For the umpteenth time, the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Thursday expressed doubt if President Muhammadu Buhari is still controlling the country’s affairs. The playwright...
The Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, on Wednesday said that the cows that strayed into the compound of Professor Wole Soyinka, belongs to a...
The Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Saturday decried the “complicit” silence of President Muhammadu Buhari on the activities of herdsmen across the country. Soyinka, who...
Last week threw up a relatively unknown quantity, Sunday Igboho, into Nigeria’s political landscape. While at that, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, stirred...
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Wednesday said the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has run out of steam in its fight against corruption in the...
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has expressed joy over the exit of Donald Trump as the United States President. Soyinka, who appeared on Arise Television Wednesday...
On November 2, 2016, a week before the US Presidential elections of Nov. 8, 2016, Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in Literature told a group...
Nigeria’s foremost playwright, Professor Wole Soyinka has said the country must learn to nip extremist instigations in the bud. The Nobel laureate, who stated this on...
Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has condemned the action of some northern governors in the country, who negotiate with bandits and other criminal elements, describing the...
Professor Wole Soyinka has described kidnappings of schoolchildren as a new cultural enterprise in Nigerian. He stated this while reacting to the release of 344 Kankara,...
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, said on Monday the recent abduction of several students at the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, was a slap...
In QuickRead this week, we take a shot at the critical statements credited to Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, and Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF),...
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) on Friday insisted that there was no leadership vacuum in Nigeria, contrary to an opinion canvassed by Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole...
Professor Wole Soyinka has said that he had since forgiven Nigeria’s former Head of State, Yakubu Gowon. Gowon, while serving as Nigerian leader, had in 1967...
Renowned playwright and Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has denounced a video calling on Igbo indigenes to vacate Yorubaland. One Grandson Adeyinka, a UK-based Nigerian, in...
Professor Wole Soyinka has lamented the shooting of peaceful protesters in Lekki, Lagos, on Tuesday evening by soldiers, describing it as “Back to Abacha – in...
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has said that Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka was wrong in his assessment of President Muhammadu Buhari’s policies and conduct. Soyinka had...
The presidency on Wednesday reacted to the criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration by the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka. Soyinka had in a statement on...
The governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom has kicked against supposed attempts by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to return the National Water Resources Bill rejected...
Professor Wole Soyinka has kicked against supposed attempts by President Muhammadu Buhari-led government and the National Assembly to return the National Water Resources Bill rejected by...
Retired Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa Umar, the former military Administrator of old Kaduna State was lucid, diplomatic and patriotic in a recent memo, nay open letter, he...
The continuation of the trial of the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore on Wednesday attracted notable names in the nation’s human rights society, including Professor...
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Tuesday, attacked a former Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, over his comment on the Western Nigeria Security Network...
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Wednesday asked the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who he said just woke up,...
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has hailed governors of Southwest states for the launch of the Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN), codenamed Amotekun. Soyinka, who described...
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has said that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is not borthered by the...
Professor Wole Soyinka on Monday maintained his stand against the Hate Speech Bill and pointed out some of the dangers associated with its passage into law....
The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism has postponed its plan to confer on Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, an honorary award. The Centre had earlier announced...
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has said that the lowering of the judiciary and disdain for law in Nigeria had been worst under President Muhammadu Buhari’s...
The Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has called on the Federal Government to release the co-convener of the RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore and save the country...
Nigerian playwright and Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Sunday described education in Nigeria as horrifying. Soyinka, who spoke at the University of Lagos, Akoka, during...
The recent harassment or detention of human rights activist, Dr. Chido Onumah, by state agents is not only a sign that Nigeria is drifting towards full-blown...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Tuesday morning. 1. Buhari thanks Nigerians for ignoring ‘Revolution’ protest President Muhammadu Buhari has said he...
Former spokesman of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, on Monday carpeted Prof. Sole Soyinka, alleging that nemesis is catching up with him. Omokri’s assertion comes as...
Speaking on the proposed RUGA settlements, Nobel Laurette, Wole Soyinka, has noted that cattle must not take priority over human beings. He cautioned that the implementation...
The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, on June 18, 2019, appointed a renowned Ibadan based journalist and columnist, Festus Adedayo, as his Special Adviser on Media and...
Notable public figures participated in the launch of the test run of the Lagos to Abeokuta train ride. Following the test run, residents can now take...
Nobel Leaureate, Professor Wole Soyinka through the CITIZEN FORUM, a group conveyed by him, has announced the endorsement of the presidential candidate of the Young Progressive...
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has decried President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent statement that rule of law is secondary when national interest or security is at stake....
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to make killer herdsmen punished for their crimes, adding that accusations of bias against him from...
Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has described ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo as the most hypocritical leader Nigeria has ever produced. The internationally acclaimed literature professor also vowed...
President Muhammadu Buhari has invited some of the major stakeholders in the struggle for the revalidation of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election to the...
Nobel laurate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has bemoaned the state of the Nigerian economy, saying it is bad and discouraging. He also called for an emergency economic...
Unsatisfied with the response of Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka over its claims that N82 Million was spent to host a dinner in his honour, the...
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has hit back at the Rivers State Government, describing the statement made by the state’s commissioner of information over the N82...
Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka is not taking recent “unprovoked assault of public lies” directed against him lightly, as he vowed yesterday that his latest book,...
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has hit back at former President Olusegun Obasanjo for describing him (Soyinka) as apolitical illiterate, who is only good at hunting...
