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11 Apr
Stakeholders in the media industry have continued to express dissatisfaction with the recent National Broadcasting Commission’s (NBC) fine on Channels TV, saying it portends grave danger for the nation’s democracy.
11 Apr
Sir: I have painstakingly listened to Prof. Wole Soyinka’s interviews on the Nigerian 2023 elections and I make bold to say that: “The man dies in him who keeps silent when it matters most.”
9 Apr
Agba o ni tan l’orile, by the special grace of Allah. But for the timely intervention of Nigeria’s ageless gift to the world, Prof Wole Soyinka, Oxford and Cambridge universities and other sympathetic establishments in and outside of UK would have been relentless with everything possible to dim the rising star of the enterprising creative genius and novelist, Onyeka Nwelue, who, many hail as a professor.
8 Apr
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has condemned the N5 million fine imposed on CHANNELS Television by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) over the March 22 interview it had with Labour Party (LP) vice-presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed.
22 Mar
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has called on the international community to deny perpetrators of violence in the country visa.
20 Feb
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has dismissed as fake, some quotes being attributed to him on social media.
23 Jan
Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has debunked a quote on Northern hegemony attributed to him by former Director General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Prof. Bola Akinterinwa. Soyinka maintained that the ex-NIIA DG has fallen victim "of Nigeria's fake attribution industry which has now attained hideous social dimensions". Akinterinwa, who is also…
17 Jan
It was a moment of recommence for hardwork yesterday, as Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, Managing Director, Guardian Newspapers Limited, Martins Oloja, were among distinguished personalities that paid tribute to former Editor, The Guardian on Sunday, Jahman Anikulapo. Speaking at an event held in commemoration of his 6oth birthday at Freedom Park, Lagos, yesterday, Soyinka…
2 May 2022
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, yesterday, travelled to Cotonou, Benin Republic, to visit Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho.
22 Dec 2021
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to disclose the outcome of his “robust pledge to open an enquiry into the spate of political murders that the nation has undergone in recent years”.
16 Dec 2021
Truncated in 1966 by the military, the system of government as enshrined in the ensuing Constitutions, 1979 – 1999, has been one, over centralised with enormous powers and resources vested in a central government...
4 Jun 2021
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has denounced a post credited to him on WhatsApp, associating him with the agitation for a Yoruba Nation, describing the post as “fake” and a “misinformation.”

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