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Poet-Today | Hafsat Abdullahi |

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Our Arts-Muse Fair Poet-Today's love for her fatherland is unmistakable. We see this in her laments of the state of her nation.     Senseless Heroes In just a day Hearts felt bitter, sunken and led astray Fathers have clumped their way out the city gates Singing songs and dragging sons along It is May! The rains have found a home among us and he is ready to stay Who then would plant our grains? Poor scanty fatherland running down its hay Brothers becoming brother’s own adversary Blindly following the path of a lost course They bought doomsday and Death is the price to pay. Returned We are back Thudding our way on the sore back of the aching earth It is our knack Generously inflicting oneself with flamboyant pains is our quest It is dark Hearts in dread yet glad. The earth is black And cold Tired of our aimless digging as if in search of gold. We lack Our sanity had betrayed us. Lunacy is our happy leader.

Write 'Scientific' Poems - Prof. Andrew Nok Challenges Writers.

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By Yunus MC                                   Prof. Andrew Nok, the Commissioner of Education for Kaduna State has challenged Nigerian teen writers to write poems on his scientific feat . Prof. Nok is the winner of the 2009 NLNG Prize for science in Nigeria,  awarded to him for developing a vaccine for the cure of sleeping sickness. Prof. Andrew Nok at the YEF Workshop The Professor of Biochemistry gave the challenge at the opening of a creative writing workshop for teen writers in Kaduna State on 6 th June, 2017 organized by the Yasmin El-Rufai Foundation, a Not-for-profit organization focusing on literary creativity and women literacy programmes. The Foundation which is a brainchild of the wife of the governor of Kaduna State, Hajiya Hadiza Isma El-Rufai was established in memory of her late daughter, Yasmin. Prof. Nok who pledged his support for the Foundation expressed his happiness for being amidst student-writers as well as seeing his former student

Hill-Top Creative Arts Centre Opens In Sokoto

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The Hill-Top Creative Arts Foundation founded by BM Dzukogi in Minna, the capital of Niger state got a boost with the extension of its activities to Sokoto state. The Foundation which trains teenagers in the art of writing and public speaking had in April this year organized a national event tagged   Nigerian Festival Of Teen Authors (NIFESTEENA). After the event which had teen writers from Sokoto,                                                                             Advertisement Kebbi, Bayelsa and other states attending, the Sokoto state participants   left with a vow to replicate the Foundation’s programmes in Sokoto by starting an Arts Centre modeled after the Minna Arts Centre managed by the Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation. Dr. Aisha Umar, leader of the Sokoto state participants at NIFESTEENA and motivator of the new Sokoto Arts Centre expressed joy at the inauguration of the Sokoto Hill-Top Creative Arts Centre last Saturday, which was marked with a me