Browsing: Prof. Wole Soyinka

Soyinka, in response to a story that was carried by a section of the media last week (excluding The Eagle Online), said he was yet to endorse any candidate for the presidential or governorship election

Soyinka, at a press conference in Lagos on Tuesday, said the latest of such impunity was the police siege on the National Assembly

‘Prof, it is barely 8am and you are already drinking wine so early? Now, come on, he said with that baritone of his as if ignoring my clerical authority: Is it not you Catholics who encourage us to have communion? That is exactly what I am doing’

Speaking to Reuters at his home surrounded by rainforest near the southwestern city of Abeokuta, Ogun State, Soyinka said the horrors inflicted by the militants had shown Nigerians across the mostly Muslim north and Christian south that sticking together might be the only way to avoid even greater sectarian slaughter

“This is a government which is not only in denial mentally, but in denial about certain obvious steps to take,” Soyinka, a Nobel laureate, who is often referred to as the conscience of his nation, told Amanpour

For the name of that hospital, it is reported, is none other than that of General Sanni Abacha, a vicious usurper under whose authority the lives of an elected president and his wife were snuffed out

Professor Wole Soyinka did not show up to receive his award while representatives of late Gani Fawehinmi and Fela Anikulapo-Kuti were also absent

While acknowledging the importance of the law as a legislation that will open up the vista of governance in Nigeria, Jeyifo wondered whether the law had not come at a time when there was little or no secrecy in the affairs of public officials and their attitude in the public sphere

In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the statement credited to PSC Chairman, Mike Okiro, suggests that his commission is only interested in the role of the police in last week’s clashes, rather than how the police hierarchy in the state wantonly allowed the flare-up simply because it is acting to protect certain interests at the expense of public interest

Osinlu said Soyinka, as a global and very influential personality, should watch his words as his views are capable of shaping public opinion either positively or negatively

Soyinka said that some of the solutions fall within the responsibility and capability of individuals and groups adding that everyone should resolve what role to play in transforming the society

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

Soyinka, who spoke at the 5th Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Colloquium in Lagos, also chided President Goodluck Jonathan for failing to address the deteriorating security situation in the country

“What is going on right now gives the picture of a government that is floundering and justifying the unjustifiable

Even comparatively stable societies, founded on democratic principles, continue till today to question the place and the role of Religion in national life. The only different between such a nation and ours is that, over yonder, it is not being pursued as a life-and-death issue, but as a fundamental, character forming principle of nation being

He stated that the inauguration of the prestigious prize for leadership at this period in the history of the nation was timely and auspicious as the objective of the prize coincides with the administration’s emphasis on transformational leadership, as a means of national resurgence, under the national Transformation Agenda

Soyinka, who is a UNESCO Ambassador, visited the groove also to inspect the conditions of the tourist sites, relics and natural resources within the groove.

Soyinka, who spoke on Thursday in Lagos at the 2012 Annual Conference of Women in Management, Business and Public Service, told newsmen that Boko Haram was part of an international network of terrorist groups that only understood violence

Soyinka, who spoke on Thursday, in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, at the public presentation of Port Harcourt as UNESCO World Book Capital for 2014, said it was painful watching the video clip of how the students were killed and burnt