•Seyi, Soyinka and Tinubu Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has faulted the large number of armed security personnel accompanying the son of President Bola Tinubu, Seyi. Speaking at the 20th Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) Awards in Lagos yesterday, Soyinka said the excessive deployment of security personnel around the presi...
•President Donald Trump and Prof Wole Soyinka The United States of America was right, fully right, to revoke Professor Wole Soyinka’s visa if indeed he once tore his American green card. That act was not a symbol of protest. It was a public declaration of contempt. You cannot tear up a nation’s symbol of trust […]
•DSS operatives The Department of State Services, DSS, has released Adejuwon Soyinka, a former editor of the BBC Pidgin Service, after detaining him for hours at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. This came as the International Press Institute, IPI, Nigeria, a global network of editors, media executives, and communication exp...
•Professor Wole Soyinka Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has urged the government at all levels to desist from taking citizens for a fool so as to bridge the gap between leaders and the led. Soyinka, who was a guest speaker at the Punch’s 50th anniversary lecture themed ‘Recovering the Narrative,’ insisted that the government ought [&hel...
•Wole Soyinka Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has lamented over the sorry state the social media has fallen into in recent times. According to him, the social media space has been dragged down to the lowest common denominator and taken over by people he described as “barbarians”. The literary icon made the assertion while speaking [&hel...
•Wole Soyinka Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka says some politicians in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) should be answering questions from anti-graft agencies over corrupt practices during their time in elected offices. The elder statesman and spoke on Channels Television today . Soyinka, who will clock 90 in July, said when it is t...
•Soyinka, Agunloye and Olukoyede Literally fuming on Monday, Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka demanded the detention of everyone directly or indirectly indicted in the alleged scam involving the Mambilla power project. He was speaking to the arrest and detention of a former Minister of Power and Steel, Olu Agunloye by the Economic and Fi...

