Wole Soyinka is set to release his first novel in nearly half a century. The Nobel Laureate, who is known and revered for his plays and poetry, has published two novels: The Interpreters (1964) and The Season of Anomy (1972). The book titled “The Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth” will be his third
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The presidency on Wednesday reacted to the criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration by the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka. Soyinka had in a statement on Tuesday corroborated ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s position on the state of the nation. He said the country was divided as never before under President Buhari’s leadership. But in his reaction,
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Professor Wole Soyinka has uncharacteristically backed former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s statement on Nigeria slowly becoming a failed state. Soyinka expressed that Obasanjo’s warning apparently fell on deaf ears with the Presidency’s reaction, stating that Nigeria “has been obliged to endure has been insolent distractions from garrulous and coarsened functionaries, apologists and sectarian opportunists.” The Nobel
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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has named railway stations along the Lagos-Ibadan and the Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri corridors after “deserving citizens who contributed to the progress and development of their respective communities and the nation at large”, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said. This was contained in a statement by the Ministry of
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