ELECHI AMADI HONOURED

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THE RIVERS STATE GOVERNMENT SAYS IT WOULD CONSTRUCT A NEW FACULTY OF HUMANITIES BUILDING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT, TO BE NAMED AFTER LITERARY ICON, CAPTAIN ELECHI AMADI.

GOVERNOR CHIBUIKE AMAECHI ANNOUNCED THIS TODAY AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF A CELEBRATION IN HONOUR OF CAPTAIN ELECHI AMADI, ORGANISED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIAN AUTHORS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PORT HAROCURT.

THE GOVERNOR WHO REQUESTED THE AUTHORITIES OF THE INSTITUTION TO SHOW HIM THE LAND, ON WHICH THE STRUCTURES WOULD BE BUILT, EXPLAINED THAT THE STATE GOVERNMENT INTENDS TO HONOUR CAPTAIN ELECHI AMADI FOR HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO LITERATURE IN THE COUNTRY.

GOVERNOR AMAECHI SAID HE ADMIRES CAPTAIN ELECHI AMADI SO MUCH BECAUSE OF HIS TRANSPARENT AND HONEST DISPOSITION.

RT.HON. AMACHI EXPLAINED THAT HE DECIDED TO APPOINT CAPTAIN AMADI AS CHAIRMAN OF THE STATE SCHOLARSHIP BOARD IN ORDER TO BRING SANITY AND TRANSPARENCY INTO THE BOARD.

HE ENJOINED THE STUDENTS TO HAVE CRITICAL MINDS, TO ENSURE A BETTER SOCIETY AND URGED THEM TO EMULATE LITERARY GIANTS, SUCH AS KOFI AWOONOR AND PROFESSOR WOLE SOYINKA.

THE VICE CHANCELLOR OF UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCHOURT, PROFESSOR DON BARIDAM DESCRIBED CAPTAIN ELECHI AMADI AS A TEACHER, SOLDIER, COMMUNITY LEADER AND GREAT CHRONICLER OF HIS PEOPLE’S CULTURAL HERITAGE WHO STANDS OUT AS AN ICON OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.

HE URGED THE ASSOCIATION TO REFLECT ON HOW TO IMPROVE THE READING CULTURE THAT IS DWINDLING IN THE SOCIETY.

ON HIS PART, THE STATE CHAIRMAN OF THE ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIAN AUTHORS DR. MIESONUMA MINIMA SAID THE TIME HAS COME FOR WRITERS TO SENSITIZE THE SOCIETY THROUGH THEIR CREATIVE WRITINGS AND CONGRATULATED CAPTAIN ELECHI AMADI FOR MAKING RIVERS STATE PROUD BY HIS WORKS.

RESPONDING, CAPTAIN ELECHI AMADI THANKED THE ORGANISERS OF THE PROGRAMME FOR THE HONOUR DONE HIM, AND HIS COLLEAGUES FOR ATTENDING THE OCCASION.

GOVENMENT HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, GRACE NYONE REPORTS THAT THE OCCASION FEATURED CITATION ON CAPTAIN ELECHI AMADI AND GOODWILL MESSAGES FROM PROFESSOR WOLE SOYINKA AND AMBASSADOR KOFI AWOONOR.

LITERARY GIANTS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE ATTENDED THE OCCASION.

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