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General Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories, Wole Soyinka
Tuesday, December 8th, 2015
• Agitation in South-East not surprising By Doris Obinna Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, yesterday spoke frankly on the agitation in the South East and declared that Biafra cannot be defeated. Soyinka added that the agitation did not come to him as a surprise. He also defended his choice of President Muhammadu Buhari as a […]
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2015
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka | credits: File copy Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, said that former President Goodluck Jonathan was becoming authoritarian while in office. Soyinka also said that the pioneer Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu admitted to him in the UK that he (Ribadu) realised late that […]
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Governors, Latest Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Wole Soyinka
Friday, May 15th, 2015
Tinubu, Soyinka The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Thursday in Lagos said the 2013 Nigeria Governors’ Forum crisis paved the way for the end of the 16-year rule of the Peoples Democratic Party. They made the observation during the public presentation of ‘Dynamics […]
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Latest Politics, Wole Soyinka
Friday, March 20th, 2015
Prof. Wole Soyinka Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has raised the alarm that “illegal, sinister and power-grabbers” are bent on scuttling the country’s current democratic process. The power-grabbers, according to him, are the ones pushing for the imposition of interim government on the country. He said during an interview with SaharaTV, a United States-based […]
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General Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories, Wole Soyinka
Saturday, February 7th, 2015
February 05 Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has questioned the basis for President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid, saying he has not done enough to receive the votes of Nigerians on February 14. The revered scholar, who had earlier denied endorsing any candidate in the election, said at the appropriate time he would make his stand known. “Whenever […]
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Ekiti, Headlines, State News, Wole Soyinka
Sunday, October 12th, 2014
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the loss of the outgoing Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, in the June 21 governorship election as a mystery which the All Progressives Congress must unravel. He said with the various programmes and legacy projects put in place by Fayemi, his successor must continue on the […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma, Wole Soyinka
Saturday, September 27th, 2014
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | September 27, 2014 – Following the election of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011, my cousin, who lives in my hometown, called me. He told me that he, in concert with many other supporters of President Jonathan was celebrating his electoral victory. In such elation and jubilation over […]
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Friday, September 5th, 2014
Wole Soyinka, may he never live long on September 05, 2014 / in Viewpoint 12:33 pm / Comments IT was a night of radiant quality stars, in December 2010, at the State House, Banquet Hall of the Ghanaian Government, Accra,Ghana, where Professor Wole Soyinka was awarded the Millennium Excellence Award and Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize, […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories, Wole Soyinka
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014
Nigeria is suffering greater carnage at the hands of Islamist group Boko Haram than it did during a secessionist civil war, yet this has ironically made the country’s break-up less likely, Nigerian Nobel Literature Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said. Speaking at his home surrounded by rainforest in Abeokuta, Soyinka said the horrors inflicted by […]
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Ekiti, Headlines, State News, Wole Soyinka
Monday, June 23rd, 2014
BY CHARLES KUMOLU NOBEL laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, wants President Goodluck Jonathan to tell Nigerians who authorised the military to prevent some governors of the All Progressives Congress,APC, from attending the final governorship election campaign in Ekiti State, describing the action of the army as unconstitutional. He also called on the National Assembly to set […]