Long Read This year’s recall of an uplifting day in the year 1993 comes up against a background of its most shameful disavowal: the 2019 elections – still under judicial contestation – an event that would be more accurately described…
Providus Bank celebrates World Poetry Day with Wole Soyinka
With over 100 specially invited guests seated in the banking hall of their head office in Victoria Island, Providus Bank highlighted their literary bonafides in an evening of poetry tagged “World Poetry Day with WS.” Welcoming guests Walter Akpani, MD…
Ikeogu Oke: Family to announce new burial date
The burial arrangements for late Ikeogu Oke, earlier announced for February 23 by the family have been shelved, owing to the postponement of the general elections. The family, through a statement released by John Oke, said that “due to adjustment…
New directions in a time of decision – Wole Soyinka
The nation has been brought to her knees. Internally, the blaring media testimony needs no augmentation. Beyond her borders, Nigeria is the tale of citizens designated pariahs of the global community for whom special dossiers are opened, and units of…
Handshake across history? –Wole Soyinka
LONG READ! Let us begin with some collective introspection. I have become increasingly convinced that, between leadership and the led, there is only a very thin dividing line, often nearly indistinguishable. There is no question in my mind that, most…
Restructuring unstoppable, say Soyinka, Nwodo, Adebanjo (Guardian)
Prominent Nigerians have restated calls for restructuring the country with Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka insisting the move is unstoppable. “A methodological way of stopping the bloodbath in the country is to reconfigure the nation. And nobody has the right, either…