Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has revealed that former President Olusegun Obasanjo deliberately sabotaged efforts by late Chief Bola Ige at solving the power problems of...
By SOC Okenwa Obiageli (Oby) Ezekwesili was the former Education Minister during the Obasanjo presidential era. She was the co-convener of the popular Bring-Back-Our-Girls (BBOG) movement...
Nobel laureate and Nigeria renowned playwright, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Tuesday frowned at President Muhammadu Buhari’s attitude towards an unnamed person he termed late Moshood Abiola’s...
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Wednesday said that there was no other word to describe killings going on in Benue State than ethnic cleansing. He...
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Monday revealed spoke of how the issue of corruption that has continued to ravage Nigeria as a country, can be...
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has described killings in majorly Middle Belt states of Nigeria as simply ethnic cleansing, saying that the shade of Rwanda is...
Professor Wole Soyinka on Thursday decried how ‘evil’ has continued to triumph over ‘good’ in Nigeria and urged President Muhammadu Buhari and all Nigerians to join...
Very prominent Nigerians and groups, among whom are Wole Soyinka, Olisa Agbakoba, Abduljalil Tafawa Balewa and the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), have formed a Grand Political...
Nobel Prize laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called on the Nigerian Intervention Movement (NIM), which prides itself as a Third Force coalition to be vigilant and...
By Reuben Abati… Professor Wole Soyinka was keynote speaker at the maiden annual lecture of the Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism held in Lagos...
The much anticipated maiden edition of the Ripples Nigeria Dialogue was held in Lagos last Thursday, with the event over subscribed. The theme of the dialogue...
The Chairperson of Transition Monitoring Group, Dr. Abiola Afolabi-Akiyode, has said that Nigeria’s political and economic system has been designed to fail by Nigerian elites who...
Nigerian playwright and Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has said that he would need to be examined by a psychiatrist, if for any reason, he joins...
The Nobel laureate and respected playwright, Professor Wole Soyinka, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is in a trance and that he would tell him that...
As the government continues to give conflicting reasons responsible for the enduring fuel scarcity in the country, Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called on the...
Ripples Nigeria, a frontline multimedia online news platform has once again added to its array of accomplishments in investigative journalism. Its reporter, Ebere Ndukwu was awarded...
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Monday disagreed with the position of former President Olusegun Obasanjo that what Nigeria needs is a restructuring of the mind....
Nigeria’s literary icon and Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, on Friday disagreed with the position held by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and other Nigerians who claim...
Former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan on new media, Reno Omokri has taken a swipe at Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi who said he is...
Playwright and Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is hiding his health status like United States of America’s (USA’s) President Donald...
The die is cast and it seems all set for a showdown after former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu officially accepted the challenge...
Professor Wole Soyinka has humorously said that the reason President Muhammadu Buhari was silent on the killings of over 800 Southern Kaduna Christians may have been...
“The man dies in him who keeps silent in the face of tyranny” -Wole Soyinka By Remi Oyeyemi… From Lagos Island to Lake Chad; Calabar to...
Nigerian playwright and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said that Nigerians had no right to question the decision he took over the emergence of Donald...
By Louis Odion… This must be a depressing hour indeed for the man who “fashioned the drama of existence” and first black Nobel prizewinner in Literature,...
By Wole Soyinka… I shall begin on a morbid note. One of the horror stories that emerged from the Daesh (ISIS) controlled parts of Iraq was...
Humour merchant Bright Okpocha aka Basketmouth has jokingly declared that he will run for Presidency if Donald Trump emerges as the next President of the United...
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris, has said the Nigerian Police has not banned public protests and processions any where in the country. The IGP,...
The statement credited to the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, that the street protests being embarked upon by Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG, advocacy group...
A faction of the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, RNDA, has named Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka and a former Governor of Abia...
Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, on Thursday lashed out at the Nigerian media, saying he would not talk to them any longer due to what he described...
By Okey Ndibe… I wish I knew the exact words Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka spoke to President Muhammadu Buhari when they met privately last week. My...
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Thursday, had a closed door meeting for about an hour with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The...
Professor Wole Soyinka has lent his voice to recent calls for the restructuring of Nigeria, saying decentralization of the country would ensure healthy rivalry. The Nobel...
By Emmanuel Uchenna Ugwu… Ibrahim Badamasi Babaginda has been busy lately. He has been tending his sick body and refuting rumors of his own death. ...
In the days leading to the nomination of retired General Muhammadu Buhari as the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), many Nigerians had a...
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, Wednesday, joined other Nigerians accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of inaction over the continued carnage and mass murder being committed by Fulani...
A group, The Integrity Group of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State, have berated the state governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and Prof. Wole Soyinka over...
“The man dies in him who keeps silent in the face of tyranny.” – Wole Soyinka I am beginning to be embarrassed by what is going...
Pissed off by reports that he referred to the Igbo ethnic group as incurably money-minded, Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has stated that such a report is...
Igbos vote based on their stomach, they suffer from incurable money mindedness- Wole Soyinka The Igbo ethnic group does seem to be getting a lot of...
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says there is a need to investigate the audio file which purportedly captured some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders giving orders...
