Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu , Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu , Talban Minna, the former Governor of Niger State is responsible for the great boom in creative writing in Niger State between 2010-2015. This was a golden age for writers in Niger State when he created the Niger State Book Development Agency for writers in 2012. Between 2011 and 2015, Nigerian writers paid annual pilgrimage to Minna for the MBA Annual International Literary Colloquium. Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu donated a piece of land to writers in Niger State to build a writers village in Minna. He single-handedly published 10 writers that formed the first set of the Nigeria Writers Series. Dr. Mu’azu Babangida’s contributions are more than what has been mentioned here. However, Hill-Top Creative Arts Foundation (HCAF) will not forget his visit to her headquarters in 2015 to felicitate with them on what was taking place there. His visit coincided with a time Saddiq Dzukogi was invited to Uganda to attend that year’s Writ...
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