Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Friday commended President Muhammadu Buhari over the Lagos-Ibadan Standard Gauge rail project.
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This was made known in the early hours of Friday in a statement personally signed by Soyinka
Following serious concerns expressed by eminent Nigerians, including Prof. Wole Soyinka, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili and Rt, Hon. Ghali Umar Naaba among others on the need to produce a consensus candidate from among the fresh breed ‘Third Force’ presidential hopefuls
The consensus presidential candidate of the Third Force will be jointly decided by some prominent Nigerians.
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has restated his position that he would not vote for the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party in the upcoming presidential election, describing the two parties as same side of a coin.
Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nigerian playwright and Nobel laureate, has warned that fake news concocted by a Nigerian may trigger a Third World War.
Dr Kasim Umaru, the Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Abuja chapter, says the union has no regret for disrupting Anti-Corruption event in the institution.
The News Agency of Nigeria said this at a reception hosted by Lagos State Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture for the Brazilian cultural delegation visiting the South West states.
The Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, is to award honorary doctorate degree to Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, as it graduates 113 first class students on Thursday.
Folashade Ambrose-Medebem, the Director of Communications, Public Affairs and Sustainable Development of Lafarge, made the disclosure on Tuesday in Lagos.
Nigeria’s Temi Soyinka has emerged winner of the 5th annual ceremony of the prestigious Miss Nigeria UK cultural beauty pageant.
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Soyinka said this in reaction to the position of President Buhari that the Rule of Law must be subject to the nation’s security and national interest.
Dr Sani Aliyu, the Director General, NACA, made the fact known at the public screening of Prof. Wole Soyinka’s “Keep the Promise’’ to AIDS Video Campaign, organised by AIDS Health Care Foundation.
Prof. Wole Soyinka has charged the Federal Government to take seriously its obligation to eliminate HIV and AIDs in Nigeria by taking full ownership of funding and treatment rather than relying on foreign donor support.
He said Obasanjo knows him so well that he does not make accusations lightly and that he despises snide insinuations
Soyinka, who spoke at the launch of his latest interventions series, Interventions VIII, titled: “Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?: Gani’s Unfinished Business,” said he maintains the same position on all those who defected from the APC to the PDP
Speaking at the unveiling of the theatre, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Idowu Olayinka, said the event marked a major landmark in the history of the university
Ibrahim Gambari, former Minister for External Affairs and erstwhile United Nations Under-Secretary General, has called for an end to what he called “the audacity of hypocrisy” of the Nigerian ruling class.
The move was announced by the CEO of EbonyLife Television, Mo Abudu on her Instagram page @moabudu.