In 2023, he won the Nigeria Prize for Literature for his work Grit.
[1][2] Gomba is an associate dean of Humanities and teaches Literary and Creative Writing at the University of Port Harcourt.
[1] He won the ANA Poetry Prize in 2017 and 2018 was a Honorary Fellow in Writing at the University of Iowa.
[2] Gomba's work had been shortlisted five times since 2013 for the Nigeria Prize for Literature prior to winning it in 2023 for his play Grit,[1] which Lindsay Barrett described as "a cautionary tale in which the reader or the onlooker is being alerted to the resilience and determined existence of GRIT as a quality of life.
... a wholesome commentary on Nigeria's contemporary political circumstance.