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