2018 Scorecard of Pragmatic Deliverables: The Denja Abdullahi’s ANA Presidency at a Glance

2018 Scorecard of Pragmatic Deliverables: The Denja Abdullahi’s ANA Presidency at a Glance

In 2017, at the 36^th International Annual Convention of ANA held in Makurdi, the 2017-2019 National Executive Council was elected with Mallam Denja Abdullahi as the President. The following are the delivery of the National Executive Councils under the leadership of Denja Abdullahi in 2018:

• Ø ANA nominated two persons(Khalid Imam of ANA Kano & Claris Ujams of ANA Abuja) to participate in the  Global Book Alliance Regional Meeting organized by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa(ADEA) which held in Abidjan, Cote d ‘Ivoire from 22-24 January,2018.
• Ø Rising from its 3rd Inaugural meeting of 20^th January,2018 at Abuja, ANA  established two committees: Constitutional Review Committee and Intellectual Property Protection and Advancement Committee.
• Ø ANA donated 100 volumes of books to Terkule Aorabee for a reading and writing workshops in two LGAs in Taraba State.
• Ø ANA ‘s documentary film “Dancing Mask” was screened in West African Films Festival held in February,2018 in Houston, Texas in the U.S.A.
• Ø ANA President attended and presented a paper at the African Union 1^st Pan African Writers’ Conference which held in Accra,Ghana from the 7-9 March,2018.
• Ø On the 1^st  of March 2018,ANA effectively moved its National Secretariat in line with constitutional provision and national executive council approval  to the completed red-brick building of the Association at the Mamman Vatsa Writers’ Village in Mpape, Abuja. The former  National secretariat office at the National Theatre Complex in Iganmu, Lagos was handed over to ANA Lagos to manage and would continue to serve as the Lagos liaison office for the Association.
• Ø Elections were held in the following ANA Chapters: Edo, Ebonyi, Benue, Niger, Abuja, Rivers, Plateau, Katsina  and Taraba
• Ø ANA facilitated the participation of 10 indigenous language writers from Nigeria in the Association for the Development of Education in Africa’s “Énabling Writers: Bloom Software Training of Trainers Workshop” which held in Abuja from 17-20 April,2018.
• Ø ANA attended the Prof Joe Ushie@60 Conference in Calabar , Cross-River State, Prof Sam Ukala @ 70 retirement celebration and launching of a festschrift in his honour in Abraka and the 25^th Anniversary ICALEL Conference at the University of Calabar, all in April,2018.
• Ø ANA held its Capacity Building Workshop for National officers and selected 15 States Executive Council Members on “Innovations in Contemporary Literary Awareness Campaigns in Nigeria” which held in Ilorin, Kwara State on the 20^th April,2018.
• Ø The 7^th Meeting of the National Executive Council Members with State Chapters’ Chairmen and Secretaries held in Ilorin Kwara, State on the 21^St  April,2018.
• Ø ANA undertook a media supplement on the ANA/Yusuf Ali literary Awareness Campaign (2012-2018) in various newspapers and on-line blogs between March-April,2018.
• Ø ANA held the “Authors’ Groove” at the Nigerian International Book Fair at University of Lagos under the theme “Literary Agency and the Promotion of the Authors’ Craft and Business,” on the 11^th of May,2018.
• Ø ANA held its maiden International Conference/ Creative Workshop in partnership with Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu –Alike Ikwo with the theme “Expanding Frontiers: Nigeria’s Creative Writing in the 21^st Century,” from the 18-19 June,2018.
• Ø ANA donated 200 volumes of books to the Library of  Alex Ekwueme Federal University ,Ndufu-Alike Ikwo in June,2018.
• Ø ANA participated in the State Funeral given to the Late Secretary-General of the Pan African Writers’ Association(PAWA),Prof Atukwei Okai which held in Accra ,Ghana on the 14 of September,2018.
• Ø ANA PCVE held a Stakeholders’ Summit on Assessing Nigeria Soft Approach to Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in partrnership with White Ink Consult and Gusau Institute on the 18^th of October,2018 in Abuja.
• Ø ANA successfully held a well-attended and very memorable 37^th International Convention in Ikeja, Lagos hosted by the Lagos State Chapter of the Association from the 25-28 October, 2018 and attended by the Wife of the Governor of Ekiti State, Erelu Bisi Fayemi.