The United States Embassy in Lagos stated this following the revelation by Soyinka that his US visa had been revoked by the country.
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Professor Soyinka recounted the harrowing experience in the foreign country in an interview he granted to TheNEWS magazine.
Professor Soyinka expected fanfare, respect, perhaps a coronation of words and wisdom. But what he got instead was the shock of his life.
The Nobel Laureate threw his weight behind the Isese Day celebration, saying it offered the people a rare opportunity to reconnect with their cultural roots.
While Jonathan described the development as capable of bringing Nigeria into disrepute, Soyinka said it was against the spirit of federalism.
Yet again, in 2007, a state governor took four pages each in virtually all newspapers in Nigeria to denigrate me as a blackmailer.
Astrologists describe them as persons who are compassionate, creative, inquisitive, changeable, sensitive and protective.
What equation will come on earth that will make a small fry like me look into the eyes of a god like Soyinka?
Hussaini, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday, described the development as “the kind of recognition one will wish for a giant like Wole Soyinka”.
The Arterial Road N-20 stretched from Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Expressway to Outer Northern Expressway (Murtala Mohammed Expressway).
He said this in an interview with Noble Nigeria as preparations for the 2027 polls in Nigeria appeared to have kicked off.
Prof. Soyinka made the call at the 50th anniversary lecture of PUNCH newspaper, themed: “Recovering the Narrative.”
A former Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture in Lagos State, Steve Ayorinde, is the curator.
He made the allegation in an interview on a Channels Television programme: “The Morning Brief,” on Wednesday.
So also did he carpet the EFCC boss, Ola Olukoyede, for saying only President Bola Tinubu can free Agunloye.
The opposition Labour Party LP has chided Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, for accusing it of an attempt to deceive Nigerians to believe that its Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, won the last Presidential poll.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has poured encomiums on Nobel Laureate and elder statesman, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on his 89th birthday, describing him as a veritable source of support, inspiration and encouragement.
“I have already done it; I have disengaged (from the United States). I have done what I said I would do,” the 82-year-old said on the sidelines of an education conference at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa
The literary event, entitled: “An Evening with Wole Soyinka and Nigeria’s Young Literary Stars,” is scheduled for next Friday at the Convention Centre of Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has described Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as “a worthy ambassador” of the nation’s…