BY ORIAKU IJELE For Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, the issue of Nigeria’s next president should take national healing into consideration; and to this end, the renowned writer says he strongly advises that the position be ceded to the S’East region of the country. To heal from the civil war, Soyinka suggested that the presidency […]
Nobel laureate and renowned playwright, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the terror attack in Owo, last Sunday, as a message to the South West. Soyinka made the remark when he visited Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu,SAN, on Friday, at his office, Alagbaka, Akure on a condolence visit over the terror attack in Owo, DailyTimes […]
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has maintained that Yoruba freedom fighter, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Igboho is not a criminal. Soyinka said the Nigerian Government should tag herdsmen killing people and raping women as criminals and not Igboho. Speaking with journalists at the Freedom Park in Lagos on Friday, the Nobel Laureate said Igboho’s agitation cannot […]
Prof. Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Laureate, condemned citizens’ inaction for the terrible status of the Nigerian economy and rising insecurity. Soyinka, speaking at the 24th edition of the Wole Soyinka Lecture Series, organized by the National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity), remarked that by refusing to take to the streets, Nigerians have permitted whatever is […]
Prof. Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Laureate, has claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s government is unable to unite Nigeria due to structural failure. On Saturday, Soyinka announced this at a book reading and signing in Abuja for two of his books, titled “Trumpism in Academe” and “Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth.” He was responding […]
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has called for a national mobilisation to combat the menace of insecurity bedevilling the country. He also said Nigeria’s sovereignty had been taken away by Boko Haram terrorists, bandits and other criminal elements. In a direct reference to President Muhammadu Buhari, the Nobel laureate said the President could not end […]
Prof. Wole Soyinka, a professor of Literature spoke at the Booksellers, venue of the presentation of his new book, ‘Chronicles of the happiest people on earth,’ a book with over 500 pages which took him about 40years to write. Daily Times report. Soyinka said, “With the turbulence that characterises year 2020, and as activities wind […]
Wole Soyinka Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described Nigeria as greatly divided, noting that the country is at the “very edge of total collapse.” Soyinka made this known in a letter on Tuesday entitled “Between ‘Dividers-in-Chief ’ and Dividers-in-Law”. The letter reads in part: “I am notoriously no fan of Olusegun Obasanjo, General, twice […]
Professor Wole Soyinka laureate and renowned dramatist, has urged men who have prostrate cancer to patronize Nigerian hospitals for treatment instead of going out of the country revealed. READ ALSO: Kill! Is this what humanity, society are all about?, Soyinka asks lawmakers In an interview with BBC, Soyinka stated, ”There is no disease in the […]
By Reuben Abati Professor Wole Soyinka was keynote speaker at the maiden annual lecture of the Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism held in Lagos on March 15. Topic: “Rebuilding Trust in a Divided Nigeria: Can Nigeria be fixed?” The Nobel Laureate did not disappoint. His presentation titled “From Miyetti to Haiti: Notes from […]
* Insists killing herdsmen, new breed of Boko Haram Faults reinstatement of suspended NHIS boss Yusuf Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is under a trance, saying that the sooner the President got out of the trance, the better for the country Soyinka disclosed this on Tuesday while reacting to […]
He is unpredictable and dramatic in more ways than one. A poet and a playwright. A linguistic stylist and a word juggler per excellence. At the height of his literary sojourn, he won for Africa as the first writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Before then, he had been through […]
The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has described the eight-year reign of Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, as unequalled since the creation of the State in 1967, stating that Governor Amaechi is the best governor in the history of Rivers State. “Governor Amaechi has set new standards in […]
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Thursday, extolled the contributions of former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, to nation-building, describing them as architects of the change that made the All Progressives Congress (APC) to emerge victorious at federal level as well as in most states in the recently […]
Nigeria’s literary icon, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has dismissed recent reports alleging that he described the Igbos as people who vote based on their stomach. It would be recalled that some online media had quoted Soyinka as saying Igbo were politically naive while delivering a lecture titled ‘Predicting Nigeria, Electoral Ironies’ at Harvard University Hutchins […]
LAST Thursday, playwright Wole Soyinka took the drama-starved Lagos audience back into time to pry into a persistent human folly and ambition when the final day celebrationof this year’s Lagos Black Heritage Festival (LBHF) celebration turned into a dramatic thrill with a grand performance of Beatification of Area Boy. The play written and directed by […]
In an interview with Guardian Uk, Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, described the inconclusive presidential and National Assembly elections as the most vicious, unprincipled, vulgar and violent he had ever witnessed. He also said that the amount of money spent on campaign was the most expensive, most prodigal, wasteful, senseless. The Nobel Laurel, Wole […]
President Goodluck Jonathan must rein in Doyin Okupe and other sycophants. Chinua Achebe reminds us that those whose palm kernels were cracked by the gods must remain humble. A shoeless school boy who rose to the presidency cannot afford to have an aide misrepresenting him as a contestant for the position of Jesus Christ. Okupe presented President […]
The Minister of Finance and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka have said that only a united effort by Nigerians can stop terrorism. They spoke at a National Rally Against Terror, organised by the Nigerians Unite Against Terror (NUAT), a group co-coordinated by Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin […]