2019 Scorecard of Pragmatic Deliverables: The Denja Abdullahi’s ANA Presidency at a glance

2019 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 2019:

• Ø Rising from its 4th Inaugural meeting of 26^th January,2019 at Abuja, ANA  appointed Sole Administrators to revive its ailing chapters in Anambra, Gombe, Kaduna, Sokoto, Nasarawa, Ondo, Bauchi and Cross River States.
• Ø From late January –early February  2019, ANA President, on the invitation from Gambian Writers Association(GWA)was at Banjul, The Gambia or a bilateral relationship tour to conduct literary meetings and workshops for Gambian writers.
• Ø In February, 2019, ANA published a collection of poems For Ikeogu,For Poetry: Tributes in the Memory of Ikeogu Oke, the winner of the 2017 NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature for poetry who died on the 24^th November,2018.
• Ø On 30^th March 2019, ANA was at the burial of the late poet Ikeogu Oke , winner of the NLNG Prize for Literature in 2017 at his hometown Akanu Ohafia in Abia State.
• Ø On 30^th March 2019,ANA was represented at the burial of the father of a one –time chairman of ANA Akwa Ibom ,Prof Joe Ushie at Bendi at Obanliku Local Government Area of Cross Rivers State.
• Ø In March 2019, ANA received an endowment of its poetry prize with $1,000 from Senator Shehu Sani.
• Ø On 13^th April 2019, the 8^th  Meeting of the National Executive Council Members with State Chapters’ Chairmen and Secretaries held in Ilorin Kwara, State with 12 chapters given sub-grant to carry out innovative literary outreach programmes under the ANA/Yusuf Ali Literary Awareness Project 2019.
• Ø On 8^th of May 2019, ANA held the Authors’ Groove and Special Writers’ Day under the theme “Pushing the Writer’s Craft and Business in the Age of ICT” at the 18^th Nigerian International Book Fair which held in the  University of Lagos
• Ø On 30^th May 2019, ANA donated 50 volumes of books to the Jigawa Library Project to aid the organisation’s book donation project to schools in Jigawa State.
• Ø In June 2019 ANA participated in the Burial of Dr Gabriel Okara in Yenagoa and Boumondi in Bayelsa State.
• Ø From 2-3 July,2019 ANA held its 2^nd Expanding Frontiers of Nigerian Literature International Conference/ Creative Workshop in partnership with Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu –Alike Ikwo in Ebonyi State with the theme “Nigeria’s Literary Criticism in an Expanding Space of Creative Writing and Digital Production in the 21^st Century. ”
• Ø In August and in September 2019 ,ANA President was at the State Convention of ANA Ekiti State Chapter and at the grand finale of ANA Kogi State Chapter ANA/ Yusuf Ali Literary Awareness Campaign respectively in the spirit of supporting and identification of ANA Chapters across the country.
• Ø At various times in the 3^rd quarter of 2019, ANA donated volumes of books to Federal Government Girls College Bakori Old Girls Association, Kate Tales Foundation and Ebedi International Writers Residency, Iseyin.
• Ø ANA National Executive Council in 2019 monitored and supervised elections held in its chapters in Nasarawa, Kogi, Kebbi,Ekiti and Bayelsa in its resolve to ensure that democracy and good internal governance practices at chapters level .
• Ø Fast-tracking development and construction activities on the ANA Land in Mpape, Abuja between 2017-2019 where presently the basic structures originally earmarked to be built on the land are in various stages of completion. This is a land that has remained without construction since 1985 when it was allocated to the Association by the then Minister for the Federal Capital Territory, Late Major General Mamman Jiya Vatsa of blessed memory.