
Defend your ancestral lands, Soyinka, Ooni advise Nigerians
Nigeria cannot survive another civil war, Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka and frontline monarch Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, have warned.
They called on the authorities to arrest what they see as the prevailing drift into “a dysfunctional state on multiple levels of citizenship, community belonging, security and productive opportunities”.
In a communiqué they issued at the end of a meeting at the weekend, the duo counselled the government on ensuring co-existence amongst Nigerians.
The communique was issued after a visit by the royal father to Soyinka in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
They said that solutions must be …