Member Since:
July 09, 2018
Usman Adamu
Biography
Usman Adamu Attaboh is from Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State—North Central Nigeria. He holds an Advanced Journalism certificate from Thomson Foundation, United Kingdom, and a first degree in Mass Communication from the University of Lagos. He also attended Command Secondary School, Ipaja, Lagos.
A veteran journalist, he has worked in such establishments as the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria where he did his Media Attachment programme, the Niger Delta Standard newspaper, and he was the editor of Surveillance newspaper, Port-Harcourt as well as the Ebony Herald International Magazine for many years. He is currently the editor of the GbaramatuVoice newspaper, the most authoritative newspaper currently in the Niger Delta part of Nigeria. He was presented with an award of excellence in the journalism profession in January 2022, by this news organization, he was shortlisted for the Gover Story Prize in 2018 (the story is included here) as well as for the NUHA Foundation Blogging Prizes in 2017.
He lives in Rivers State with his lovely wife and 3 beautiful daughters— Naomi, Rejoice, and Angel.
A veteran journalist, he has worked in such establishments as the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria where he did his Media Attachment programme, the Niger Delta Standard newspaper, and he was the editor of Surveillance newspaper, Port-Harcourt as well as the Ebony Herald International Magazine for many years. He is currently the editor of the GbaramatuVoice newspaper, the most authoritative newspaper currently in the Niger Delta part of Nigeria. He was presented with an award of excellence in the journalism profession in January 2022, by this news organization, he was shortlisted for the Gover Story Prize in 2018 (the story is included here) as well as for the NUHA Foundation Blogging Prizes in 2017.
He lives in Rivers State with his lovely wife and 3 beautiful daughters— Naomi, Rejoice, and Angel.
Books
Inikpi
by Usman Adamu
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 51,800.
Language:
Commonwealth English.
Published: September 10, 2018
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Categories:
Fiction » Literary collections » African
Inikpi is a collection of five stories. One of them, "The Autobiography of Ogbuefi Akukalia," was shortlisted for the Gover Story Prize in February, 2018.The main story is based on a true life story. The oracle demanded that the king's favourite daughter, Inikpi, must be sacrificed if the Igala people must defeat their age long foes. She accepted but Ogbadu refused and plotted a grand move.