SYNW TAKES READING ADVOCACY TO EKITI STATE, SET TO LAUNCH EKITI BOOK CLUB ON FRIDAY, MAY 21

The Society of Young Nigerian Writers has expressed readiness to inaugurate Ekiti Book Club on Friday, 21st of May 2021 at Phase 1, New Pavilion Lecture Hall, Federal University of Oye (FUOYE) Ekiti, Ekiti State. by 2:00PM.

This was contained in a press release issued by SYNW President, Wole Adedoyin in Ibadan on Friday.

According to the release, the need to promote effective reading habits among the general populace of Nigeria has resulted into the Society of Young Nigerian Writers (SYNW) establishing reading clubs in some notable towns and cities across the country.

Apart from the book clubs, the Read Across Nigeria (RAN), Paperless Book Club (strictly for reading electronic books), National Book Awareness Week - https://nabawknigeria..com, African Book Week - https://africanbookweek..com , Children’s Book Week - https://cbwnigeria..com , National Week of Remembrance for Departed Writers (NAWRED) - https://nawredonline..com, National Book Hub - https://nationalbookhub..com are part of the strategies SYNW initiated to ginger up the reading culture in Nigeria.

In SYNW, we believe reading is a worldwide phenomenon that has the capacity to promote development as well as instill discipline on the individual. In spite of the importance of reading as a culture, it has become obvious that Nigerian children and youth no longer read. They only read when they have examination to write, outside that, reading has no meaning to them.

Ekiti Book Club hopes to sensitize, revive and promote moribund/dwindling reading culture in Ekiti state and its environs.

SYNW finally enjoined intending participants, readers and writers in Ekiti state and its environs to partake in this historical development.