{"id":60922,"date":"2022-12-04T08:57:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T08:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=60922"},"modified":"2022-12-04T08:57:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T08:57:27","slug":"osundare-delivers-merit-award-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=60922","title":{"rendered":"Osundare delivers merit award lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Niyi Osundare will next Wednesday deliver the lecture at the Nigerian National Order Merit, (NNOM) Awards ceremony, holding in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Osundare was received in Abuja by two of his friends: Tunde Olusunle and Tivlumun Nyitse, both journalists and poets\u00a0 The renowned, multiple award-winning poet, literary critic, dramatist, scholar, essayist and public intellectual.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60923\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60923\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60923\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG-20221204-WA0000-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olusunle, Osundare, Nyitse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Osundare is a winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize; Noma Award and the Fonlon\/Nichols Prize for poetry, among others.\u00a0 He was in 2013, decorated with the Nigerian National Order Merit, (NNOM), the highest recognition for creative and intellectual excellence in Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Niyi Osundare will next Wednesday deliver the lecture at the Nigerian National Order Merit, (NNOM) Awards ceremony, holding in Abuja. Osundare was received in Abuja by two of his friends: Tunde Olusunle and Tivlumun Nyitse, both journalists and poets\u00a0 The renowned, multiple award-winning poet, literary critic, dramatist, scholar, essayist and public intellectual. Osundare is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":60923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3792,2372,5310],"class_list":["post-60922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-lecture","tag-merit","tag-osundare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}