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President Muhammadu Buhari and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, are currently meeting inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting is holding behind closed doors inside the President’s office. The agenda of the meeting described as a private one was not made public.

Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has stated that anyone found guilty by the current anti corruption war should be jailed. “There is only one way for corrupt people; it ends in the prison. It ends in Ibara or Oba (prisons in Abeokuta) or Kirikiri(Lagos prison)," he said. “Yes, it’s...

Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has called for a decentralization of the Nigerian government. According to him, the over centralisation of the Nigerian government had resulted in resentment among constituent states. He said the policy is insulting and that it promotes anti-healthy...

It is time to call a spade a spade or, in this instance, name the Nigerian media camera a weapon of mass obstruction. What used to be mere occasional infraction, soon corrected, is fast becoming a Bill of Rights – for a minuscule sector of the professional community. We are galloping towards an...

Nigerian Poet, and Nobel laureate has voiced out on claims that he appraised the one year administration of President Mohammadu Buhari. In a statement titled, Inmates for the Republic of Liars, Soyinka describes the message as a “disgusting forgery. “The following attribution is a disgusting...

Nigerian Poet, and Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has said it would take time for President Muhammadu Buhari to heal the injuries inflicted on Nigeria by former president, Goodluck Jonathan. According to Soyinka, the immediate past government left a “heavy baggage” and “burden” that may take...

Currently at the National Assembly Complex, the Senate committees on Agriculture and Intelligence and National Security are holding a public hearing on the attacks by herdsmen in the country. The hearing is meant to be a day’s event, according to PUNCH report. Recent brutal attacks by herdsmen...

Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has sent out a strong words to President Muhammadu Buhari by lashing out for his seeming inability to rein in the violent activities of herdsmen across the country. In his address to the National Conference on Culture and Tourism, Wednesday, Mr. Soyinka said the...

Nigeria's Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, has launched a verbal attack on Rivers state governor Nyesom Wike for accusing him of corruption. The duo have been enmeshed in a war of words which is fought regularly on the pages of newspapers. Wike had accused Amaechi of stealing N82...

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, Wednesday night went personal against the Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, calling him a ‘tout’, New Telegraph report. Soyinka was reacting to what he described as Fayose’s attack on judges shortly before his swearing-in as the governor of the state...