Rivers
Nigerian Wins Commonwealth Literary Competition
Nigeria’s Kachi Ozumba has been named winner of the Africa regional prize of the 2009 Commonwealth short story competition. His story, “The One-armed Thief”, was adjudged as the best from the region in the yearly competition.
Three other Nigerians were named in the “highly Commended” category. They are Ayobami Adebayo for his story “Dreams”, Akinwumi Akinwale for “LIFO” and Mbofung Carlang for “The Father’s Blessings”.
The overall prize was won by Jennifer Moore from the United Kingdom. The Commonwealth Broadcasting Association, the organiser of the competition, describes her winning story “Table Talk” as “ a witty and poignant conversation about life and death”. Moore’s winning story was the best from the Canada and Europe region before winning the overall prize.
The winners were chosen from about 4000 entries sent in from all Commonwealth countries.
Since its establishment in 1996, the Commonwealth Short Story competition is open to writers from Commonwealth member-countries and continues to promote new voices in creative writing.
Rivers
NSE Members Tasked On National Dev
Rivers
VALVA Restates Commitment Education Advancement, Literacy In Nigeria
Rivers
Rivers Judiciary Denies Issuing Court Order Stopping SOLAD from Swearing in RSCSC Members
The Rivers State Judiciary has denied a media report claiming that Justice Frank Onyiri of the State High Court issued an injunction order restraining the Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (rtd), from inaugurating the newly appointed members of the Rivers State Civil Service Commission (RSCSC).
In a statement issued by the Deputy Chief Registrar in charge of litigation at the High Court, Menenen Poromon (Esq), the state Judiciary disassociated itself from the report, describing it as malicious and fabricated.
The statement emphasized that the report was a falsehood and a misrepresentation of what transpeared in the court.
Poromon clarified that no such order was issued by Justice Onyiri or any other judge of the High Court of the state and urged the public to disregard the information, as it lacked any iota of truth.
The statement however advised the public to verify any information concerning the state Judiciary directly from the office of the Chief Registrar, High Court of the State, to avoid spreading of misinformation.