The Advisory Board of the Nigeria Prize for Literature and Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has announced Ikeogu Oke as the winner of the 2017 edition. The NLNG award goes with a cash prize of $100, 000. The announcement was made by the Chairman of the Advisory Board for the prize, Emeritus Prof. Ayo Banjo, at a news conference in Lagos. Ikeogu Oke’s collection of poems, The Heresiad, emerged winner from among 184 entries received for the competition.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its five-week old strike following a meeting with the Federal Government’s delegation.
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), has released the May/June WASSCE results for this year.
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, has disclosed that the Nigerian Army University in Biu, Borno State, will take off next September. Buratai made the disclosure shortly after receiving the Certificate of Occupancy and the surveyed site master plan for the university site from Gov. Kashim Shettima in Maiduguri on Monday.
A delegation of the Government of Sierra Leonean led by Presidential Adviser on Youth, Dr. Sheku G. Kamara, plans to visit some National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Orientation camps in the country for an on-the-spot monitoring of activities during the on-going 2017 Batch ‘A’ Orientation course.
