Saturday, September 28, 2013 How I escaped death in Kenya mall attack -Soyinka advertisement *Nobel laureate, JP Clark, others condemn incident By HENRY AKUBUIRO But for a stroke of luck, Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, would have been among the dead in the terror attack that […]
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Friday condemned last Saturday’s terrorist attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, capital of Kenya. The attack led to the death of prominent Ghanaian writer and diplomat, Prof. Kofi Awoonor. In a meeting with journalists at the Freedom Park on Broad Street, Lagos, Soyinka described those who led the […]
NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has berated critics, who attributed the cause of late Chinua Achebe’s accident that eventually confined him to a wheel chair until he recently breathed his last, to the “spotless ram” he presented to him as a gift for his sixtieth birthday. Soyinka, in a release entitled “The Village Mourners Association,” […]
As South-East governors work out befitting funeral rites for Prof. Chinua Achebe, former Abia State governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu yesterday advised them not to tribalise the whole arrangement. Kalu specifically asked that Profs. Wole Soyinka, John Bekederemor Clark and the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola be included in the burial committee. He said: “Achebe, […]
BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT – NOBEL laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has lashed at members of Boko Haram, saying they have limited knowledge of Islamic religion. Speaking Monday in Port Harcourt at the opening of this year’s Rivers state education summit, organised by the state government Professor Soyinka said poor knowledge of the Koran was […]
BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT – NOBEL laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has lashed at members of Boko Haram, saying they have limited knowledge of Islamic religion. Speaking Monday in Port Harcourt at the opening of this year’s Rivers state education summit, organised by the state government Professor Soyinka said poor knowledge of the Koran was […]
Veteran writers and Achebe’s compatriots, Prof. Wole Soyinka and J.P. Clark, have linked his death to the bomb attacks that occurred in Kano on Monday. In a joint statement they issued on Friday, entitled “On the Passing of Chinua Achebe,” they noted that his death might have been hastened by the shock from the violence […]
By CHINELO OBOGO Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has made history again by being the recipient of the Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership instituted by Obafemi Awolowo Foundation for people who have imbibed the core values that the late sage represented. Announcing Soyinka’s name yesterday, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, who was […]
The Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, spoke this week at the Hay Festival in Mexico. In an extract from his talk, he tells Peter Godwin that now is the time to tackle militants in Nigeria Professor Soyinka, you’re not an ivory-tower kind of writer. You are not a stranger to danger, and in fact you’ve […]
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, urged the Federal Government to appeal against the ceding of Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon. Soyinka said this at the commemorative lecture of rights activist, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, at 79 in Lagos on Monday. He said Bakassi remained a testing ground for Nigeria’s corporate integrity, stressing that the government should know […]
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