Ikeogu Oke, winner of 2017 NLNG Prize, is dead

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“Ikeogu was a guest performer at the World Poetry Day 2018 celebration in Abuja. Ikoegu was one of the few Nigerian writers who lives on in his literary works.”

Henry Akubuiro

Ikeogu Oke, the author of the poetry volume, Heresiad, and winner of the 2017 Nigeria Prize for Literature, sponsored by NLNG, has died. He died yesterday, aged 51, at the National Hospital, Abuja, after a protracted illness.

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Confirming his death, Denja Abdullahi, the National President of the Association of Nigerian Author (ANA), told Daily Sun that the late poet had been ill for four months now. Oke hailed from Ohafia, Abia State and was married with children.

Abdullahi, while commiserating with the family and the Nigerian literary community, said, “He was a gentleman and a writer whose commitment to literature was second to none. We were together at the second edition of the Return to Mother Idoto in honour of…



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