News | Convention in memory of Abubakar Gimba opens tomorrow in Abuja.
Participants
and guests from all over Nigeria will tomorrow, Tuesday 27th February,
2018, converge on the auditorium of the National Universities Commission (NUC),
Maitama, Abuja for the inaugural Capital Territory Book Convention being
organised by Delta Book club, a subsidiary of Delta Publications (Nigeria)
Limited.
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Chief Dillibe Onyeama, President, The Delta Book Club |
Prof.
Vicky Sylvester of the University of Abuja will present the Abubakar Gimba
Lecture initiated to celebrate the writings and ideals of the late Nigerian novelist Mal.
Abubakar Gimba while Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, the Executive Secretary of the NUC
will chair the convention.
Akintunde
Oyajobi, author of the novel Nostalgia
will receive his prize at the convention as the first winner of the Abubakar
Gimba Literary Award established and administered by the Delta Book Club to
reward the best of contemporary Nigerian fiction.
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