The event, which will be held virtually for the first time, will discuss the theme: “Data, media and national development.”
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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
Soyinka, who reviewed the book at its public presentation at the Terra Kulture Arena in Lagos on Thursday, described the book as a “Memoir of a Ghetto Blaster”, adding that the book remains a big insight on profiling the psychology of corporate Nigeria.
In the charges, the Nigerian Government, which is detaining Sowore at the facility of the Department of State Services, accused him of treasonable felony and money laundering
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has again cautioned Nigerians not to believe everything they read on the social media but rather take such online publications “with a pinch of salt”.
If President Muhammadu Buhari is blindsided by the fact that he is a lame duck president presiding over a failed state, he should understand that the revolution that would end Fulani’s generational oppression, tyranny, misrule, incompetency, despotism and autocracy is here. He should prepare his second tenure for more democratic street fights
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka Soyinka, has called for declaration of state of emergency due to the security challenges in the South West Zone.
The Presidency said this on Sunday in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu
In a statement on Sunday, Soyinka said the arrest was “a travesty and violation of the fundamental rights of citizens to protest….”
Soyinka said this in his residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State when he hosted 85 pupils drawn from all the six geopolitical zones of the country to mark his 85th birthday.
President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on his 85th birthday on July 13.
In a communiqué they issued at the end of a meeting at the weekend, the duo counselled the government on ensuring co-existence amongst Nigerians
Soyinka made the call on the sidelines the Wreath Laying Ceremony to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the death of Chief MKO Abiola, organised by Women Arise for Change Initiative at the late politician’s graveside in Ikeja.
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says closure over the death of Chief MKO Abiola will be achieved when some of the challenges faced in the country are confronted and eliminated.
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has faulted the Ruga policy of the Federal Government, saying it has the capacity to set Nigeria on fire.
Soyinka said this in a statement he issued on Saturday over an incident that involved him and a young man who insisted on taking his rightful seat on a flight after the Nobel Laureate sat on it in error