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    Politics Reno Omokri to Soyinka - You're the Chief Poke Noser

    Former Presidential aide, Reno Omokri has lashed out at Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka for complaining over media harassment. READ: Wole Soyinka Upset, Threatens To Leave Nigeria In a Facebook post, Omokri said Soyinka ''is the chief poke noser into the affairs of other public figures '' See...
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    Politics Wole Soyinka Upset, Threatens To Leave Nigeria

    Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has threatened to exit Nigeria as a response to the media harassment to which Nigerians have subjected him. Mr. Soyinka, while speaking to reporters today at a media event held at Freedom Park on Lagos Island said he was embarrassed to share a country with some...
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    Politics Green Card Issue: Nigerians Like to Poke-Nose - Wole Soyinka

    Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has berated Nigerians for condemning him over his threat to destroy his green card. He said he was puzzled that Nigerians could poke-nosed into his private affairs and the exercise of his rights to freedom of speech. “I really I am puzzled. I don’t know...
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    Politics Soyinka Promises To Hold Private Funeral On Trump's Inauguration Day

    Nigeria's Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, says he will hold a private funeral on January 20 when United States President-elect, Donald Trump, is inaugurated as President. Soyinka, who spoke in Lagos on Monday, explained that the funeral is not to mourn with the citizens of the US over...
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    Politics Nigeria's Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka Fulfils Promise, Destroys Green Card

    Nigerian Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka said he has fulfilled his pledge to throw away his US residency green card and leave the country if Donald Trump won the presidential election. Prof. Soyinka told AFP on the sidelines of an education conference at the University of Johannesburg...
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    Entertainment Femi Kuti - Why Does Soyinka Have a Green Card When Africa is So Beautiful?

    Afrobeat singer, Femi Kuti has joined his voice to the controversy surrounding Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka's green card. Speaking with THE NET, Kuti said, “He should quickly tear it. “My question is why does he have a green card in the first place?. Africa is so beautiful, look at our...
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    Politics Soyinka Should Honorably Cut His Green Card and Return to Nigeria- Prof. David-West

    Professor Tam David-West has dared Nigerian nobel laureate to fulfill his promise and cut his American green card. Describing Soyinka as a great and honourable man, he said should he fail to follow through on his very public threat and return to Nigeria, he would prove to be dishonourable...
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    Metro WOLEXIT: Soyinka's Full Statement About Tearing His Green Card

    Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, has released a statement about his intention to boycott America following the emergence of Donald Trump as the country's president-elect. Here's his statement: I shall begin on a morbid note. One of the horror stories that emerged from the Daesh (Isis) controlled...
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    Metro Trump's Victory: Wole Soyinka Blasts Nigerians Asking Him to Tear His Green Card

    Nigerian nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has come against Nigerians ridiculing him and urging him to tear his green card as he'd earlier promised. Soyinka had stated that he'd tear his green card if Donald Trump emerged victorious in the US presidential elections. In a statement he released on...
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    Politics Soyinka Risks 7 Years Jail Term In US Over Green Card Issue

    Nigerian Nobel Literature Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, is at risk of three to seven years in jail over his threat to destroy his American Green Card in protest of Donald Trump’s victory at the U.S. Presidential election. A legal luminary, Mr Kayode Ajulo cautioned the Nobel Laureate on...
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    Politics Prof. Wole Soyinka On His Way Back Home? [PHOTO]

    Professor Wole Soyinka may be on his way to Nigeria after Donald Trump's victory in the US Presidential election. Nigerians have asked the revered scholar to do as he has said and return to the country to show that he is a man of integrity, and a Facebook user simply identified as Prince...
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    Politics Wole Soyinka's Reaction to Donald Trump's Election Victory

    Here's an interview of Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, in reaction to Donald Trump's presidential election victory. Did Donald Trump's victory surprise you? Not altogether. The possibility was looming nearer and nearer, getting scarier and scarier. What do you think Trump's victory...
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    Politics US Election: I Will Tear my Green Card on January 20- Wole Soyinka

    Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has stated that he would fulfill his promise to tear his green card. During the buildup to the US presidential election, Soyinka had promised to tear his green card if Donald Trump won. On Wednesday, Donald Trump was announced America's President-elect...
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    World Soyinka Subs Bob Dylan - I Want to Be Nominated For a Grammy

    Wole Soyinka, the 1986 winner of the Nobel laureate Prize for literature is not happy about this year's winner, Bob Dylan. Asked about Bob Dylan’s unexpected crowning as winner of this year’s Nobel laureate, during an Oxford seminar, Soyinka said, “Since I’ve written quite a number of songs...
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    World Soyinka - I'll Tear Up My Green Card If Trump Wins US Elections

    Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel laureate in literature has threatened to tear up his Green card if Republican Presidential candidate, Donald Trump wins the US election. Giving a seminar to students at Oxford University, GUARDIAN UK reports that Soyinka who now lives the United States...
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    Metro Soyinka Attacks Religious Leaders in Northern Nigeria

    Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, has accused northern religious leaders of injecting toxins into their followers, resulting in brutal murders of others of different faith, as witnessed in Zamfara recently. According to him religious violence will continue in Nigeria until preachers of religious...
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    Metro Wole Soyinka Reacts To Being Named in Niger Delta Negotiation Team

    Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has reacted to reports that he is included in the Niger Delta negotiation team with the federal government. He said that some Niger Delta militant groups had reached out to him in their efforts at interfacing with the government on the current militancy in...
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    Metro Soyinka To Lead Avengers’ Dialogue Group

    Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, may play a key role in resolving the current conflict between the Federal Government and the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), the militant group which has claimed responsibility for the renewed militancy and bombing of oil and gas facilities in the Niger Delta...
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    Politics Soyinka: What I Discussed With President Buhari

    Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Thursday said he came to see President Muhammadu Buhari on national and international matters. Soyinka said this when he surprisingly saw State House correspondents who were already laying ambush for him in front of the Press Gallery. “I didn’t come to...
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    Politics PHOTOS: Buhari, Soyinka At The Statehouse Today

    President Muhammadu Buhari recieved Professor Wole Soyinka at the Statehouse today. Details of the meeting not yet known... See photos: Related: Buhari, Wole Soyinka in Closed Door Meeting at Aso Rock
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