President Bola Tinubu on Thursday announced national honours for dozens of Nigerians as part of events marking Nigeria’s Democracy Day. Among the notable honorees he announced during his State of the Nation address at the National Assembly on Thursday were the late Kudirat Abiola, who received a Commander of the Federal Republic title, and Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka, who …

He reincarnated in the form of a cream coloured, two-storey building in the bosom of the boulder-braided, writers’ commune, in the rocky delight of Abuja’s Mpape district. His happy host, like him an erstwhile member of the tribe of wordmongers was dispatched over a phantom putsch one decade before him. But he rolled out a carpet of dry laterite with …