Tag: Nobel Prize

Opinion: The demystification of Professor Soyinka?

by Simon Utsu Soyinka finally unveiled himself as a disrespectful hypocrite when he said a few days back that the green card he claimed he had destroyed (on his own…

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5 things to know about Bob Dylan, 2016 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

"The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition..." The announcement made by the Swedish…

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Abimbola Adelakun: Dear Jonathanians, nobody is afraid of Jonathan

by Abimbola Adelakun Those selling the Jonathan-for-second-term project will no doubt promote the viability of their product to the highest possible limit – even if this means stretching the truth…

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Three scientists win ‘Nobel Prize for Medicine’ for discovering the brain’s internal GPS

by Kolapo Olapoju American, John O'Keefe and Norwegian couple, May-Britt and Edvard Moser, won the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday, 6 October, for discovering the brain's 'internal positioning…

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Why do people, and things, become popular? | A YNaija Investigation

by Adedayo Ademuwagun   10 years ago, a young Nigerian based in London returned to Nigeria and did a song. The song became a hit instantly, and a few years…

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INTERVIEW: Achebe was no father of African literature – Wole Soyinka has all guns blazing (and we mean, blazing!)

by Hauwa Gambo SaharaReporters sat Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka down for an interview - and results is, like some will say, epic. He speaks honestly about his late friend, Chinua…

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TICKER: And the Nobel Prize in Physics goes to…

French-American duo shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for inventing methods to observe the bizarre properties of the quantum world, research that has led to the construction of…

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Tolu Ogunlesi: Haters gon’ hate – An open letter (YNaija FrontPage)

How can you have a National Honours ceremony in which there are no medals to be given out? And then to crown it all, this year it has emerged that the…

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