Tag: Wole Soyinka
It’s a fact that there are plans for Interim Government – Wole Soyinka
by Kolapo Olapoju Prof. Wole Soyinka has stated that desperate power-hungry politicians are behind the push for an Interim National ...
Soyinka demands probe of Fayose, Obanikoro, others
by Ranti Joseph The Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, on Tuesday demanded investigation into the Ekiti rigging audio, which ...
TB Joshua named ‘Yoruba man of the decade’, Soyinka ‘Yoruba man of the year’
by Anike Jacobs A pan-Yoruba media outfit – Irohin Odua, the first Pan-Yoruba news outlet has named the Synagogue Church ...
‘Get ready for new betrayal’: Soyinka warns Nigerians in BBC interview (READ)
by Kolapo Olapoju Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, says the two leading presidential candidates, President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic ...
‘It’s not too late to lift the siege’: Wole Soyinka has a word of advise for Pres. Jonathan (READ)
by Ranti Joseph Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Saturday, urged President Goodluck Jonathan to lift the military siege on ...
With a heavy heart – this is how Soyinka endorsed Buhari
by Wole Soyinka First, let us not simplify the challenge. There are no blacks and whites. It is not a ...
Why I will not encourage anyone to vote for Jonathan- Prof. Soyinka
by Kolapo Olapoju Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has said he will not encourage anyone to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan, ...
Today’s Daily Brief: Jonathan finally visits Maiduguri, Jonathan promises to free captured territories, Saraki says Jonathan has impoverished Nigerians, and more
Cross River State Governor Liyel Imoke has called on all defected members of the Peoples Democratic Party to return to ...
I have not endorsed anybody – Soyinka sets the record straight
by Kolapo Olapoju Ahead of the February elections, Professor Wole Soyinka has denied endorsing any presidential and governorship candidate. Consequently, ...
It helps to call yourself a professor if you’re running for VP in Nigeria
by Adedayo Ademuwagun This month there was some suspense about who will be Buhari’s running mate in 2015. People ...
This is the Wole Soyinka article everyone’s talking about (READ)
by Wole Soyinka I had fully attuned myself to the fact that our Owu retiree soldier and prolific author ...
Okey Ikechukwu: What Wole Soyinka really said about Buhari
by Okey Ikechukwu Prof. Wole Soyinka’s recently advertised opinion on Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential flag ...
2015 election: A murderer who enslaved the nation – What Soyinka wrote about Buhari in 2007
by James Sambo Although former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, has been chosen as the presidential candidate of the All ...
@emmaugwutheman: The rebuke of Jonathan, the new King Nebuchadnezzar
by Emmanuel Ugwu It was certainly inevitable that President Goodluck Jonathan, who has, to all intents and purposes, abandoned restraint, would ...
Presidency fires back at Soyinka over epic biblical illustration
by Anike Jacobs The presidency has reacted to Wole Soyinka’s comparison of the Goodluck Jonathan administration and the Biblical King ...
What we learnt from Soyinka’s comparison of Goodluck Jonathan, king Nebuchadnezzar and Babylonian citizens
by Anike Jacobs You think you know your Bible well enough, ask Wole Soyinka! The Nobel Laureate and Professor gave ...
Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka diagnosed of cancer (Photo)
by Anike Jacobs Renowned playwright and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Oluwole Soyinka, has disclosed his health status. The maverick writer announced ...
Today’s Daily Brief: Soyinka wants ‘Ekiti mystery’ corrected, Wike calls Rivers monorail a death trap, Saraki will not run for president, and more
We deliver your news brief for Tuesday, October 12, 2014. The disagreement between the Minister of State for the ...
@Oluwasegunsomef: Does Professor Wole Soyinka truly exist?
by Olusegun Somefun I have heard about the existence of this old boy with a beautiful mind, Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, ...
You are entertaining Nigerians with your mastery of English language | Modu Sheriff replies Soyinka’s article
by S’ola Filani Former Governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff has issued a reply to Wole Soyinka’s ‘Wage of Impunity’ ...
Oh Goodluck Jonathan! Seven bullets Soyinka shot at GEJ in his “Wages of Impunity” article (READ)
by S’ola Filani We bet President Jonathan did not see this one coming! Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has once ...
Book party alert! CORA hosts longlisted authors for 2014 NLNG Prize for Literature
by Kolapo Olapoju The Committee For Relevant Art (CORA), will be hosting its sixth annual Book Party for the authors ...
I almost killed myself with my father’s gun at 10 – Soyinka
by S’ola Filani If Wole Soyinka had succeeded in pulling the trigger in his father’s dane gun years ago, his ...
Opinion: 80 canon salutes to Soyinka, African god of literature
by Olatunji Ariyomo While Wole Soyinka’s predilection as signposted by these experiences is about integrity, what is right, what is ...
Opinion: Wole Soyinka – The man lived
by Soyombo Opeyemi His critics believe that language and power cannot be placed on the same pedestal. The former ...
This was Wole Soyinka decades before he became a Nobel Laureate (LOOK)
by Akan Ido Renowned Nigerian playwright, dramatist, poet, author and essayist, Prof. Wole Soyinka, is eighty years old today. Soyinka ...
Dele Momodu: As Wole Soyinka clocks 80 tomorrow
by Wole Soyinka I would eventually meet this man who had become a deity to many of his devotees like ...
Boko Haram has united Nigerians even more – Soyinka
by S’ola Filani Despite the great carnage Nigeria has suffered at the hands of the radical Islamist group Boko ...
Wole Soyinka & Gov. Aregbesola engage in a little game called ‘selfie’ (LOOK)
by Zara Mustapha Although we can’t exactly tell what Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka and Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola ...
Perry Brimah: And now, the ecumenical city of Jos?! (A rejoinder)
by Perry Brimah No mortal is above error and criticism. May the good Lord permit me to grow as old ...
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