By Udeme Akpan, Energy Editor TECHNICALLY, there are very few businessmen in Africa with tremendous capacity like Mr. George Onafowokan, the Managing Director/CEO of Coleman Technical Industries Limited, who is also the immediate past chairman of the Electrical and Electronic Sector of the Manufacturers’ Association of Nigeria, MAN. Unlike many investors who simply import and […]

By JEREMIAH UROWAYINO, Assistant Online Editor THE Group Managing Director, of UTM Offshore Limited, UTMOL, Mr. Julius Rone, OFR, fondly called ‘The Gas King’, has lived up to that title when he took the bold steps toward the implementation of Nigeria’s first floating liquefied natural gas, FLNG, facility. This, which is in line with the Federal […]

Sights and sounds of Vanguard’s Decade of Excellence award celebrations

SINCE great men and women look very different at different times, readers deserve to know editors’ definition of greatness in a year disrupted by alarming insecurity and falling standard of living.

Borno’s Deputy Governor, Umar Usman Kadafur was in Lagos on Saturday night during which he received Vanguard Newspapers’ highest category of award, which is Personality of the Year, 2020, jointly won by Governor Babagana Umara Zulum and his counterpart, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

By Ndujihe Clifford Chief Nike Akande, who chaired the event Dr Ebenezer Obey-Fabiyi Amb Shehu Malami Pastor Abba Peter, who represented Dr Christopher Kolade Prof Anya O Anya Obong Victor Attah Chief Arthur Mbanefo Chief Ayo Adebanjo Gen Ike Nwachukwu retd Mr Godwin Emefiele Chief Jimoh Ibrahim Chief Supo Sonibare Mr. Tunji Bello Oba Frederick […]

By Clifford Ndujihe, Dapo Akinrefon & Olasunkanmi Akoni Former Minister of Industries, Dr Nike Akande; Ondo State Governor, Alakunrin, Rotimi Akeredolu and others, yesterday, heaped plaudits on Vanguard, saying its annual personality of the year awards have helped to raise hope for Nigeria. According to them, celebrating and honouring role models based on merit have […]

By Clifford Ndujihe Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu; his Borno counterpart, Professor Babagana Zulum; as well as Business Tycoon and Philanthropist, Mr Femi Otedola, and others shone brilliantly at the Vanguard Personality awards, on Saturday. Otedola is Vanguard’s 2019 personality of the year recipient while Sanwo-Olu and Zulum are the 2020 joint personalities of […]



Players in the Organized Private Sector, OPS, last week called on the Federal Government to improve on the country’s human development index, HDI, by granting import waivers for basic necessities in the health and educational sector as a way of growing capacity and affordability.