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Nigeria Likely To Disintegrate If.. – Soyinka

Nigeria Likely To Disintegrate If.. – Soyinka

June 16, 2021 2:42 am

Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has expressed deep concerns about what may befall Nigeria if the country’s leadership fails to act fast.

He pointed out that Nigeria could disintegrate if urgent steps were not taken by the government to address the vexatious issue of devolution of powers to the federating units which is being clamoured for in several quarters at the moment.

Soyinka made this revelation yesterday in an interview on Aise Television which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York.

‘If Nigeria fails to decentralize, as fast as possible, manifestly and without the rhetoric, then Nigeria …

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Soyinka Attacks Balarabe Over Comment On Oduduwa Republic

January 21, 2020 2:25 pm
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka on Tuesday condemned remark by Balarabe Musa, former governor of Old Kaduna State on the establishment of Amotekun by Southwest governors.

Musa had over the weekend alleged that Southwest establishment of Amotekun was a ploy by Yorubas to create Oduduwa Republic.

However, Soyinka said Musa was wrong about his assertion on the reason Amotekun was established by the Southwest region.

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In a statement, the Nobel Laureate said: “Balarabe is sadly, but I hope not tragically wrong. I invoke the tragic dimension here because the making

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Following Protest, Soyinka Centre Postpone Osinbajo’s Award

December 9, 2019 12:12 pm

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has postponed the planned presentation of an award to the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo after the news generated protests on social media. Osinbajo was slated to be presented with an Integrity award as part of the 2019 Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting scheduled to hold on Monday, December 9 in Lagos.

Executive Director/CEO of the Centre, Motunrayo Alaka, in a statement on Monday announcing the postponement, said the “Vice President himself shares this awareness and the inappropriateness of the award at this point.”

She explained that the postponement was in response …

Soyinka: Disobedience To Court Order Is Thuggery

December 5, 2019 7:19 am

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has excoriated the Buhari administration for its serial disobedience to court orders, which he likened to thuggery.

Soyinka, in a statement obtained by THISDAY wednesday, also lampooned the Department of State Services (DSS) for its continued refusal to release rights activist and Coordinator of #RevolutionNow, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, despite being granted bail by the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja.

He dismissed as “childish pretext” the excuses DSS had been proffering to keep Sowore in detention.
The laureate said he could not keep quiet and watch the degradation of the judiciary in which he had …

Wole Soyinka Battled With Prostate Cancer

November 26, 2019 3:18 pm

Nobel laureate and renowned dramatist, Wole Soyinka has revealed that he was diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer in 2014. Speaking to BBC, Soyinka revealed that he used an advanced technology, ‘proton therapy’ to treat it.

According to the 85-year-old, the treatment was an ‘easy ride although uncomfortable. He said “It hadn’t yet gotten to the stage where it was non-reversible and so (the doctor) gave us a number of guidelines. I say us because he wanted to make sure that my wife made sure that I followed it. He sensed that I wasn’t going to be a very good patient. …

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Don’t Join The Rank Of Killers, Soyinka Cautions Lawmakers

November 17, 2019 3:23 am
  • As CLASFON kicks against attempts by FG to muzzle free speech

Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has advised lawmakers not to join the rank of killers with their plan to pass the Hate Speech Bill into law.

Soyinka, in a statement he issued on Friday tittled ‘Is it now cool to kill? – An anguished letter to Nigerian lawmakers,’ advised the legislators to reconsider their position even as he reminded them that they might be victims of the law in the future.

Also yesterday the Christian Lawyers Fellowship of Nigeria (CLASFON) called on the kicked against any attempt by …

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DSS, Judiciary Ridiculing Nigeria, Says Soyinka

November 14, 2019 1:03 pm

•Tasks CSOs on concerted efforts against rights abuses
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, yesterday called on the Department of State Services (DSS) and the judiciary to apologise to Nigeria, lamenting that the nation was being ridiculed before the world on account of the actions of the duo.

In a statement entitled, “Sowore, Human Rights and the Rule of Law,” the poet called on civil society organisations (CSOs) to coordinate their responses to alleged rights abuses by state agents.

He claimed that government officials were on a mission to enthrone a “pattern of conduct that openly scoffs at the role of …

Soyinka Warns Miyetti Allah Against Threat To Govs

Soyinka Warns Miyetti Allah Against Threat To Govs

November 6, 2019 3:18 am

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, yesterday warned the National President of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Alhaji Abdullahi Bodejo, over his constant threat on governors to carve a large portion of lands in their states for cattle colonies for nomadic herdsmen activities if they want to live in peace in the country.

Soyinka told journalists shortly after he paid a courtesy visit on Governor Samuel Ortom at Government House that each governor has the protection of the Nigerian constitution to take his own decisions and enforce them accordingly in the best interest of the state.

He described the grazing …

Soyinka, others protest as DSS moves Sowore to Abuja

Soyinka, others protest as DSS moves Sowore to Abuja

August 5, 2019 7:06 am
The condemnation of the arrest of Omoyele Sowore continued yesterday with the Noble laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, lamenting that the country had been thrown into a cycle of suppression of citizens’ rights.

The police, at the weekend, accused Sowore, the convener of #RevolutionNow protests and the Global Coalition for Security and Democracy in Nigeria of trying to force a regime change in the country. They alleged that the move by the pro-democracy activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the last general elections amounted to treasonable felony and an act of terrorism. Consequently, Sowore was arrested

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Defend your ancestral lands, Soyinka, Ooni advise Nigerians

Defend your ancestral lands, Soyinka, Ooni advise Nigerians

July 8, 2019 12:14 am

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 …

Defend your ancestral lands, Soyinka, Ooni advise Nigerians

Wole Soyinka: Ruga can set Nigeria on fire

July 3, 2019 12:18 am

Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka yesterday joined the raging cattle settlements dispute, describing the policy as a keg of gunpowder.

The planned Ruga (settlements) is the Federal Government’s antidote to the bloody herders/farmers clashes, which have taken many lives, setting Nigeria on edge.

Even before its execution, the policy has sparked a huge row, with some states, including those that are not earmarked for the project, rejecting it.

The Rivers State Government, the local chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau State and the Berom community yesterday joined the rising rank of those rejecting the policy.

The Plateau …

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