President Goodluck Jonathan Tuesday explained why most Nigerians believed that his administration was slow in implementing and responding to some of the people-oriented policies and projects of the government.

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AS the country joins the rest of the world to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ today, President Goodluck Jonathan has urged the citizenry to expect massive improvements in power supply, public infrastructure, healthcare, education and job creation among others next year.

No fewer than 38 electricity generating turbines are grounded in various power plants in the country, Vanguard investigations can reveal.

These technically faulty gas turbines, as a result, are unable to generate their required power output, thus compounding Nigeria’s already poor electricity supply situation.

Peter Odemwingie has reacted angrily to being omitted from Nigeria’s Africa Cup of Nations squad.

President Goodluck Jonathan, Sunday, assured Nigerians that despite the various challenges facing the country, his government was determined to ensure that next year would be better than the previous years.

Crime prevention is the anticipation, recognition and appraisal of a crime risk/vulnerability and the initiation of a positive action to remove or reduce the crime. The Christmas and the New Year is around the corner again. Christmas is a busy time of the year for almost everyone, including the criminal. Christmas and New Year appears to be peak periods were crime rate are always on the increase. This is a period most persons are vulnerable to criminal activities.

The late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, willed all his money to his wife, Mrs. Bianca Odinaka Olivia Odumegwu-Ojukwu, according to the bromide of his will exclusively obtained by Sunday Vanguard.

KIDNAPPING (read man-stealing) has metamorphosed into such a very big industry in Delta State that it currently has a
loose association, comprising graduates and undergraduates with an organized set-up and leadership.

Last Thursday morning, President Jonathan Goodluck sat under a giant rotund canopy among some of Nigeria’s most important political leaders in the remote Fadadn Kagoma village, in Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State, as part of record breaking crowd in the history of the village, for a grim event as Kaduna State first and only Christian to be elected governor, Sir Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, was being buried after 64 years on earth.

DISTURBED by the parlous state of affairs in the country, some eminent Igbo leaders have proffered suggestions on how to get the country back on the track of socio-economic and political development.

Former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher, has warned that the activities of Boko Haram, kidnapping, armed robbery and other social upheavals in the country were drifting Nigeria towards a failed state.

Chike Egbo, the 25-year-old student at Enugu State College of Education, who was bathed with acid by her estranged fiancé, David Suleiman, in November, has been reported dead.

Part of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos was on Thursday gutted by fire.

Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd) and Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, yesterday, relived events preceding the take off of the ill-fated Navy helicopter that crashed last Saturday in Bayelsa State, killing former Kaduna State Governor, Mr Patrick Yakowa and former National Security Adviser, General Andrew Azazi and four others. They said they escaped death by the whiskers as they were scheduled to board the ill-fated helicopter.