Special Appearance: Rt Hon Barr Eseme Eyiboh. “Leadership is not dealership. Dealers seek laurels. Leaders seek knowledge. Knowledge is consistent character of readers. Those in this class, never fail. Reading may not give instant profit, but readers are never stranded…we …
Day 1: 17th September 2021. The main session of the conference held at Nelson Mandela hall, Watbridge Hotel, Uyo. Day 2. 18th September 2021. The Trip to Raffia City Book Club, Ikot Ekpene for reading and lunch. The Raffia City …
…AKS Gov. awarded Grand Patron of Akwa Ibom Book Clubs…Ray Ekpu earns Lifetime Achievement award as UBC Patron…Confab Delegates visit Raffia City Book Club The National Book Clubs Conference, Uyo 2021, has ended with a charge on public libraries and …
At a well attended national conference hosted on behalf of the Network of Book Clubs and Reading Promoters in Nigeria, NBRP by the Uyo Book Club, stakeholders drawn from the National Library of Nigeria; the Network of Book Clubs and …
By Umoh Joshua As the maiden National Conference of Book Clubs in Nigeria inches closer, an Akwa Ibom-born iconic journalist and one time World Editor of the Year, Ray Ekpu has appealed to Governments at all levels, corporate organizations, individuals …
A Justice of the Court of Appeal, His Lordship, Hon.(Justice) Ita Mbaba has endorsed the forthcoming National Book Clubs and Reading Promoters taking place in about a fortnight in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Mbaba, himself a respected books person and …
By Ray Ekpu When book lovers troop into Uyo, Akwa Ibom State next month to hold the first Book Clubs conference in Nigeria, the town would have registered its name in history as a book-loving city. This journey started on …
…as Des Wilson, Ors celebrate Achebe’s rich cultural offerings and Ekong Sampson calls for indigenization of names By Samuel Udoma The need to tap into the rich reservoir of our African cultural heritage for the enrichment of literary exertions has …
The Local Organizing Committee of the fast approaching, National Book Clubs and Reading Promoters Conference, ‘Uyo 2021’ headed by Rt Hon.(Barr) Ekong Sampson earlier today unveiled the Official Logo for the book festival holding in September. In a ceremony held …
It was a rendition of eulogies as authors, poets and others converged Saturday in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, to celebrate Wole Soyinka at 87. Prof Soyinka is a professor of Comparative Literature and the 1986 Nobel Prize winner in Literature. …