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Activities swirling around this year’s edition of The Nigeria Literature Prize (sponsored by NLNG) have started revving up with its advisory board’s recent announcement of a shortlist of 11. This shortlist – which not a few literary enthusiasts would rather call a longlist – was drawn from 202 entries in contention for this year’s – 2021 – edition of the prize. Another shortlist of three, from which a possible winner could emerged, is expected to be announced in September, a statement signed by the NLNG’s General Manager, External Relations and Sustainable Development Eyono Fatayi-Williams reminded the literary community.
The prize, which rotates annually among four broad literary categories – namely, prose fiction, poetry, drama and children’s literature – is worth $100,000, which will be awarded by the advisory board in October. It runs concurrently with the Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism (also sponsored by NLNG), which is valued at N1 million. T
Eleven authors in contention for $100,000 The Nigeria Prize for Literature
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At a public hearing on the review of the constitution in Abuja, yesterday, the Senate declared that although a completely new constitution to replace the current one was desirable, the extant law does not support it.
An array of persons and groups, had sought a totally new constitution for Nigeria.