READERSHIP PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES

  

 

                            

 

THE INTERVENTION PROGRAMMES

The National Library of Nigeria in her determination to walk the talk to make the readership campaign promotion an all-year-round exercise, will kick-start intervention activities aimed at positive engagement of the young ones for academic excellence. The Library will leverage technology to make the readership promotion campaign have a wider reach and be more participatory.  

The programme, “Celebrating the Evergreen Pen” apart from its principal objective, which is to promote the reading culture among Nigerians, will focus on the need to highlight the contribution of the main messages in the work to: development of critical thinking capacity among the young ones, provoking innovative ideas, promoting national cohesion, and engendering national development.

The strategy will involve the yearly listing of the names of authors selected for the monthly programme “Celebrating the Evergreen Pen” and whose birthdays fall within the period. A read-only and non-downloadable copy of the author's work being celebrated will be serialized for the public to create access to the material of choice for the month’s book review and discussion programmes. There must be evidence of compliance with the legal deposit provision by an author to be so honoured. On our list for 2024/2025 edition are:                                      

Date	Celebrant/Date	Title	Online Access
July 13,2024	Wole Soyinka/ 13/7/1934	The Road	July 5-10,2024
July 17, 2024	Senator Nwafor Orizu/ 17/7/1914 (Posthumous)		July 10-14,2024
July 21, 2024	Buchi Emecheta(Posthumous) 217/ 1944	The Second Class Citizen	July 16-19,2024
September 15 2024	Chimananda Adiche/15/9/1977	The Purple Hibiscus	September 9-13,2024
September 26, 2024	Cyprian Ekwensi/ 26/9/1921 (Posthumous)	The Burning Grass/ Drummer Boy	September 18-21,2024
November 16, 2024	Chinua Achebe/ 16/1/1930 (Posthumous)	A Man Of The People	November 10-14,2024
January 1, 2025	Irenosen Okojie/ 1/1/1977		December 24-29, 2024
January 13,2025	Flora Nwapa/ 13/1/1931 (Posthumous)	Come Never Again/ Efuru	January 7-11,2025
February 3, 2025	Zaynab Akali/ 3/2/1950	The Invisible Border	February 28-March 1, 2025
March 15, 2025	Ben Okri/15/3/1959	The Last Call Of The Master/	March 9-13,2025
May 12, 2025	Elechi Amadi/12/5/1934	The Concubine/ Slave	May 5-9,2025
June 16, 2025	Femi Osofisan/16/6/2025	The Midnight Hotel	June 10-14,2025
June 20, 2025	Amos Tutuola Posthumous /20/6/2025	The Palm-wine  Drunkard	June 14-18, 2025

The Library will encourage success at any competitive engagement she puts out through book-prize awards; autographed and endorsed by the National Librarian/CEO and the Honourable Minister of Education. The Library with the crucial stakeholders in the Book industry will introduce the Best-Selling awards for different genres of literature and Sciences. The #Readyourwaytothetop# campaign will commence with ‘Meet the Great Mind’ programme aimed at showcasing Nigerians who through education have distinguished themselves. Our charity shall begin at home by first featuring the Honourable Ministers of Education, the Head of Federal Civil Service, and the NL/CEO

The details about other intervention programmes shall be provided over time, please watch out.

 Abdulazeez Mistura Kikelomo (Mrs)

Deputy Director (VLSD)