Wednesday, October 04, 2006

The Nigeria Prize for Literature Award Ceremony

My IV for the 2006 Nigeria Prize for Literature and Nigeria Prize for Science Grand Award Night arrived today.

Venue: MUSON CENTRE, LAGOS
Time: 6:00 PM PRECISELY
Date: 7TH OCTOBER 2006

Guest Speaker:
CHIEF FOLAKE SOLANKE, SAN, PAST PRESIDENT, ZONTA INTERNATIONAL

Topic:
GLOBALISATION: BLESSING OR CURSE?

Guest of Honour:
CHIEF JAMES AKWARI IROHA, GRINGORY OF NEW MASQUERADE FAME AND BEST GRADUATING STUDENT, PIONEER CLASS (A966), DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN

Music:
EME EMA, NIGERIA'S GOLDEN GIRL AND WINNER (NIGERIA), BRITISH COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL YOUNG MUSIC ENTREPRENEUR 2006

Dance Drama:
CROWN TROUPE OF AFRICA, NIGERIA'S FOREMOST DANCE TROUPE

ATTENDANCE IS STRICTLY BY INVITATION :)))

The 2006 Science Prize Laureate has already been announced. He is Prof. Michael Umale Adikwu. The Literature Prize Luareate will be announced at the dinner. This year's prize is for drama (the prize rotates yearly between fiction, poetry, drama and children's literature).

The 2006 Literature Shortlist
-Mr. Emeka Egwuda (former Chairman of the Association of Nigerian Authors - Lagos State Chapter)
-Professor Femi Osofisan (Former General Manager, National Theatre, Lagos, and Nigeria's most performed - and perhaps most accomplished playwright after Wole Soyinka.
-Dr. Ahmed Yerima (General Manager, National Theatre, Lagos)

This is the 3rd year of the existence of the Nigeria Prize (for Literature and Science) and is the first Award Ceremony I will be attending.

2 comments:

Araceli said...

Hey, you got an IV! That's cool. Be sure to blog about the night. If it admits two, maybe I should tag along...

Toluwalope said...

Hi Araceli,
Such an event is a HIGH PRIORITY BLOGGABLE EVENT (HPBE)! An event like that, fully-blogged, every-nuance-teased-out, allows you to take a guiltless blog-break for a bit :)))))
Pity the IV didn't admit 2, but that's not to say I didn't eat for two :))))))