Soyinka said Nigerians must show a Nelson Mandela-like ability to forgive the past of president-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, as an iron-fisted military ruler
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Soyinka, in an interview with the BBC on Monday, insisted that the political parties should have come up with far better options than the two leading candidates
The initiative, which held from January 19 to 30, 2015, took advocacy for investigative reporting from one media house in NIGERIA to the other
House-to-House, done in partnership with the British High Commission, is conceived as an investigative reporting desk advocacy programme
In response, Soyinka, in a piece titled: “Watch And Pray, Watch And Prey,” described Obasanjo as an expert in telling lies and a shameless man
The event will commence at 5pm, with a drama presentation of excerpts of Wole Soyinka’s: “The Beatification of Area Boy.
To worsen matters, President Jonathan appeared in a photograph with Sheriff during his visit to Chad where he had audience with President Idriss Deby this week
The Nigerian president however appeared totally at ease. What the nation witnessed in the photo-op was an affirmation of a governance principle, the revelation of a decided frame of mind – with precedents galore
Jonathan in a statement by his spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, said the globally-renowned academic, dramatist, poet and literary icon was worth felicitating with as he celebrates the attainment of another significant milestone in a long, very fulfilled and achievement-laden life
Speaking at the opening of the Port Harcourt UNESCO World Book capital, Prof Soyinka said he was shocked to see President Goodluck Jonathan embark on political jamboree in Kano, barely 24 hours after the Nyanya bomb blast that claimed 75 lives and the abduction of over 200 school girls in Borno
Chief Lekan Alabi, the Chairman of the Publicity Sub-Committee for the Olubadan Centenary Birthday, made the disclosure at a news conference on Thursday in Ibadan
The law of identity means that things are what they are, which at first doesn’t seem very illuminating, but wait; it implies also the following, that things are what they are, whether you like them or not, it implies that things are what they are whether you know them or not, it implies that things are what they are whether you agree with them or no
Stressing that nothing will be taken away by anybody whenever he or she dies, the cleric harped on the vanity of life and the need to invest positively in the lives of others while delivering a sermon on Friday at the burial of the daughter of the Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, Iyetade, who died on December 28, 2013
Reacting to the development, President Jonathan commiserated with Soyinka and his family
Anikulapo said Iyetade died while receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, the Oyo State capital
Soyinka, in a statement titled: “Shipwreck ahead,” said the alliance with Obasanjo by the APC leaders could only lead to partition for the country
According to Semenitari: “If the people will benefit from democracy, then the media must be on the side of the people and continue to act as watchdog to the government
He said as an elder, Soyinka should have got his fact right before making any public comment
Before the irretrievable point of escalation is reached, we have a duty to sound a collective alarm, even without the lessons of past violations of constitutional rights and apportionments of elected representatives of the people, and their consequences
Soyinka, whose speech was read, was joined in the protest by Lagos lawyer, Festus Keyamo; the Convener of Women Arise for Change Initiative, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin; and the entire members of Women Arise for Change Initiative in the protest