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Soyinka guns for Oxford poetry professor post
Professor Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s Nobel laureate leads a three-horse race for the position of Oxford professor of poetry, a 300-year-old…
I Didn’t Attack Igbo —Soyinka
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has denied comments attributed to him concerning the voting pattern of the Igbo in the 28…
Wole Soyinka: Learning From Yesterday
The Nigerian variation on any universal practice is guaranteed to develop a character of its own, quite unique, but of…
Buhari’s govt, most brutal dictatorship after Abacha – Soyinka
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has described General Muhammadu Buhari, the main opposition presidential candidate in Nigeria as the most…
Soyinka Blasts Fraudulent Election Campaigners
Daniels Ekugo Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has lashed out at fraudulent election campaigners purporting that he issued a statement…
Chibok Girls: OBJ, Soyinka, Kolade Back Campaigners
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, former President Olusegun Obasanjo and respected boardroom guru and diplomat, Ambassador Christoper Kolade,…
Soyinka Slams Jonathan’s Support Group Over Fabrication
Eromosele Ebhomele Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has slammed the Goodluck Support Network, one of the groups championing the re-election…
Soyinka: The Wages Of Impunity in Nigeria
By Wole Soyinka The dancing obscenity of Shekau and his gang of psychopaths and child abductors, taunting the world, mocking the…
Soyinka Lied: Rust Isn’t Ripeness
By Nduka Uzuakpundu In a lucent case of a stubbornly opaque, intentional fallacy, Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, still talks…
How I Almost Killed Myself —Soyinka
Jamiu Yisa Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has revealed how he almost killed himself with a gun out of curiosity at…
Exclusive: Wole Soyinka reflects on his life at 80
Professor Wole Soyinka gives a broader view of his life at 80 in a scintillating interview with the TheNEWS. It’s…
Wole Soyinka Prize: Akin Bello Wins Grand Prize
A former Chairman of the Oyo State chapter of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Akin Bello has been named…
Soyinka: ‘I reject my share of national insult’
The full statement of Professor Wole Soyinka’s rejection of Nigeria’s centenary award The Canonisation of Terror The sheer weight of…
Soyinka: Why I rejected the Centenary award
Professor Wole Soyinka, the Nobel laureate, said he rejected Nigeria’s centenary award bestowed on him because of the inclusion on…
Aregbesola unveils world’s tallest drum
The Centre for Black Culture and International Understandings based in osogbo, capital of the western Nigerian state of Osun has…
Jonathan, Amosun condole Soyinka over death of daughter
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta President Goodluck Jonathan has sent a message of condolence to Professor Wole Soyinka and other members of…
No, Obasanjo Should Not Be Your Navigator —Soyinka
Professor Wole Soyinka,has reacted to a statement credited to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu that APC would like General Obasanjo…
Children Celebrate An Icon
Students, friends and family honour Professor J.P. Clark on his 80th birthday That Professor J.P. Clark is unarguably one of…
Anatomy Of The Osun Education Reforms
Critics are finally admitting that the school reforms system of the Aregbesola administration has potential for enormous benefits Over the…
Justice Ayo Salami: Tributes To His Integrity
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Stakeholders in the judiciary and the legal practice as well as politicians from across political parties…
Soyinka, others mourn Awoonor
Nigerian Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka and other writers on Friday paid tribute to renowned Ghanaian poet and statesman Kofi…
Of Theater And Our Duke Of Errors
By Segun Ojewuyi This week the department of Theater at the University of Ibadan celebrates 50 years of Theater in…
Celebrating D.O. Fagunwa’s Enduring Legacy
Fifty years after the passing of Yoruba fantasy author, Daniel Olorunfemi Fagunwa, his home-state Ondo, played host to many eminent…
Jonathan’s PDP faction slams visits to Gov. Amaechi
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt A faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, has described protesters hauling stones at…
Soyinka to Nigerian students: ‘don’t be discouraged’
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has urged Nigerian students, especially those residing in violence-prone areas of the…
Fashola, Grey Hair And The Burden Of Governance
By Tayo Ogunbiyi The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), is different things to different people. Professor Wole…
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Soyinka’s Ake to be turned into a movie
NKRUMAH BANKONG-OBI Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka’s childhood memoir, Ake, The Years of Childhood is to be adapted into a…
Soyinka slams those who diminish Chinua Achebe
Professor Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate, in an interview with Sahara Reporters, speaks on his relationship with compatriot, Chinua Achebe and…
Sowore Vs Doyin Okupe On Al Jazeera TV
By Joe Igbokwe The other day I watched Al Jazeera Television where Omoyele Sowore, of Sahara Reporters, our own Professor…
Soyinka: Cool It, President Jonathan
Nigeria’s Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka today issued a press statement, advising President Goodluck Jonathan on the handling of state…