President Bola Tinubu has designated the M18 route in the Guzape district of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as the Chinua Achebe Motorway.
According to Olusegun Dada, the president’s special assistant for social media, the motorway was opened on Saturday before being named after the late renowned novelist.
He said:
“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 died in 2013, at the age of 83. He was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic considered one of the pioneers of modern African writing.
On Tuesday, Tinubu named the newly opened arterial route N20 in the nation’s capital after Wole Soyinka, a well-known dramatist.
The president’s special assistant on communications and strategy, Bayo Onanuga, stated that the FCT government advocated naming the route after Soyinka.
Soyinka is the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
In May, FCT Minister Nyesom Wike named Abuja’s southern parkway after Tinubu.
The southern parkway, which runs from the National Christian Centre to Ring Road One, is considered one of the city’s key routes.