Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has called on Nigerians to embrace traditional medicine, describing it as the oldest and most enduring form of health care. Soyinka made the appeal on Wednesday in Abeokuta at a programme organised by the Ogun State Government in collaboration with traditionalists to mark the 2025 Isese Festival, held annually on…
President Bola Tinubu has extended warm felicitations to Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka as the iconic literary figure marks his 91st birthday today. In a tribute, President Tinubu described Professor Soyinka as a distinguished writer, cultural ambassador, and public intellectual whose towering legacy continues to inspire generations around the world. Soyinka, who in 1986 became…
ABUJA (CONVERSEER) – President Bola Tinubu has announced the conferment of national honours to the death and the living on June 12. The President conferred the honours while addressing a joint session of the Senate and the House of Representatives today to mark the nation’s Democracy Day. Those conferred with posthumous national honours are Shehu…
The Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka For me, it has always been about the heart of the man, his thoughtfulness and presence of mind at all times, even with the constant pressure on him and demand on his time. It is his willingness to volunteer his shoulders for those behind, and different noble causes, time and…
Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has lent his voice to the call for decentralisation of the running of the country, saying that it remained the only path for Nigeria to true nationhood. Delivering a public lecture, titled, ‘Recovering the Narrative,’ to mark PUNCH newspaper’s 50th anniversary on Thursday in Lagos, Mr Soyinka said decentralisation was key…
