The commendation was showered on the foremost brewing company at the LIPFEST Wide Awake Concert, where renowned poets showcased their talents on contemporary issues and moral values at the Muson Centre on November 3, 2018.
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Osundare described Governor Ayodele Fayose as a demagogue who pounced on the moral degradation in the state to promote stomach infrastructure as a fundamental policy of state.
Eminent scholars and admirers on Sunday described Prof. Niyi Osundare as a charming, humble and deep-rooted thinker, whose voice has…
The governor said: “Even though the conferment of the distinguished award is not unexpected considering your towering status as a prolific writer, dramatist, poet and essayist of global repute. It is an undeniable testimony to your outstanding scholarship, significant contributions to the Nigerian Poetic diction
The award, which is the highest and most prestigious prize for outstanding intellectual and academic attainment, will be presented to Osundare by President Goodluck Jonathan on December 4 in Abuja
Eo fun ruru, Spectacular as money is
E toniyan It can never rival the human being
Mo gbose tigbagi I stubbed a toe
E yo wi ki mi okun It couldn’t express its sympathy
Osundare, who delivered a keynote address at the Opening Ceremony of the first Ikogosi Graduate Summer School, holding at the Ikogosi Warm Spring Resort, Ikogosi-Ekiti, also described Fayemi as the "author of new book of change in Ekiti"