NEW ANA NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 2017-2019

1. DENJA ABDULLAHI- PRESIDENT
2. CAMILUS UKAH- VICE PRESIDENT
3. OFONIME INYANG- GENERAL SECRETARY
4. MAIK ORTSEGA- ASST GEN SEC
5. FARIDA MOHAMMED-TREASURER
6. IKHECHI OWABIE-FINANCIAL SECRETARY
7. ANAELE IHUOMA-AUDITOR
8. COL OLADELE BABAJAMU-PRO NORTH
9. WOLE ADEDOYIN- PRO SOUTH
10. ISSAC OGEZI-LEGAL ADVISER
11. ISAH DAN MUSA-EX-OFFICIO
12. LAMBERT OTOTO-EX-OFFICIO
13. ERNEST ONUOHA-EX-OFFICIO
14. TANKO OKODUWA-EX-OFFICIO


















ANA 2017 LITERARY PRIZES WINNERS


1. 1st Prize – Joint Winners of the ANA Prose Fiction Prize 2017
BOTH DUL JOHNSON’S ACROSS THE GULF
&
LOLA AKANDE’S WHAT IT TAKES
1ST RUNNER UP
KUKOGHO IRUESIRI SAMSON’S DEVIL’S PAWN
2ND RUNNER UP
IKE UTUAGHA’S GOODBYE TOMORROW
2. ANA POETRY PRIZE

1. ANA POETRY PRIZE
For Every Homeland ] By Obari Gomba Winner
Of Waters and the Wild By Ebi Yeibo 1st Runner up
A Child of Smell By Seyi Adigun 2nd Runner up

3. ANA DRAMA PRIZE
1st Position -R.C Ofodile play, Magnetism
Tunji Ajibade: The Masked Crown 2nd Position
Dickson Ekhaguere: General Ologbosere 3rd Position

Denja Abdulahi’s re-election in ANA : Major challenges he must tackle
Oct 30 2017 - 11:02am

Denja Abdulahi
By Ademola Adegbamigbe
The country’s body of writers, known as the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), has re-elected Denja Abdulahi as its President. That was at the 36th Delegates Convention, in Makurdi, Benue State last Saturday.
However, as he mounts the saddle for another period of two years, he and his executive members must tackle some major challenges: Funding, administrative “ad-hocism”, royalty for writers and others.
Indeed, Abdullahi has a lot to do for ANA, based on the association’s startegic plan. Moreover, he has to tackle the major challenges facing the association, the worst of which is funding that will help them carry out major projects and take care of recurrent expenditure.
He is also expected to address the issue of adhoc staff since every official is there on part time basis. As the President himself told a Nigeian medium before the election, “The status of the Association currently suggests it is ripe to have a full time compliment of staff to man its secretariat and run its affairs from day to day.” He added: “Presently, we only have one paid clerk in the Lagos Secretariat who is there only to receive correspondence and do other minor tasks. ANA is ripe to have an Executive Secretary and other staff that will be working for it to follow up on earmarked projects and programmes. All other challenges to the operations of the Association are tied to these two major lacks.”
However, Abdullahi has a lot of achievements to his credit in the first term. First, he delivered two legacies projects, the ANA documentary film and The Strategic Plan (2017-2022). He told Daily Trust: “I have given the Association clear focus, more visibility, consolidated on the past achievements of previous executives, democratize its operations, improve on its internal governance and have fast tracked the development of the writers’ village in Mpape, Abuja. It has been an eventful and impactful tenure by my reckoning and I have heard people say that we have done too much within two years.”
Apart from the President, half of the executives were, according to a press statement by the association, returned unopposed to run the affairs of the association for another two-year term.
The new executive members are: Denja Abdulahi, Camilus Ukah, Ofonime Inyang, Ikechi Owabie, Anaele Ihuoma and Issac Ogezi who were returned unopposed as President, Vice President, General Secretary, Financial Secretary, Auditor and Legal Adviser in that order.
Denja Abdulahi came into office in Nov. 2015 for two year tenure, and given his relection now, will be there till 2019.
The press release goes further: “However, the positions of Assistant General Secretary, National Treasurer, PRO North, PRO South and ex-officio members were keenly contested. But the result of the election produced Maik Ortsega as National Assistant Secretary, Mrs. Farida Mohammed as Treasurer, Col. Oladele Babajamu as PRO North, Wole Adedoyin as PRO South, Isah Dan Musa, Lambert Ototo and Ernest Onuoha as ex-officio members.
“The re-elected President, Denja Abdulahi, in his speech after the election thanked members of the association for their support assuring them of his team’s commitment to lift ANA to an enviable height in Nigeria and Africa.
“He said his first major assignment will be to empower members through educative programmes as highlighted in the Association’s Strategic Plan document and to ensure that every member of the association occupies strategic position in the country’s creative industry sector.”
http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2017/10/denja-abdulahis-re-election-in-ana-major-challenges-he-must-tackle/

THANK YOU MESSAGE FROM DENJA ABDULAHI – RE-ELECTED ANA PRESIDENT
I thank most sincerely members of the Association of Nigerian Authors for unanimously giving me their mandate to serve them again for another two years. I consider leadership a sacred trust that must be discharged with all sense of responsibility, fairness and justice. I intend to run an ever better administration than the last time, adhering strictly to our strategic plan, which will lead us into achieving a stronger, smarter and more prosperous fraternal Union. I appreciate most heartedly the Governor of Benue State for hosting the last convention and members of the LOC headed by Prof Idris Amali and ANA Benue for giving us a convention that is one of the best organized in recent times. The sacrifice of our members across the country who braved the bad roads and the harsh economic climate to attend must be commended. It is a show of love for the continued relevance of the Association; a gesture we at the leadership Corp must not take for granted. To our critics out there, your constructive criticism only makes us to do better and refine ourselves to achieve uncommon things for the good of all. Every one should come on board with this renewed leadership shed of partisanship so that we can achieve together for the Association. Lastly, I pledge on behalf on my Executive Team to take our Association determinedly to the next level.
Denja Abdullahi
President, ANA
Port Harcourt
http://www.nairaland.com/4150522/thank-message-denja-abdulahi-re-elected