Omisore was accused by several persons of having a hand in Ige’s death following an altercation between the two.
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Prof. Soyinka, who said unsolved crimes only lead to a culture of impunity, spoke at the 20th anniversary of Ige’s killing.
Soyinka said this when he spoke during the event tagged ‘An Evening with Professor Wole Soyinka,’ in London on Monday, November 22.
Soyinka said though he disliked the subject while in secondary school, mathematics actually became his saving grace in prison
It says this year, the fellowship will focus on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) and Criminal Justice.
Or better still, you could think you were watching a dramatised version of Wole Soyinka’s The Trials of Brother Jero. Jero is a satiric comedy that parodies Nigerian religionists’ hypocrisy and cunning, which they garnish with seasonings of fraud and charlatanism.
Speaking against the backdrop of the recent encroachment of Prof. Wole Soyinka’s Ijegba, Abeokuta, Ogun State residence by herders, Adams, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Aderemi, said the manner of the encroachment was largely a threat to the privacy of the Nobel laureate.
MURIC’s suggestions came in the wake of the discovery that the owner of the cows that strayed into Prof. Wole Soyinka’s compound is a Southerner and a Yoruba man
The explanation followed conflicting reports that the elder statesman had been sacked from his house by rampaging Fulani herdsmen
Soyinka spoke in a statement on Monday amid undying calls for the head of the cleric over the message by the government, groups and individuals.
Nobody has any evidence whether the Nobel Laureate actually wielded a pair of scissors and physically sheared his green card, but it was confirmed that he rendered it “inoperable.” Soyinka said he “felt disaster in my marrow”.
President Buhari is from Katsina State and had only hours earlier arrived in the state before the kidnap of the boys from their school.
A former Editor of The Guardian, Lade Bonuola, also received the Lifetime Award for Journalistic Excellence.
Soyinka who spoke at the venue of his new book, Booksellers in Ibadan, Oyo State, said though 2020 has been a most challenging year as a result of the vicissitudes of problems, the situation in Nigeria was compounded because no one is in charge
Soyinka said this in a statement on Saturday following a video making the round in which the Yoruba people in Lagos were asked to start sending away Igbo people in Lagos
Soyinka, in a statement on Wednesday, said Nigeria was returning to the dark days of the late General Sani Abacha regime with the response to the protesters involved in the #EndSARS.
The Presidency said this against the backdrop of the position of Soyinka that Nigeria had not been more divided than it is now under the watch of President Buhari
Nonetheless, I embrace the responsibility of calling attention to any accurate reading of this nation from whatever source, as a contraption teetering on the very edge of total collapse. We are close to extinction as a viable comity of peoples, supposedly bound together under an equitable set of protocols of co-habitation, capable of producing its own means of existence, and devoid of a culture of sectarian privilege and will to dominate.
Soyinka said this in a statement on Tuesday, a day after the Presidency described Obasanjo as the “Divider-in-Chief” of Nigeria for criticising President Muhammadu Buhari’s style of administration
For me, WS is not the unfathomable mystery that many perceive from a distance and he is not the mythological pantheon that exists in the realm of the gods in the imagination of many. He is a mentor, a role model and a thought-leader with whom I have had the rare privilege of sharing a great moment of significant historic importance in my life.