Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Sunday expressed satisfaction with the level of ongoing work on the newly refurbished Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and the Creative Arts, Iganmu, in Lagos. He said the Centre, formally known as…
…Criticise use of live bullets on protesters …SERAP calls for protection of media freedom By Ismail Azeez Outrage and condemnation have trailed the brutal crackdown on protesters and journalists by the Nigerian Police Force, with Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and…
By Matthew Denis Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has expressed disappointment over the quality of the nationwide address by President Bola Tinubu on Sunday, saying it failed to address the attacks on #EndBadGovernance protesters by security agencies. Soyinka who is…
Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has named the 12.5 kilometres Kemta-Idi Aba-Somorin road in Abeokuta, after the Noble Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka. Governor Abiodun, who spoke at a reception organized by the state government to celebrate the 90th birthday…
Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has warned that embattled former Minister Dr. Olu Agunloye may suffer the same fate of death as Late Chief Bola Ige. Dr. Olu Agunloye has been remanded in Kuje Prison by the court over the…
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, said he warned the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi on excesses of the his supporters, otherwise known as ‘Obidients.’ Soyinka, stated this in a statement titled, “Media responsibility,’’ on Tuesday. Meanwhile,…
…Their generation should quit Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said his counsel to both the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar and the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, respectively,…
Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has condemned a recent comment by the Labour Party vice presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed. Datti had, during an interview with Channels Television, said swearing in the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on May 29 may be the…
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka on Monday said Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho is not a criminal and should not be haunted by the Federal Government. He said rather, government should apologise to him for…
Bankole Taiwo, Abeokuta Dr. Olaokun Soyinka, one of the children of the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has described as baseless and outright falsehood the reports of invasion of his father’s residence at Abeokuta by some herdsmen with their cows…
