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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Popular Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has again hit out at President Muhammadu Buhari over the state of the nation, saying “it is finished.” Soyinka faulted President Buhari’s decision to grant state pardon to some Nigerians convicted of corruption. The frontline playwright said the President had placed all his eggs in one basket and that […]
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Popular Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has denied claims that he has endorsed the presidential ambition of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Pictures of Soyinka and Tinubu went viral on Wednesday after the former Lagos State Governor declared his presidential ambition. The post, which first trended in 2021, quoted Soyinka […]
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Nigeria’s Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called on Igbo indigenes to ignore threats asking them to leave Yorubaland. Recall that in a video circulating on social media, Grandson Adeyinka, a UK-based Nigerian, called on Igbo indigenes to leave south-west states. Grandson was arrested arrest in London in 2019 for allegedly “stirring racial discrimination” against the […]
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Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has made claims that President Muhammadu Buhari is not in charge of Nigeria. Soyinka said this while speaking during an interview on PlusTv Africa on Thursday. The Professor was reacting to an open letter written to the President by retired colonel and former Military Administrator of Kaduna, Umar Dangiwa. Dangiwa, […]
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Foremost playwright and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says he does not believe that President Muhammadu Buhari is in charge of Nigeria. The renowned writer said this while speaking in an interview with PlusTv Africa, on Thursday. He said the answer to the nation’s problem is decentralisation, adding that there’s a need for the people […]
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By Soyinka, Cabral, Kane, et al. The threats that are hanging over the African continent with regards to the spread of COVID-19 demand our individual and collective attention. The situation is critical. Yet this is not about mitigating another ‘African’ humanitarian crisis but to diffuse the potentially damaging effects of a virus that has shaken […]
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Nigerian playwright and Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has said Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state, was not given good advise on the dethronement of Muhammadu Sanusi II. Read the piece, FOR WHOM THE GATES OPEN below: These are depressing times – stemming from different factors of course – for a largesector of the nation. Insecurity, […]
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Nobel Laurette, Wole Soyinka has told the DSS to release Sowore, the convener of the RevolutionNow protest, to save Nigeria the embarrassment before the international community. He made this call in a statement which was signed by himself. Soyinka said “The weaponry of lies having been exploded in their faces, they resorted to violence, including, […]
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