Poetry Sango-Ota has announced Aishat Yahkub as the winner of the 2025 Kukogho Iruesiri Samson Poetry Prize for her poem What Holds the Needy Road on the Way Home.
First Runner-Up
- Samuel A. Betiku for Epiphany II.
Second Runner-Up
- Adejoke A. Alagbe for Dusk in the Cassava Fields.
The organisers also announced two Honourable Mentions, namely:
- Wash-Anigboro Harry for To Be A Poet, You Must Still Fire.
- James-Ibe Chinaza for Dusk Ripens at its Zenith.
A Nigerian creative, poet, art enthusiast, and overwhelmed medical student, Aishat Yahkub, is a “Best Of The Net” nominee; her poem Morning Rituals and How to Contain Chaos was a finalist for the 2024 Akachi Chukwuemeka Prize for literature. Others appear in Brittle Paper, Agbowó, Fiery Scribe Review, Peppercoast, and elsewhere.
Congratulations, Aishat Yahkub!
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