Ogun State Police command has cleared the air on purported Incursion of Fulani herdsmen into the property of renowned Professor Wole Soyinka. In a viral video on social media, the herdsmen were seen nudging there cattle into an area said to the estate of Soyinka. Reacting to the video, the police said claims making the … Read more
Wole Soyinka, Nobel lauréate, has expressed delight at the stance taken by most northern elites concerning the state of the nation especially as it regards insecurity. Speaking when he featured on Arise TV programme on Saturday, Soyinka charged state who are yet to launch their own security outfit to do so because of the troubling … Read more
Wole Soyinka, Nobel lauréate, has expressed hopelessness and despondency concerning president Muhammadu Buhari administration. Asked to comment on state of the nation and the government of the day, Soyinka said the current administration is beyond redemption and, for one to maintain his sanity, its existence has to be obliterated from memory. Ekohotblog gathered that in … Read more
Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, popularly known as Wole Soyinka, is a name which needs no introduction. Whether you are a millennial belonging to the new school dispensation, or an oldie from the old school era, the name will reverberate with the same degree of intensity, and more so for all the right reasons. Having accomplished … Read more
Wole Soyinka, playwright and Nobel laureate, has decried a bill seeking to bring the regulation of water resources in Nigeria under the exclusive list. The national water resources bill 2020 was first introduced in 2018 but faced vehement opposition hence it rejection. It was, however, reintroduced by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in July, and now … Read more
Professor Wole Soyinka, the Nobel Laureate and literary icon, is 86 years old today. Tributes are pouring in for the man who has stood for decades as his country’s gadfly and conscience. Soyinka’s life has been kaleidoscopic: he is a playwright, novelist, poet, conscientious objector, political activist, human rights campaigner and a change campaigner. Read … Read more
Playwright and Nobel laureate, has berated the federal government over the amended 6th broadcasting code by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). Soyinka described the amended code as an “economic sabotage”, asking the Government to admit its war on “arts and its producers instead of its tactics of slowly weakening the sector”. The NBC had reviewed … Read more
Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has urged Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, to ‘apologise’ for saying President Muhammadu Buhari was not in charge of Nigeria. EKOHOTBLOG had reported that Soyinka stated this during an interview on PlusTv Africa on Thursday. Soyinka said: “I have said this before. I do not believe there … Read more
Last year October, about a week after the nation space that we have generously agreed to refer to as Nigeria, celebrated her 59th year of Independence from colonial rule, I found myself at the Athens Democracy Forum, Athens being of course that former nation-state that claims the honour of pioneering a system of governance that … Read more
Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka,has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to control the excesses of DSS officers, whom he described as the President’s ‘dogs of disobedience.’ Soyinka, who made this known in a statement titled ‘Lessons from the African wild dog (Lycaeon Pictus)’, while reacting to Friday’s court invasion by the DSS to rearrest Sowore, … Read more
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Sunday, condemned the Buhari government over Omoyele Sowore’s arrest. He described the act by by the Department of State Services (DSS) as “a terrorist midnight arrest.” Sowore is the convener of ‘#RevolutionNow’ protests, which has been scheduled to hold nationwide on Monday, August 5. Soyinka, in a statement made … Read more
Nobel Laurette, Wole Soyinka says the implementation of ranching or any other initiative to solve the herders/farmers crisis should be done with humanity as a priority. He said this while fielding questions from journalists about the recently proposed Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) initiative, at an event on Tuesday. According to him, the RUGA initiative is … Read more
Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, on Tuesday, warned that Federal Government’s planned Ruga herdsmen settlements could spark an explosion in the country if not properly handled. Soyinka, who was speaking at the inauguration of the United Nations Solutions 17 SDG programme in Lagos, noted that the Ruga project of the Federal Government was not the … Read more