Oyin Olugbile is a Nigerian-born author and cultural storyteller whose work boldly reimagines African myths, matriarchal power, and spiritual memory.
NLNG's MD/CEO, Philip Mshelbila, handing over the prize plaque to the 2025 Winner, Oyin Olugbile in Lagos
NLNG's Deputy MD, Olakunle Osobu, presenting The Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism award to Okwudiri Anasiudu in Lagos
2025 NPL winner, Oyin Olugbile, and the NPCL winner, Okwudiri Anasiudu, with their plaques after the NLNG Grand Award Night
Sanya by Oyin Olugbile Wins 2025 NPL
Sanya, the novel by Oyin Olugbile, has been announced as the winner of The Nigeria Prize for Literature 2025, one of Africa’s most prestigious literary awards worth USD $100,000.
The announcement was made at the Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) Grand Award Night in Lagos by Professor Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, Chair of the Prize’s Advisory Board. Click Here to read the judges’ report. Tap on ‘read more’ for more information on the story.
Nigeria Prizes Awards
The Nigeria Prize for Science
The Nigeria Prize for Science worth USD100,000 in award money, aims at celebrating excellence in scientific breakthroughs and honours scientists.
The Nigeria Prize for Literature
The Nigeria Prize for Literature is one of the 10 richest and most prestigious literary prizes in the world and worth USD100,000 in award money.
Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism
The Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism, with a $10,000 cash reward, aims to raise the public’s awareness of Nigerian authors and literary critics.
Nigeria Prizes Winners
Olubunmi Familoni
Winner, The Nigeria Prize for Literature 2024
Olubunmi Familoni writes plays, short fiction, and essays. His collection of stories, Smithereens of Death, won the ANA Prize for Short Stories in 2015.
Obari Gomba
Winner, The Nigeria Prize for Literature 2023
Obari Gomba won The Nigeria Prize for Literature (2023)
Professsor Meihong Wang
Co-winner, The Nigeria Prize for Science 2024
Professor Wang leads Process and Energy Systems Engineering Research Group at University of Sheffield (since 2016), UK with expertise in modelling, optimization and control for power plants, carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS), energy storage and bio-energy.
Shortlists for The Nigeria Prize for Literature 2025
