MULTIPLE award wining actress, Sola Onayiga (Ireti of Fuji House of Commotion and Mrs. Etuk of Tinsel fame), was in Ikenne, Ogun State at Ikenne Town Hall, in company of Film Director Segun Obadare-Akpata and Olu Okekanye, representing Association of Nigerian Authors to speak to secondary school students from Ogun State on Effective Ways of choosing a career at a workshop on How to Write, Publish and Sell your Books.
The workshop was organised by the International Restoration Crusade of The Ransomed Christian Centre as part of its yearly crusade and to also mark the World Book Day.
The convener of the workshop, Pastor Tosin Onayiga, said apart from achieving the goal of the topic, it is also designed to have students who were in attendance to turn in stories, poems and plays for publication to start a Student Writers Series.
The Series, Pastor Onayiga said, would not be limited to Ogun State alone, as mode for entry for students from other states would soon be made known to the public.
The state’s Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Barrister Segun Odubela, said the programme is a good opportunity for talent discovery and precursor to relevance in making talent discovered to be useful not only to their schools, but the state and their country at large.
The crusade ended with a Thanksgiving service at Methodist Church, Ikenne.
Meanwhile, Onayiga has been appointed as Judge by the National Troupe of Nigeria for the National Dramatized Story Telling Competition for Secondary School Students, which runs from May to June at the National Theatre, Iganmu Lagos.
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