Saturday, March 26, 2022

ANA MOURNS JEROME MARTYNS AJAYI

ANA MOURNS JEROME MARTYNS AJAYI

By ANA Publicity Committee

The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) under the leadership of Dr. Camillus Chima Ukah has mourned the passage of Jerome Martyns Ajayi, a vibrant member of ANA Kaduna Chapter who died through a motor accident in Kaduna, Kaduna State.

In a statement, ANA PRO (North) Umar Yogiza Jr. sent to newsmen on Friday, described the youthful Ajayi's whose life was cut-short is a devastating loss not only to ANA or Kaduna State, but to the pen fraternity worldwide.

According to the Statement, “Jerome Martyns Ajayi left at a time ANA and the country needs his contribution, but 'Those we love never truly leave us.' And there are some things that death can never alter. The grief literary community is going through is the price for having a wonderful person, like you, Jerome, in our lives".

ANA Commiserate with the Jerome family as well as friends and ANA Members in Kaduna state as we supplicate to God to give us all the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss”.

Dr. Camillus Chima Ukah finally prayed to Almighty God to grant Jerome Martyns Ajayi eternal rest and implores that– God gives and God takes, mindless of our schedules.

Jerome Martyns Ajayi until his Death, worked with the NIPOST, and was at the time of his death a law student at the law school in Abuja.

Friday, March 4, 2022

ANA PRESIDENT CAMILLUS UKAH DISBURSES ANA 1000 BOOKS, ANA'S A BOOK, A CHILD INITIATIVE

ANA President Dr. Camillus Ukah, at Queen Elizabeth School Ilorin, Today, Friday, March 4th, 2022, disbursing ANA's 1000 books, a book a child nationwide initiative.



ANA CONGRATULATES OBARI GOMBA, WINNER OF THE PAN-AFRICAN WRITERS ASSOCIATION'S POETRY PRIZE 2022

ANA CONGRATULATES OBARI GOMBA, WINNER OF THE PAN-AFRICAN  WRITERS ASSOCIATION'S POETRY PRIZE 2022

The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) heartily congratulates Dr.
Obari Gomba on winning the Pan-African Writers Association’s Proetry Prize 2022 with his highly engaging and absolutely absorbing volume of poems 'The Lilt of the Rebel. A statement issued by ANA General Secretary Maik Ortserga said on Thursday said"Gomba's success does not come as a surprise, given his literary antecedents. 
The statement further described the visiting professor at Oxford University  as one of the most committed writers and literary scholars in contemporary Nigeria who has continued to make ANA proud. The statement revealed that Gomba has always put his touch-stone ideas to the service of ANA and we can not shy away from celebrating his success and we believe that the best is yet to be heard about Obari Gomba"


ANA CONGRATULATES AFRICA'S OLDEST WRITER, HIS HIGHNESS CHRISTIAN OTOBOTEKERE ON HIS 97TH BIRTHDAY

ANA CONGRATULATES AFRICA'S OLDEST WRITER, HIS HIGHNESS CHRISTIAN OTOBOTEKERE ON HIS 97TH BIRTHDAY. Dr. Camillus Chima Ukah, President of...