Tag: Professor Wole Soyinka
Jonathan/Amaechi: Soyinka warns on political pettiness
Okafor Ofiebor/ Port-Harcourt Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has expressed alarm at the way that the judiciary is being debased…
Soyinka Wins Anisfield-Wolf Award
The 1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Professor Wole Soyinka on Monday in America, won the Lifetime Achievement award of the…
Soyinka wants Nigeria’s security issue tackled
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has advised the Federal Government to see the security vacuum in the north as an emergency…
Lagos Set For Black Heritage Festival
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka says Lagos is fully set for this year’s Black Heritage Festival. Soyinka, who is the…
Encomiums As Soyinka Receives Awo Prize in Lagos
TOKUNBO OLAJIDE Eminent Nigerians turned out in large numbers today in Lagos for a leadership award presentation for literary icon,…
Soyinka Gets Awo Prize
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka will today be named the first recipient of the Awolowo Prize for Leadership. He will…
Soyinka Gets Awolowo Prize For Leadership
Nobel Leaureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, is the winner of the maiden edition of the Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership which…
Soyinka, Women Protest N4b Mansion
Hundreds of women Thursday took to the streets of Lagos to protest against the allocation of N4 billion for the…
Soyinka Wins Awo Leadership Prize
Professor Wole Soyinka has been named winner of the first ever Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership, instituted in honour of…
Niger state builds E-library in memory of Ekwensi
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Tuesday, described the late renowned novelist, Cyprian Ekwensi, as a “great thinker and lover…
Nigeria’s Soyinka pays tribute to Justice Eso
Professor Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s Nobel Literature laureate, has paid tribute to Justice Kayode Eso, the Nigerian judge who presided over…
Soyinka: Peace talks with Boko Haram wrong
Professor Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel literature laureate said Friday that trying to end a deadly insurgency by Islamist extremist group…
Soyinka, Tinubu advocate fresh ideas at book launch
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has launched the book entitled “Financialism:Water from an Empty Well” in Chicago, Illinois, United States…
‘Soyinka, Traditional Rulers Must Intervene In Lagos/Doctors Face-Off’
As the face-off between the Lagos State Government and the sacked doctors deepens, a group, Doctors for Human Rights in…
Soyinka Deplores Oyerinde’s Assassination
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has deplored the killing of the Principal Private Secretary to Edo State Governor, Mr Olaitan…
Subsidy Fraud: Adoke Begs Soyinka To Shelve Strike
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), has begged activists to shelve…
Group To Honour Soyinka, Others
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka and Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi are among eminent Nigerians to be honoured by Hi-Life All Stars…
Lagos Heritage Festival: Soyinka, Akran To Lead Procession
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka and the Akran of Badagry, De Wheno Aholu Menu Toyi I, will on Saturday feature…
Ojukwu: A ‘DIM’, Light Undimmed
A Tribute by Professor Wole Soyinka Having mandated me to proclaim on your behalf, and in your name, that Eastern…
Soyinka To Jonathan: Put FOI Bill To Test By Probing Yar’Adua’s Concealed Illness
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to put the Freedom of Information Act to test…
Be Yourselves, Soyinka Charges Varsity Students
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka this morning advised the youth to try to be themselves rather than trying to be…
How OGD Thugs Disrupted Town Hall Meeting
A town hall meeting organised by Professor Wole Soyinka, to deliberate on and find a solution to the impasse generated…