Ibadan Book Club Greets Jide Ogunlana, Ex Nelson Senior Editor on his Birthday Anniversary

 

IBADAN BOOK CLUB GREETS JIDE OGUNLANA, EX NELSON SENIOR EDITOR ON HIS BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY

 

Ibadan Book Club has felicitated with Jide Ogunlana, a Novelist, Editor, Playwright, Publisher and one of the patrons of Ibadan Book Club over his birthday celebration.

In a statement issued by the Coordinator and Secretary of the Club, Ayobami Odunyemi and Mary Ndukwo on Monday in Ibadan said the Club joined Jide Ogunlana’s family and friends in celebrating his new age.

According to the release, “There are many different leadership styles but some motivate and inspire more than others. Good bosses lead by example and we can say, hand on heart, that you are one of the good ones!”

 

“Leaders are the stars of the night and the moon that gives light to our path in the dark. We are glad you are these and more. We see them all. The sacrifices, the selflessness and your humility. We wish you all that you wish for yourself and many more.”

“Members of Ibadan Book Club are wishing you a wonderful birthday today!  On your special day today, we just want to thank you for your phenomenal leadership and everything else that you do! Happy birthday to a truly magnificent leader! Your leadership is second to none and so very inspirational.”

“May your birthday bless you with all the courage and strength you require to continue performing your role as outstandingly as you do! Wishing you a happy life of successes.”

 

Jide Ogunlana is a Novelist, Editor, Playwright and Professional Publisher, Two of Ogunlana’s plays, Verbal Violence and Clash of the Gods have been successfully staged in the Arts Theatre of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and they are being read at The Polytechnic, Ibadan and some higher institutions in the country. One of his short stories and extracts of his stories have also been published in some editions of ANA Review of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA).

 

 

Ogunlana’s storybook, Primrose and the Kidnappers won the 2018 ANA Prize for Children’s Literature. Many of his books have been approved for school use in the current lists of books of Oyo State Ministry of Education.

 

 

Other publications by Jide Ogunlana include: Two Plays of Verbal Attack, Esin Amope (Yoruba) The Adventure of Three Wild Boys (published under a pseudonym, Wale Adewale), Primrose and the Kidnappers, Three Strange Stories for Children, Awesu in a Strange House, A Girl Called Corona Sofia and From Marriage to Prison (A Collection of Short Stories).

 

 

As an editor, he worked with Evans Brothers (Nig. Publishers) Ltd for some years before establishing his own publishing company where he now works as a writer, a rewriter and an editor.  His work with the Evans Brothers as a Senior Editor exposed him to various works of great writers both locally and internationally. As an independent editor, he has edited outstanding works of many popular Nigerian writers such as the prose works of Dr Wale Okediran, the Secretary General of Pan African Writers Association (PAWA) and a former Member of the House of Representatives, the biography of a former governor, the prose work of Diipo Fagunwa, the only surviving child of D.O. Fagunwa and the autobiography of Prof. Samuel Olusegun Ayodele, a renowned Nigerian professor of English.

 

Ibadan Book Club finally prayed that the Almighty God will grant Jide Ogunlana longer life, good health and more strength to celebrate more fruitful years.