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Ikeogu Oke, winner of the 2017 NLNG-sponsored Nigerian Prize for
literature, is dead.
Oke, it was learnt, died in Abuja on Saturday night after an
undisclosed ailment.
The poet gained nationwide fame last year when he won the 2017
Nigeria Prize for Literature for his book, The Heresiad, a book of
epic poetry.
The deceased was presented with a cheque of $100,000 (N37m) by
the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Company Limited.
Oke’s collection of poems, entitled, The Heresiad, beat Ogaga
Ifowodo’s A Good Mourning and Tanure Ojaide’s Songs of Myself:
Quartet, to claim the prize after an intensive adjudication
process.
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