{"id":904176,"date":"2026-05-07T08:13:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/vanguard-award-akintayo-ojulari-others-celebrated-as-icons-of-the-year-photos\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T08:13:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:13:33","slug":"vanguard-award-akintayo-ojulari-others-celebrated-as-icons-of-the-year-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/vanguard-award-akintayo-ojulari-others-celebrated-as-icons-of-the-year-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanguard Award: Akintayo, Ojulari, others celebrated as Icons of the Year [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s leading figures across governance, business, energy, and industry were on Friday night celebrated at the Vanguard Awards, where distinguished personalities were honoured as Icons of the Year for their outstanding contributions to national development. The ceremony brought together policymakers, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders in a night that spotlighted excellence&#8230; Blythe Roberie <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/04\/vanguard-award-akintayo-ojulari-others-celebrated-as-icons-of-the-year-photos\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s leading figures across governance, business, energy, and industry were on Friday night celebrated at the Vanguard Awards, where distinguished personalities were honoured as Icons of the Year for their outstanding contributions to national development. The ceremony brought together policymakers, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders in a night that spotlighted excellence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":904177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2235,22643],"tags":[15755,77714],"class_list":{"0":"post-904176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-award","8":"category-vanguard","9":"tag-award","10":"tag-vanguard"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}