AWARD: Vanguard Honours Tanker Driver, Others
By Simeon OSAJIE
Vanguard Newspapers on Friday night, honoured Mr. Ejiro Otarigho with a Hero’s Award for driving a blazing petroleum tanker out of a point where lives and property would have been consumed by a huge fire.
Otarigho, Agbarho-born driver in Delta, sometime in 2022, at a high risk to his life, steered a burning tanker laden with petrol away from a densely populated part of his community, to a river to avert disaster.
Also honoured with the same Award at the event which held at Eko Hotels and Suites, Lagos, is Mrs. Eunice Onuekwuzi, who rejected N5,000 inducement to vote a particular political party in an election conducted by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Anambra.
Both awardees were joined by Governor of Delta State, Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa; his Akwa-Ibom counterpart, Udom Emmanuel; Oyo governor, Seyi Makinde; Borno governor, Babagana Zulum; and Kwara governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, for the award by the Management of the Newspaper.
The governors were honoured for their contributions to governance and development of their various states, while business mogul and Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, who got Vanguard’s Personality-of-the-Year award, led some key public and private sector players, who were honoured for Lifetime Achievements.
Chairperson of the day and Chairman, Access Bank Plc, Mrs Ajoritsedere Awosika, commended the Vanguard for honouring eminent Nigerians who had contributed to the growth and development of the country.
