I call on the Nigerian government and stakeholders to discontinue the NLNG prize for literature

and use the funds thus saved on productive literary initiatives on behalf of Nigerian writers. I
estimate that since the inception of the prize, the NLNG has wasted close to $6 million just to
administer what amounts to a lottery for who can hustle the most. We should be rewarding and
sustaining writers, especially young ones. This prize needs to be suspended until we can figure
out how best to use what is really a lot of money.- Ikhide R. Ikheloa, Facebook post, August
26 at 7:03am