Children’S book author and journalist, Mr Anote Ajeluorou (Igho Goes to Farm), On-Air-Personality (@Mega FM, Warri) and author of Distortions, Lady Ejiro Umukoro, and another On-Air-Personality and Warri-based Isoko language coach, Mr Oghenero Ezaza (@Kpoko FM, Warri) will lead a…
World Book Day 2021: Prisenda hosts Ipadeola, Diana-Abasi, Horsfall, Ajeluorou
Prisenda Writers Residency Initiative (PWRI) has said it will host five Nigerian writers in a conversation tagged “My Kind of Books” to marksUNESCO World Book and Copyright Day 2021 on Friday, April 23. The event, a statement said, will be…
School abduction capable of worsening Nigeria’s out-of-school crisis, says children’s book author
A children’s book author, Mr Anote Ajeluorou, has lamented the increasing rate of school children abduction in northern states like Niger, Zamfara, Katsina and Kaduna, stating that the ugly trend needed to be halted at once, so as not to…
Ajeluorou, author of “Igho Goes to Farm”, laments failure of National Library to promote creative writing
Author of Igho Goes to Farm and journalist, Mr Anote Ajeluorou, has blasted the National Library of Nigeria (NLN) for not promoting creative writing and writers in the country, even as he lamented its dilapidated facility in Yaba, Lagos, and…
Name National Theatre after Wole Soyinka, author tells govt
Author of popular children’s book ‘Igho Goes to Farm’ and Head of Politics at The Guardian, Mr Anote Ajeluorou, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari and his Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed to name the National Theatre in…
‘Include children’s writing, contemporary fiction in universities’ literature curriculum’ – Michael Ipogah
Children’s writing and Nigerian contemporary fiction received a boost recently when the authors of Igho Goes to Farm and Prodigals in Paradise, Messrs Anote Ajeluorou and Henry Akubuiro, were hosted to a Creative Writing Masterclass at the Department of English…
Ajeluorou, Akubuiro headline writing masterclass at UNIBEN
Two Lagos-based journalists and fiction writers – Anote Ajeluorou of The Guardian and Henry Akubuiro of The Sun – will be lead discussants in a creative writing masterclass to be held at the Department of English and Literature, University of…
Ajeluorou, author of ‘Igho Goes to Farm’ makes case for Ase Creek as tourism destination
…Urges Okowa to develop tourist sites in Delta State …Says river comparable to Thames, Rhine, Danube in Europe Author of increasingly popular children’s storybook Igho Goes to Farm and editor with The Guardian, Mr. Anote Ajeluorou, has canvassed the need…
11 authors make the initial shortlist for the Nigeria Prize for Literature 2019
The longlist for the 2019 Nigeria Prize for Literature has been announced by the Nigeria LNG Limited, which sponsors the $100,000 award. The announcement was made on social media via Facebook live Thursday and in a statement by the company’s…
NLNG announces longlist of 11 for 2019 Literature Prize
The longlist for the 2019 Nigeria Prize for Literature has been announced by the Nigeria LNG Limited, which sponsors the $100,000 award. The announcement was made on social media via Facebook live Thursday. Anne-Marie Palmer-Ikuku, who is Nigeria LNG Limited’s…