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.