Soyinka: Why Abiola must be declared elected president

MKO Abiola was the nation’s elected president.  Let that fact be enshrined in the nation’s records, then we would have embarked on one of the tributaries to the amplitude of true national reconciliation”. With those words, Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, spoke on the anniversary of the death of Chief MKO Abiola, the acclaimed winner […]

Govt culpable in N’Delta pollution—Soyinka

June 30, 2012 by Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt  Professor Wole Soyinka | credits: File copy Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said that oil companies collaborate with corrupt governments in the past to inflict pains of environmental degradation on the Niger Delta people. Soyinka explained that the Niger Delta was systematically poisoned and degraded through […]

UNILAG Renaming: It’s arbitrary, an act of disrespect –Soyinka

May 31, 2012 by Agency Reporter  Professor Wole Soyinka | credits: File copy This is one gift horse which, contrary to traditional saying, must be inspected thoroughly in the mouth. Primary from all of us must be a plea to the MKO Abiola family not to misconstrue the protests against the naming of the University […]

Opinion: Soyinka wants to scatter Nigeria

Photo: Sun News Publishing Class, you’re not going to like this. I was half way transcribing the torrents of texts that trailed the publication of last week when guess what? Something happened – technology failed me. The phone crashed. It wiped away most of your reactions to the story. Traditionally, for fairness and all, I […]

1999 Constitution: N’Assembly seeks dismissal of Soyinka’s suit

March 16, 2012 by Ade Adesomoju  National Assembly has filed an objection to a suit by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, and Fred Agbeyegbe, seeking a Federal High Court, Lagos to declare that the amended 1999 Constitution is not an act of the people. The Clerk of the National Assembly, in a written address dated […]

Nigeria heading towards civil war – Soyinka

NOBEL laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Tuesday warned that the country was heading towards a civil war caused by the political leaders. “We see the nation heading towards a civil war,” Soyinka reportedly told the BBC World Service in an interview on the state of the nation. Asked whether he agreed with President Goodluck Jonathan […]

Soyinka, Braithwaite, Achebe, others stand with Nigerians in protest

THE Federal Government’s offer of palliatives after it has removed the fuel subsidy has been described as “medicine after death” by Prof. Wole Soyinka. In a statement at the weekend entitled, ‘Back To The Trenches, Predictably,’ the Nobel laureate said: “Rarely has government alienation from the people it is meant to serve been so pronounced […]

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