President Bola Tinubu has named the M18 road in the Guzape district of the federal capital territory (FCT) as Chinua Achebe expressway.
Olusegun Dada, special assistant to the president on social
media, said the president inaugurated the expressway on Saturday before naming
it after the late renowned novelist.
“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Commissions the M18 road
infrastructure in Guzape District of Abuja. Names road after Nigerian Novelist
and Poet, late Professor Chinua Achebe,” he wrote.
Achebe died in 2013 at the age of 83. He was a Nigerian
novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as one of the fathers of modern
African literature.
On Tuesday, Tinubu named the inaugurated arterial road N20
from the northern parkway to the outer northern expressway (ONEX) in the
nation’s capital after Wole Soyinka, a famous playwright.
Bayo Onanuga, special adviser to the president on
information and strategy, had said the naming of the road after Soyinka was
recommended by the FCT administration.
Soyinka is the first African to win the Nobel Prize for
literature.
In May, Nyesom Wike, the FCT minister, named Abuja’s
southern parkway after Tinubu.
The southern parkway stretches from the National Christian
Centre to ring road one and is considered one of the city’s major spines.
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