Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has failed to address the problems of Nigeria. Soyinka spoke when he played host to some students who paid him a visit on his 85th birthday. The literary icon said while state governments differ in success rates, “central government has failed”. He called on the […]
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Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, has challenged former President Olusegun Obasanjo to swear that he never awarded oil blocks in return for sexual gratification while he presided over the affairs of Nigeria. Soyinka spoke in his Interventions VIII series, titled: ‘Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?’ meaning “Gani’s Unfinished Business,” launched recently in Lagos, south-west Nigeria. “I now challenge […]
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The University of Ibadan, UI, on Tuesday 31 July 2018, at the 2nd Geoffery Axworthy Lecture renamed its 63 year old Arts Theatre after the Nigerian born literary icon and Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka. The aged arts theatre will now be known as “Wole Soyinka Theatre”. However, the programme was almost marred when the […]
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Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has advised former President Olusegun Obasanjo to desist from struggling to restore Nigeria to the path of sanity and moderate rectitude, describing him as ‘objectively unfitted’ for the role. He urged the former president to instead head for a monastery. Soyinka said, “…I know that deep inside, there is a […]
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Professor Wole Soyinka, a Nobel laureate, has informed President Muhammadu Buhari that the nation is dying. He urged the president to seek help if the federal government lacks the necessary resources to curtail the wanton killings across the country. Soyinka issued the advice in a statement titled ‘ON DEMAND: A Language of Non-Capitulation, Non-Appeasement!’ According to […]
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Renowned writer and a Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo as the most hypocritical leader Nigeria has produced, vowing to expose him at Freedom Park on July 3. He said this on Friday night at the gala dinner and award ceremony of the International Press Institute (IPI) in Abuja. Soyinka was […]
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The Federal Government has invited prominent Nigerian journalists, human rights activists and politicians to the ceremony in Abuja on Tuesday 12 June, to confer national honours on late billionaire Moshood Abiola; his running mate Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe and late prominent lawyer, Gani Fawehinmi. The journalists and activists invited all played salutary roles in the […]
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Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has advised the Federal Government to solicit support of international community if it could not cope with the insecurity bedevilling the country. He noted that the killings in Benue and other states are targeted at ethnic cleansing. Soyinka gave the advice on Thursday in Makurdi when he visited Benue Governor, […]
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Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 8th Commonwealth Regional Conference for Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Abuja, on Monday, Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, says the fight against corruption will not be won until some Nigerian leaders pass through the doors of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The professor said the country had […]
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Mayday, uttered three times, is the distress call “used to signal a life-threatening emergency primarily by aviators and mariners”. Long before its adoption for that function however, and more traditionally, there did exist Labour (or Workers’) Day, dedicated to the entitlement of workers to the value and dignity of their labour. The Nigerian constituency is […]
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