In an interview published by BBC News Pidgin on Wednesday, the globally celebrated playwright, whose US visa was recently revoked, said he had anticipated such actions the moment Donald Trump became president.
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According to him, Amaechi, the transportation minister under former President Muhammadu Buhari, gave Tinubu a dose of his own medicine.
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has stressed the need to promote Nigeria’s local languages and culture in order to drive…
Professor Soyinka, who spoke with The Africa Report, said the declaration of emergency rule undermines the spirit of federalism.
Soyinka disclosed this at the 2024 edition of his International Cultural Exchange Programme, held at his ARI residence, Ijegba, Abeokuta, Ogun State capital.
And I don’t mean this merely when he is often telling those in government the truth or only when it is done in public.
He said this in a statement after the conviction of former President Donald Trump on Thursday, with sentencing on July 11.
The ex-Minister spoke at an event to commemorate the 90th birthday of Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, in Lagos.
Soyinka spoke at the Punch 50th Anniversary Lecture titled “Recovering the Narrative” at Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos.
He said this at the 48th President’s party and his investiture as honorary member of Abeokuta Club, Ogun State.
Professor Soyinka stated this in Lagos State when he fielded questions from State House Correspondents on Sunday.
The former Provost of the College of Health Sciences of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, died on Tuesday at the age of 85.
Soyinka, a former lecturer at OAU, spoke at a lecture titled, ‘The Politics of Black Intellection and Creativity, at the University of Pennsylvania, the United States’, which was the first of the newly-inaugurated Distinguished Lecture series in African Studies.
The book “101 Fake News on #EndSARS” which is edited by Dahiru M. Lawal, a staff of PRNigeria, identifies major fake news items that contributed to the massive destructions after the peaceful #EndSARS movement turned to violent protests nationwide in 2020.
“How can you place the will for separation as a criminal act? That kind of language doesn’t exist in the constitution, it doesn’t exist in law. It does not exist in the catalogue of immoralities because it is not an immoral act or position to say that you want to stop being part of an entity or you want to join an entity,” he said.
Soyinka said this during an interview on Arise Television on Tuesday
The Federal Government had on Friday announced the ban of Twitter in Nigeria for deleting a tweet on the Nigerian Civil War by President Buhari.
Odunsi emerged the winner of the global tourney by 30 clear points ahead of opponents from China, the United States, Australia, United Kingdom, South Africa and Germany. Faith first won the hearts of many in 2018 when she set a record in the Cowbellpedia Mathematics Competition by answering 19 questions in 60 seconds.
Soyinka described late Odumakin as a persistent and brave fighter.
Speaking during the inauguration in Abeokuta the governor noted that the operatives of the Amotekun security outfit had been carefully chosen and trained to secure lives and property.