Soyinka was honoured in Nsukka, during the 2nd Memorial Chinua Achebe International Conference, organised by the Institute.
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Soyinka gave the advice on Thursday in Makurdi when he visited Benue Governor, Samuel Ortom.
The 2018 IPI congress will hold in June at the International Conference Centre, Abuja. About 350 journalists from across the world are expected at the congress, which is being hosted in Nigeria for the first time.
The endorsement was one of the resolutions of a grand national political summit held on March 21, 2018 in Abuja.
The Governor, who presented the Letter of the Honorary Ambassadorial Award to the literary icon on Friday in the Government House, Yenagoa, said the honour was bestowed on Soyinka because of his achievements and democratization of knowledge across the world.
Soyinka equally condemned the handling of the crisis in Southern Kaduna by President Muhammadu and the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai
Continuing, Prof Soyinka who warned against act of pettiness on the part of government over the grounded aircraft belonging to the Rivers State government said he was in Port Harcourt ahead of preparations for the 2014 Port Harcourt World Book festival