWS) Foundation, is expanding its scope of activities in the new year.

HELLO Hakeem, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Welcome to Vanguard. Your Bloody Democracy is a descriptive masterpiece. The core implication of your painstaking observations, for me, is the following:

Lionel Messi was on Monday awarded the 2011 FIFA Ballon d’Or at a star-studded ceremony in Zurich, the third consecutive year that he has won the prestigious award for the world’s outstanding footballer.

The recent deregulation of the downstream oil and gas sector and the attendant hike in the cost of fuel and energy would undoubtedly eat deeply into family and corporate purses. Against this backdrop, a Lagos-based Architect, Mr. Emeka Izuwah has advised families to adopt energy saving measures to cushion some of the biting effects of the fuel subsidy removal.

Members of the All Progressives Grand Alliance Europe-United Kingdom, UK Chapter have commended the recent verdict of the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja for upholding the election of Governor Rochas Okorocha.