Prof. Wole Soyinka

Soyinka Describes Owo Massacre As Message To South-West

June 11, 2022 6:15 pm

Popular Nobel Laureate, renowned playwright and social critic, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, where many worshippers were killed, as vendetta killing which was meant to send a message to the entire people of South-West.

Soyinka made his view known on Friday while paying a condolence visit to Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu over the terror attack last Sunday.

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He described the attack as a message and said it was targeted at the governor who has been showing leadership in terms of …

Yoruba Nation: Soyinka Visits Igboho In Cotonou

May 3, 2022 1:21 am

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, yesterday, travelled to Cotonou, Benin Republic, to visit Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho where he held a meeting with the activist.

He was sighted at the Seme border around noon crossing to Cotonou, the capital city of Benin Republic, where he was ‘mobbed’ by a crowd while waiting to complete immigration formalities.

He was repeatedly quizzed by journalists where he was headed. His response was that he was on a visit to the Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Igboho to ‘break the Muslim fast with him.’

Reminded that neither he …

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NBC Code: FG Has Declared War Against Arts, Producers – Soyinka

July 7, 2020 3:50 pm

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka on Tuesday said it is time the Federal Government come out openly and admit that it has declared war against the Arts and its producers with the new Nigerian Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Regulatory Code.

Soyinka, in a statement said FG must come out openly, instead of its present tactics of piecemeal attrition.

According to him, the NBC Regulatory Code “is economic sabotage writ large, directed against thousands of practitioners. Regulatory? This is strangulatory in effect!”

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He said Just when “we were reeling from the

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Buhari Is Not Fit To Lick Soyinka’s Shoes – Fani-Kayode

April 2, 2020 12:34 pm

Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has lashed out at President Muhammadu Buhari for attacking Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka over his comment that the president’s declaration of total lockdown in Lagos and Ogun was illegal.

The presidency, in a statement issued by Garba Shehu, had said “Professor Soyinka is not a medical professor. His qualifications are in English literature, and his prizes are for writing books and plays for theatres. He is of course entitled to his opinions – but that is exactly all they are: semantics, not science. They cannot – and should not – therefore be judged as professional expertise

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