A brother to Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate, Professor Femi Soyinka has passed away. Femi an ex-Provost of the College of Health Sciences of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, died on Tuesday at age 85. In a statement by his family, signed by his son, Ayodele, Soyinka died at his home in Kukumada Village, Ibadan, Oyo […]
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Popular Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Friday denied claims that he paid tribute to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu. Soyinka made this known in a statement titled, ‘I did not pay tribute to Tinubu – Soyinka’, issued by his spokesman, Abiola Owoaje. Reports had emerged entitled, ‘Prof Wole […]
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In a damning assessment of Mr. Jonathan’s tenure, Prof. Soyinka said the former president, who left office in May following his defeat by the incumbent, President Muhammadu Buhari, in the March 28 presidential poll, did not know that the nation had been compromised so badly under him until he (Soyinka) brought some issues to his […]
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