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.
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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.
The event, which will be held virtually for the first time, will discuss the theme: “Data, media and national development.”
To contribute to efforts to ensure the Coronavirus Disease pandemic and its impacts gets well reported, the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism has started the “COVID-19 Reality Check” project.
The Presidency has enjoined Nigerians to trust information coming from scientists and medical specialists as regard issues concerning virus diseases, instead of listening to Professors of Literary writings.
The Founder of Living Faith Church, also known as Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo; Founder of Victorious Army International Ministries, Dr. Joseph Agboli, and many others in Lagos, Ogun and Osun States held services last Sunday with the usual large crowd in attendance
Justice Ojukwu gave the order after Aminu Alilu, counsel to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, sought for an adjournment to enable him serve the defendants the amended charges
Soyinka made his position known on Monday when he spoke at a programme: “Never Again,” a conference to commemorate 50 years of the end of the Nigerian Civil War