Congratulates African Poetry Prize Winner, Othuke
Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, yesterday, charged his appointees to contribute their quota towards surmounting the socio-economic and development challenges of the state.
Okowa gave the charge, while inaugurating newly appointed special advisers (SAs) at the Government House, Asaba.
The special advisers are Ignatius Ziakegha, Matthew Tsekiri, Chukwudi Dafe, Edward Ekpoko, Martins Okonta, Daniel Yingi, Ernest Ogwuezzy and Johnson Erijo. x
The governor said the appointments made so far were not meant to fulfill the statutory requirement of Section 196 of the constitution, but to bring structure, men and women of character and experience on how to tackle unemployment, poverty, anti-social vices, suspicion and distrust into governance.
Sacred Hunger will be adapted into a series.
According to
Plan B and
Marshall executive producer Chris Bongirne and his production company Smokestack Films has joined hands with financier Stephen Leist to buy the rights to the 1992 book.
The story follows the journey of a struggling young English doctor aboard 18th century slave ship the Liverpool Merchant.
In 1992,
The English Patient.
“We’re honoured to have the opportunity to adapt Unsworth’s poignant work for the screen. The deeply powerful story dives deep into England’s early slave trade to reveal a tale of shared humanity as stunningly relevant today as it was bitingly critical at the time. Television is the perfect medium for the brutal relevance, scope and sweep of this timely story,” Bongirne said.
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This cover image released by Grove shows Shuggie Bain, a novel by Douglas Stuart. The Scottish writer has won the Booker Prize for fiction for his novel about a boy’s turbulent coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow. Stuart won the prestigious 50,000 pound ($66,000) award for his first published novel. (Grove via AP)
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Daily Star Books’ Favourite Reads of 2020
The DS Books staff are excited to recommend the books, published in 2020, that taught us what it means to find joy, to be terrified and uplifted, and to willingly get lost in the written world. A longer version of this list with more books suggested by more staff writers will be available online. Read and follow us on @thedailystarbooks on Instagram, @DailyStarBooks on Twitter, and fb.com/DailyStarBooks on Facebook. Have a happy new year!
The DS Books staff are excited to recommend the books some published in 2020 and other slightly older that taught us what it means to find joy, to be terrified and uplifted, and to willingly get lost in the written world this year.