A few days after that Prof. Wole Soyinka, President Bola Tinubu, on Saturday, approved the naming of the M18 road infrastructure in Guzape District, Abuja after a renowned novelist, Chinua Achebe.
Tinubu stated this during his address at the inauguration of the road in Abuja on Saturday, June 8.
This was contained in a post by Special Assistant to President Tinubu on Social Media, Olusegun Dada.
He wrote: “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Commissions the M18 road infrastructure in Guzape District of Abuja. Names road after Nigerian Novelist and Poet, late Professor Chinua Achebe.”
Achebe was a globally celebrated literary giant with many books to his name, including Things Fall Apart, The Man of The People, There was a Country, and others. He died in 2013.