The 2018 IPI congress will hold in June at the International Conference Centre, Abuja. About 350 journalists from across the world are expected at the congress, which is being hosted in Nigeria for the first time.
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The News Agency of Nigeria reports that festival, slated for July 30 – August 3, would feature an exhibition of prepared indigenous dishes from different parts of Nigeria and from across Africa.
This information was contained in a statement by Mallam Naseer Kura on behalf of the Summit Organising Committee on Sunday in Abuja.
His position was contained in his address titled: “Nomads and Nation: Valentine card or valedictory rites.”
This was just as Obiageli Ezekwesili, a former Minister of Education; Edetaen Ojo, the Executive Director, Media Rights Agenda; as well as nine other outstanding journalists were honoured.
The play, which is set in ancient Oyo town, describes Nigeria during the Second World War when Nigeria was still a British colony where after the King’s death, the king’s horseman commences the traditional ritual that will ensure the smooth transition of the dead king to the world beyond as the British colonial officer intervenes.
The annual lecture will this year mark Wole Soyinka’s 83rd birthday
Meanwhile, I have also realised that the only person that could be sure of not going to be detained either in cell, house-arrest or prison must surely be the dead person in the grave
Kola-Ogunlade said: “Google search in the just concluded week from November 9 to 16, was filled with intrigues from internet users.
“People went online to learn more about Donald Trump, the newly-elected president of U.S., and Wole Soyinka’s response to the news of his winning the presidential election was also a burning issue
If in the unlikely event he does win, the first thing he’ll do is to say [that] all green-card holders must reapply to come back into the US
Lari Williams, a Nollywood actor, said the winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, had been one of Africa’s greatest writers, following his numerous works that gained global recognition.
Professor Soyinka contended that the issue of hijab was never raised “for several decades” after independence and assumed that the Christian uniform is the conventional or, in his own words ‘common dress code’. We beg to disagree sir. We assert that the revered Nobel Laureate is not only taking too much for granted but also taking liberty for license
According to a statement released by its General Secretary, Alhaji Wasiu Hassan, the group described members of Eko Foundation as rabble-rousers and noise makers seeking cheap publicity and attention for relevance
“The economic condition of a nation, of a people does not deteriorate overnight. Something came before that deterioration,” he said, while answering a question on the current state of the nation’s economy
The playwright confessed that he used to have a bad impression of Buhari who he once described as a “devil for whom in my calculation, no spoon existed long enough to justify the risk even of an impromptu snack”
The shortlist includes Fisayo Soyombo of The Cable, Adekunle Yusuf of The Nation, Chukwuemeka Emenike of The New Telegraph, Sumner Sambo of Television Continental, Motunrayo Joel and Adedayo Odusanya of The Punch, Ikechukwu Ibe of The Daily Trust, Emmanuel Ogala and Bassey Udo of Premium Times, Ayodele Ojo of The Sun, Asukwo Bassey of Business Day and Kikelomo Abosede Ifekoya of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria
Soyinka was also alleged to have said he would continue to stand by Tinubu no matter what.
The alleged tribute read in part: “I do not admire Tinubu because he is a saint. I do not admire Tinubu because he is from the South. I do not admire Tinubu because he is a Yoruba. If I want saints, I will proceed to heaven, not on earth. Every human is fallible. I admire Tinubu because he saved Nigeria from the danger of falling into a one-party state
The Nobel Laureate described the school as an emphatic rejection of what Boko Haram insurgents preach.
Soyinka described the situation in which the country till date could not account for the missing Chibok girls as shame
Although Soyinka conceded that he used to be friendly with Obasanjo and admitted in the book that some stakeholders were making efforts to reconcile them, he said he owed it a responsibility to fundamentally respond to lies that Obasanjo allegedly told against him in his latest biography, titled, My Watch, described in InterInterventions as Three-Carat Watch
Aregbesola called on people of goodwill in Nigeria and beyond to prevail on the highly revered Soyinka not to go ahead with his decision to resign