Tag: books
Just In: 2025 Nigeria Prize for Literature longlist unveiled
The prize is sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited and carries a cash award of $100,000
NGO donates food items, books, toiletries, others to Boys’ Correctional Centre
In a bid to help meet some of the physical and spiritual needs of wards at the Special Correctional Centre…
LASIEC Chairman unveils three books written by commission’s staff
The Chairman of the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, Justice Ayotunde Phillips, has presented one of the three books written…
Kogi SUBEB warns Teachers against selling of Books
The Chair of the Kogi State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has warned public school Head Teachers against selling books…
FG committed to press freedom—Adeshina
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adeshina, has assured media practitioners of the Federal Government’s…
Pirates Feast On Obasanjo’s Book
Pirated copies of ‘My Watch,’ a controversial autobiography written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo have flooded the streets of Lagos,…
French Author, Modiano, Wins 2014 Nobel Prize In Literature
Patrick Madiano has just been announced the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in 1945, he has…
Reflections On Essays In Honour Of Wole Soyinka At 80
By Toyin Falola We cannot heap enough words of praise on Ivor Agyeman-Duah and Ogochukwu Promise for initiating Crucible of…
Wole Soyinka Prize: Akin Bello Wins Grand Prize
A former Chairman of the Oyo State chapter of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Akin Bello has been named…
The Making Of My New Book
A book, Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics In Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo And Corporate Agency, will be presented to the public…
My Life, My Writings
Dr. Sarah Ladipo Manyika is a child of many worlds. She is by birth Nigerian, has lived in East Africa,…
Zimbabwean Wins Etisalat Literature Prize
Nkrumah Bankong-Obi Noviolet Bulawayo, a writer from Zimbabwe, has won the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature in Africa. Her novel,…
Harry Porter author to publish new crime novel
Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling will publish her second crime novel in June, it was revealed Monday, under the…
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Debo Basorun: Why I Fled Nigeria
Major Debo Basorun (rtd.) wants the public to know what transpired during the regime of former military president, General Ibrahim…
Sickle Cell: The Dazzling Mirage
A university don exposes challenges faced by Sickle Cell disease sufferers When Olayinka Abimbola Egbokhare, a lecturer at the Faculty…