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Teacher's Day is called "Guru Purnima" in Nepali, where "Guru" means teacher and "Purnima" means "Full Moon". Netherlands: 5 October [31] New Zealand: 29 October Nigeria: 5 October Teachers' day in Nigeria is usually a work-free day for all rural and urban teachers. North Macedonia: 5 October Oman: 24 February Palestine: 14 December Panama: 1 ...
Niyi Osundare is a Nigerian poet, dramatist, linguist, and literary critic. Born on 12 March 1947, in Ikere-Ekiti, [1] Nigeria, his poetry is influenced by the oral poetry of his Yoruba culture, which he hybridizes with other poetic traditions of the world, including African-American, Latin American, Asian, and European.
Mabel Segun, NNOM (born 1930) is a Nigerian poet, playwright and writer of short stories and children's books. She has also been a teacher, broadcaster, and a sportswoman. She has also been a teacher, broadcaster, and a sportswoman.
Tade Ipadeola (born September 1970 in Fiditi, Oyo State) is a Nigerian poet who writes in English and Yoruba.He is a practising lawyer. In 2013 his poetry collection The Sahara Testaments won the prestigious Nigeria Prize for Literature instituted by the Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG). [1]
Nduka's poem "Etude" won the Bronze Prize at the 4th Korea-Nigeria Poetry Feast. [26] In 2016, he emerged winner of the 6th Korea-Nigeria Poetry Feast Prize for his poem "Listen". [27] [28] One of his spoken-word poems titled "We Wear Purple Robes" is a reflection on terrorism in Nigeria. [29]
He started writing Arabic poems in the 1930s. Malam Akilu's aptitude in poetry began to show while he was only a teenager. In an interview with Radio Nigeria, Kaduna in 1966, the poet said that he started composing in Arabic even before venturing into Hausa poetry. As at then, he said in the interview, he had over seven hundred poems to his ...
The theme of World Teachers' Day 2023 is "The teachers we need for the education we want". Teachers are the heart of education and in many countries are leaving the profession they love, and fewer young people aspire to become one. UNESCO estimates that the world needs over 69 million new teachers by 2030, and the shortage only continues to ...
Odia Ofeimun (born 16 March 1950) [1] is a Nigerian poet and polemicist, the author of many volumes of poetry, books of political essays and on cultural politics, and the editor of two significant anthologies of Nigerian poetry. His work has been widely anthologized and translated and he has read and performed his poetry internationally.