Charles Oputa (better known as Charly Boy) has taken a dig at Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka over his recent outings in the media, saying he can never be the man the late Prof. Chinua Achebe was. Achebe, regarded as the “father of African literature”, died on 21st March 2013 aged 82 years, while Soyinka is sub-Saharan Africa’s first Nobel …

Vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Dr Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed has turned down Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka’s challenge to an open debate. Soyinka had challenged Baba-Ahmed to an open debate following attacks on him by ‘OBIdients’ who were not happy with his reaction to the vice presidential candidate’s comments on the 25th February presidential election. “Like many …

Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has frowned at the barrage of attacks on him by the Labour Party (LP) supporters, called the ‘OBidient’ movement, for condemning the comments of the party’s vice presidential candidate, Dr Datti Baba-Ahmed in an interview on Channels Television. During the interview, Baba-Ahmed had warned against swearing in the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on 29th …

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has disowned a statement on social media linking him to the endorsement of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The social media post also purportedly indicated that the elder statesman described the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo in …