President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Bola Ahmed Tinubu has named the M18 road in the Guzape district of the federal capital territory (FCT) after renowned novelist, Chinua Achebe.
This was contained in a post by Special Assistant to President Tinubu on Social Media, Olusegun Dada.
He stated that the president inaugurated the expressway on Saturday before naming it after the late renowned novelist.
This is coming four days after the president named the inaugurated arterial road 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 the first African to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
However, Chinua 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.
