ILLEC COMPETITIONS

COMPETITIONS ORGANIZED BY INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES LEARNING CENTRE (ILLEC) 1. Nupe Literature Prize (NLP) 2. Nupe Radio Quiz for Secondary Schools (NuQSeS) 3.  Nupe Language Festival for secondary Schools (NULFES). NUPE LITERATURE PRIZE (NPL) Nupe Literature Prize is an annual competition that is organized by ILLEC. It started in 2019. The aim of the competition is…

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Sadisu Mohammed

Sadisu Mohammed otherwise known as Teacher Yekondu in Nupe movie industry, Niger State and Nupe land, lived a rather short life of adventures, writings, theatre, movies, artistic restlessness, social anxiety and a crusader of Nupe language and culture in Nigeria.  He was a humourist, satirist, dramatist, poetry performer per excellence, playwright, short story writer, para-poet,…

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Hussaini Mohammed

Hussaini Mohammed was born on 5th March 1997, his parents are Mall Mohammed Kotsu (Yagana) and Mallama Adama (Ya Yelwa) Mohammed. He attended Limawa Model Primary School, Minna. He proceeded to Government Day Secondary School, Minna in  2012, and later studied Public Administration at Fati Lami Abubakar Institute For Legal And Administrative Studies (Flailas). He…

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INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES LEARNING CENTRE (ILLEC)

Motto:- Say no to Language Extinction This is a Nupe language and literacy/literary organisation established by Adamu Idris Manarakis to preserve, promote and develop its autography and literatures for studies and public utilisation. VISION To encourage the use of Niger State’s indigenous languages in both spoken and written forms within the family, community and in official…

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Isyaku Bala Ibrahim

Isyaku Bala Ibrahim, MNIM, is popularly known as the ‘Nupe Writer’ born in Tudun Nufawa, Kaduna, to the late Malam Ibrahim Saidu and Malama Fatima Usman Kocita. He is an indigene of Gbako Local Government Area of Niger State from a village called Bidafu-Zhaba. He started his early education at Bosso Primary School, Bosso and then…

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