Following last week’s launch of the clean-up exercise of Ogoniland in Rivers State by the Federal Government, the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, has said that it will take between 25 to 30 years for the natives of the degraded land to enjoy a fresh and clean environment.

THE management of Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State has set up an eight-man committee to investigate the immediate and remote causes of the mayhem in the polytechnic perpetrated last week during the students protest.

Tributes for Nigerian legend Stephen Keshi, who passed on in the early hours of Wednesday at the age of 54 are still running strongly, with President Muhammadu Buhari, acting President Yemi Osinbajo, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Keshi’s Delta State and former NFF president Dominic Oneya among those who have mourned the elegant maestro.

Organised labour has described as unacceptable the recent trend of mass retrenchment of workers in the banking sector, saying the development was making working in the industry dangerously precarious.

Given Governor Ayodele Fayose’s infatuations with President Muhammadu Buhari, it is a surprise to many that the former army general now at the helm of affairs of the country has largely ignored him. Well, not so if the governor’s leading supporters and aides are to be believed. Indeed, if any, the All Progressives Congress, APC, led federal administration is tightening the noose around the Ekiti State governor, some of the partisans of Mr. Fayose told Vanguard during a courtesy visit to Vanguard last weekend.

D CHARLES Ikedikwa Soeze was a quintessential statesman, patriot, paragon of altruism, Catholic communicant, administrative guru. Gentle in manner, resolute in action, an impeccable exemplification of contentment and like August Caeser, he met Rome (The World) of bricks, but left it of marble.

The Department of State Services may invite the Chief of Staff to Ekiti State governor, Mr Dipo Anisulowo, a lawyer; Deputy Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Segun Adewumi; the Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Gboyega Aribisogan; the Chairman of the House Committee on Health, Dr. Samuel Omotosho; and the Special Assistant to the Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, to explain their role in the letter addressed to President Xi Jinping of China, asking the latter to stop a loan of $2 billion to Nigeria ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari visit to China last April.

THAT Governor Udom Emmanuel inherited one of the best road networks in the country was not in any doubt. How he is moving the state forward is the challenge many stakeholders are now looking at which will determine his legacy.

Vanguard Newspapers and 1,258 other organisations, including healthcare organisations, individuals, non-governmental organisations and Foundations nationwide have been nominated for the Nigerian Healthcare Excellence Awards (NHEA). Nominations for various award categories are still ongoing.

EXACTLY one year since Bauchi born Barrister Yakubu Dogara emerged as Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, yesterday, commissioned the multi-million naira Oteri Road project in Ughelli, Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state.

The people of Opuekeba community, Warri North Local Government Council of Delta State, yesterday, faulted a recent publication credited to the Director of Air Force Public Relations, Group Captain Ayodele Famuyiwa, that their community (Opuekeba) is located in Ondo State, saying, “Our Opuekeba community is in Delta State.”

The Garden city of Port-Harcourt, the Rivers State capital will be in the spotlight from tomorrow, as African movie stars, film makers, socialites and business leaders storm there for this year’s edition of the prestigious Africa Movie Academy Awards,AMAA, which holds at the Obi Wali International Conference Centre, Port Harcourt. At the moment, the oil-rich city is bubbling with life, as the movie stars have started arriving there in their tens of thousands ahead of tomorrow’s awards night.

Meanwhile, on the readiness of the state to host the guests coming from over 40 countries within and outside the shores of Africa, Mr. Anih said, Governor Wike and his government have made adequate arrangement to ensure that visitors and residents in the state live in peace and harmony.

A Niger Delta activist from Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, Mrs Doris Esiemighan, has sued for peace in the oil-rich Niger Delta region where militants have been attacking oil installations.