LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Peter Obi of the Labour Party has taken a jab at prominent Nigerians and others who ganged up in protest against former President Goodluck Jonathan when he pushed for fuel subsidy removal in 2012, but are now silent as President Bola Tinubu implements the same policy. At the memorial of the late…
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has condemned the recent ban placed on a song by Nigerian musician, Eedris Abdulkareem, describing the development as a return to the culture of censorship and a threat to the right to free expression. In a statement issued from New York University, Abu Dhabi, on Sunday, Soyinka…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has renamed the Arterial Road N20 from Northern Parkway to Outer Northern Expressway (ONEX) as Professor Wole Soyinka Highway. This was recommended by the Federal Capital Territory administration. President Tinubu noted that Soyinka was the first African to win the Nobel Literature Prize, adding that the literary icon has…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has urged government at all levels to desist from taking citizens as fool so as to bridge the gap between leaders and the led. Soyinka, who was a guest speaker at The Punch 50th anniversary lecture, themed ‘Recovering the Narrative,’ insisted that the government ought to be…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director of Researcher and Strategy of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 presidential polls, Dr Don Pedro Obaseki, has claimed that Nobel Prize winner Prof. Wole Soyinka attended the University of Ibadan (UI) but cannot present the institution’s diploma due to him being “rusticated” and not completing his program….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leadership of Labour Party has chided Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, for accusing the opposition party of attempting to hoodwink Nigerians into believing that its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, won the February 25 election. The objection is coming in the wake of Soyinka’s declaration on Wednesday at an event titled, “The Lives…
By Chief (Barr.) Malcolm Omirhobo LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At an event titled “The Lies Oh sorry , I mean the Lives of Wole Soyinka — A Dialogue” organised by Africa in the World, held in South Africa , Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka lied . He lied keeping a straight face that Labour Party leadership…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Sunday, paid a courtesy visit to the Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka. The visit is coming one month after the playwright clashed with the Obidients movement, a nickname adopted by Obi’s supporters. Soyinka, who faulted voter suppression witnessed in some polling units in…