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Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and a former Nigerian lawmaker Shehu Sani are at the Abuja High Court at the resumed trial of Sahara Reporters publisher Omoyele Sowore on Wednesday. Also in court is the former Chairman of the National Human Rights … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News –...

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, was in a buoyant mood, the other day, when he nodded at the birth of the security outfit called Operation Amotekun, which was launched, in Ibadan, January 9, 2020, by the six governors of the South-West geo-political zone. He described … Read more via...

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) on Tuesday apologised to Nigerians and has accepted that the Vice President was right. The Centre said the Vice President pulled out of the award for reasons which he subsequently cited in a press statement on Monday.... Read more...

The Office of the Vice President has made public the letter which Vice President Yemi Osinbajo wrote to the organisers of Anti-corruption Defender Award of 2019. The letter made available to newsmen on Monday in Abuja indicated that the vice president had given two reasons why he would not be...

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has warned the Department of State Services, DSS, to stop the charade and display of crude and naked power by releasing the Convener, #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore still being kept in their custody despite meeting his … Read more via P.M. News –...

The warrior is noble and strong. His resolve is firm and his commitment is total. His is to kill, to shed blood and to be killed. His is to die for his King and for a worthy cause. His is to protect and lay down … Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2m2k6yM Get More Nigeria...

The Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka Saturday condemned the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to file charges of treason and money laundering against the Convener of Coalition for Revolution, Mr. Omoyele Sowore. Soyinka, Africa’s foremost playwright, poet and … Read...

Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has described the charges against Omoyele Sowore as a confirmation of the Buhari-led administration’s unprecedented level of paranoia. Revealing that he first dismissed the report as fake news, Soyinka added that ‘Sowore’s Issue’ has moved beyond harassment...

Prof. Wole Soyinka has alleged that the Buhari-led administration is using security agencies to silence Nigerians. The Nobel Laureate made this claim at the unveiling of an art gallery in commemoration of his 85th birthday. Insisting that such move only shows that the government is afraid...

The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has asked Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, Femi Falana (SAN) and other Nigerians who condemned the arrest of leader of ‘RevolutionNow’, Omoyele Sowore to retrace their steps. In a statement on Monday by its chairman, Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary...

Nbek Laureate Wole Soyinka has described the arrest of Omoyele Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), as a replay of the style deployed by Sani Abacha, late dictator. Sowore, who has been spearheading calls for a “protest against bad governance”, was arrested by...

President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on his 85th birthday, today. Buhari, in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, in Abuja, yesterday, rejoiced with the literary icon … via The Guardian Nigeria News –...

Some eminent Nigerians, including Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka, have urged the Federal Government to go the extra mile in tackling the myriad of challenges facing the country so that what the death of Chief Moshood Abiola represents will not be in vain...... Read more via The Guardian...

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, have called on Nigerians across state demarcations to defend the sanctity of their ancestral lands against usage for Ruga cattle settlements..... Read more via “nigeria” – Google News – https://ift.tt/2YGtZ32 Get...

NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has berated the Federal Government for attacking former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the latter’s comments that Boko Haram insurgency and herdsmen crisis had become an agenda to ‘Fulanise’ West Africa and ‘Islamise’ Africa.... Read more via...

SaharaReporters understands that these talks, which began on Sunday and continued till Tuesday, received big inputs from Obasanjo, Sanusi and the international community, notably the European Union (EU). Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, was also credited with some … Read more via...

Wole Soyinka, literary scholar, made reference to the leaked tapes purportedly from Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, while speaking on fake news on Wednesday. Soyinka, who was a panelist at a conference on fake news organised by the BBC, said the minister did not insult President...

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has again tackled former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his endorsement of Atiku Abubakar, his former deputy and now presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after painting him as villain for a long time. Soyinka, who spoke alongside key...

Soyinka and Obasanjo Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has attacked former President ... Read more via P.M. News – http://bit.ly/2Fi1Ppe Get More Nigeria Metro News

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