Tag: Wole Soyinka
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Open grazing: You’re mentally handicapped – Soyinka slams Buhari
Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of suffering from “mental delusion.” Soyinka was reacting to Buhari’s review of Open Grazing routes in some state of the nation. Criticizing Buhari for ordering a review of the grazing routes despite public outcry, Soyinka said the President may be suffering from noise deafening. Addressing…
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Soyinka: Celebrating Our Own Kongi At 87, By Dan Amor
By DAN AMOR It was once the fashion to single out four men of letters as the supreme titans of world literature-Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe-each the embodiment of a great epoch of Western culture-ancient, medieval, Renaissance and modern. These four literary icons of all time remain secure; but idolatry of Professor Wole Soyinka as…
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Apologise to Igboho, stop chasing him like criminal – Wole Soyinka tells FG
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has asked the Federal Government to apologise to Sunday Igboho after officials of the Department of State Services invaded his home and killed two of his associates. The DSS invaded Igboho’s house in Ibadan, Oyo State, early on Thursday based on intelligence it said it had received that he was stockpiling…
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How Wole Soyinka, activists lost credibilty to APC in 2015 – Hon Teejay Yusuf
Hon Teejay Yusuf, representing Kabba/Ijumu Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives on Wednesday said Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka and other prominent activists lost credibility to All Progressives Congress (APC) due to their support for the party in 2015. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Yusuf made this disclosure while appearing in the House of Representatives…
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Nigeria’s herders-Farmers crisis could degenerate into civil war – Soyinka
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has said the conflict between herders and farmers across the country can degenerate into a civil war. In a chat with BBC Pidgin, the , Nobel laureate commended the moves to resolve the situation, adding that there is need to prevent further violence. He criticised the government’s handling of the…
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Trending video: Igboho praises Obasanjo, Soyinka, other prominent Yoruba leaders for backing call for herders exit in Yorubaland
Yoruba rights Activist, Sunday Adeyemo is popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has said he is not intimidated by the threat of arrest. Igboho had asked herdsmen in Igangan, Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo to leave within seven days following reports of the killing of some indigenes. He had blamed herders and Fulanis, especially…
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Nobel laureate, Soyinka to publish first novel in 48 years
Award winning Nigerian playwright,Wole Soyinka is set to publish his first novel in 48 years. The renowned author, who became the first African to win the Nobel prize for literature in 1986, broke the news of his forthcoming book, in a recent statement. He said the novel titled ‘Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest…
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Wole Soyinka: ‘Identity thieves, lunatics lied that I said Igbo should leave Yoruba land’
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka on Saturday said those trying to steal his identity to promote the video clip of an ethnic revanchist calling on Igbo to leave Yoruba land, are sick and cowards. Soyinka in a statement, titled: “Identity thieves on the rampage,” lamented that in order to promote the video clip of an…
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Lekki tollgate shooting: Nigeria back to Abacha days – Wole Soyinka
Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka has compared President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to General Sani Abacha days. Soyinka, who said this while criticizing the shooting of unarmed End SARS demonstrators at Lekki toll gate on Tuesday, alleged that the army has replaced the notorious SARS unit. A statement he signed and released on Wednesday said according to…
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DÉJÀ VU – In tragic vein, By Wole Soyinka
By Wole Soyinka To the affected governors all over the nation, there is one immediate step to take: demand the withdrawal of those soldiers. Convoke Town Hall meetings as a matter of urgency. 24-hr Curfews are not the solution. Take over the security of your people with whatever resources you can rummage. Substitute community…