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    Politics Wole Soyinka's Reaction to Donald Trump's Election Victory

    Here's an interview of Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, in reaction to Donald Trump's presidential election victory. Did Donald Trump's victory surprise you? Not altogether. The possibility was looming nearer and nearer, getting scarier and scarier. What do you think Trump's victory...
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    Politics US Election: I Will Tear my Green Card on January 20- Wole Soyinka

    Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has stated that he would fulfill his promise to tear his green card. During the buildup to the US presidential election, Soyinka had promised to tear his green card if Donald Trump won. On Wednesday, Donald Trump was announced America's President-elect...
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    World Soyinka Subs Bob Dylan - I Want to Be Nominated For a Grammy

    Wole Soyinka, the 1986 winner of the Nobel laureate Prize for literature is not happy about this year's winner, Bob Dylan. Asked about Bob Dylan’s unexpected crowning as winner of this year’s Nobel laureate, during an Oxford seminar, Soyinka said, “Since I’ve written quite a number of songs...
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    World Soyinka - I'll Tear Up My Green Card If Trump Wins US Elections

    Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel laureate in literature has threatened to tear up his Green card if Republican Presidential candidate, Donald Trump wins the US election. Giving a seminar to students at Oxford University, GUARDIAN UK reports that Soyinka who now lives the United States...
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    Metro Soyinka Attacks Religious Leaders in Northern Nigeria

    Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, has accused northern religious leaders of injecting toxins into their followers, resulting in brutal murders of others of different faith, as witnessed in Zamfara recently. According to him religious violence will continue in Nigeria until preachers of religious...
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    Metro Wole Soyinka Reacts To Being Named in Niger Delta Negotiation Team

    Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has reacted to reports that he is included in the Niger Delta negotiation team with the federal government. He said that some Niger Delta militant groups had reached out to him in their efforts at interfacing with the government on the current militancy in...
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    Metro Soyinka To Lead Avengers’ Dialogue Group

    Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, may play a key role in resolving the current conflict between the Federal Government and the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), the militant group which has claimed responsibility for the renewed militancy and bombing of oil and gas facilities in the Niger Delta...
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    Politics Soyinka: What I Discussed With President Buhari

    Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Thursday said he came to see President Muhammadu Buhari on national and international matters. Soyinka said this when he surprisingly saw State House correspondents who were already laying ambush for him in front of the Press Gallery. “I didn’t come to...
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    Politics PHOTOS: Buhari, Soyinka At The Statehouse Today

    President Muhammadu Buhari recieved Professor Wole Soyinka at the Statehouse today. Details of the meeting not yet known... See photos: Related: Buhari, Wole Soyinka in Closed Door Meeting at Aso Rock
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    Politics Buhari, Wole Soyinka in Closed Door Meeting at Aso Rock

    President Muhammadu Buhari and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, are currently meeting inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting is holding behind closed doors inside the President’s office. The agenda of the meeting described as a private one was not made public.
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    Politics Soyinka: Treasury Looters Should be Jailed Not Bailed

    Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has stated that anyone found guilty by the current anti corruption war should be jailed. “There is only one way for corrupt people; it ends in the prison. It ends in Ibara or Oba (prisons in Abeokuta) or Kirikiri(Lagos prison)," he said. “Yes, it’s...
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    Politics Nigerians Need to Strip Federal Government of Its Power - Wole Soyinka

    Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has called for a decentralization of the Nigerian government. According to him, the over centralisation of the Nigerian government had resulted in resentment among constituent states. He said the policy is insulting and that it promotes anti-healthy...
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    Metro Nigeria Camera Men As Weapon of Mass Obstruction, By Wole Soyinka

    It is time to call a spade a spade or, in this instance, name the Nigerian media camera a weapon of mass obstruction. What used to be mere occasional infraction, soon corrected, is fast becoming a Bill of Rights – for a minuscule sector of the professional community. We are galloping towards an...
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    Metro Wole Soyinka Slams Nigerians Over False Appraisal of President Buhari's Administration

    Nigerian Poet, and Nobel laureate has voiced out on claims that he appraised the one year administration of President Mohammadu Buhari. In a statement titled, Inmates for the Republic of Liars, Soyinka describes the message as a “disgusting forgery. “The following attribution is a disgusting...
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    Politics Buhari Inherited Burden From Goodluck Jonathan – Wole Soyinka

    Nigerian Poet, and Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has said it would take time for President Muhammadu Buhari to heal the injuries inflicted on Nigeria by former president, Goodluck Jonathan. According to Soyinka, the immediate past government left a “heavy baggage” and “burden” that may take...
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    Politics Senate Holds Public Hearing on Herdsmen Brutal Attacks

    Currently at the National Assembly Complex, the Senate committees on Agriculture and Intelligence and National Security are holding a public hearing on the attacks by herdsmen in the country. The hearing is meant to be a day’s event, according to PUNCH report. Recent brutal attacks by herdsmen...
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    Metro Soyinka Sends Powerful Message to Buhari over Fulani Herdsmen Attacks

    Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has sent out a strong words to President Muhammadu Buhari by lashing out for his seeming inability to rein in the violent activities of herdsmen across the country. In his address to the National Conference on Culture and Tourism, Wednesday, Mr. Soyinka said the...
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    Politics N82m Soyinka Fete: Amaechi Blasts Wike, Dares Him to go to Court

    Nigeria's Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, has launched a verbal attack on Rivers state governor Nyesom Wike for accusing him of corruption. The duo have been enmeshed in a war of words which is fought regularly on the pages of newspapers. Wike had accused Amaechi of stealing N82...
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    Metro Fayose is Nothing But A Tout – Soyinka

    Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, Wednesday night went personal against the Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, calling him a ‘tout’, New Telegraph report. Soyinka was reacting to what he described as Fayose’s attack on judges shortly before his swearing-in as the governor of the state...
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