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How I battled and survived cancer- Wole Soyinka

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Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka,has revealed � he is a cancer survivor.Speaking today at a press conference at the June 12 Cultural Centre, Abeokuta, Ogun State,he said he was first diagnosed in December 2013 and after serious treatment and medications,he was cancer free last month on �October 28. He said �For ...

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How Soyinka and I started Pyrates Confraternity’ – 82 yr old Prof. Awe

The Pyrates Confraternity, which later metamorphosed into cultism in universities was founded by seven prominent Nigerians back in their days as undergraduate students at the University of Ibadan in 1953. It was the brain child of Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, who got 6 of his friends – Nat Oyelola, ...

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How Wole Soyinka almost killed himself with his Father’s gun at age 10

If Wole Soyinka had succeeded in pulling the trigger in his father’s dane gun years ago, his glorious life would have been cut short.� �I used to go with my father when he hunted. It was a mere air gun but was good enough for squirrels, the wild pigeon and ...

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I Never called Patience Jonathan an illiterate – Prof.Wole Soyinka

After the infamous video where the first�lady�was weeping over the missing Chibok girls, a statement attributed to Wole Soyinka read When you marry an illiterate woman as a wife, you will definitely make stupid decisions like jonathan’ In a�new release�by him, he says he never said anything like that … ...

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“Jonathan is in denial” – Wole Soyinka speaks with CNN on abducted girls

Wole Soyinka this evening was on CNN where he spoke to Amanpour Over the kidnapped of the Chibok school girls and here is part of what he said;     �This is a government which is not only in denial mentally, but in denial about certain obvious steps to take.” ...

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Why Abacha was given Centenary award – Reuben Abati

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, has defended the posthumous award given to Abacha during Nigeria’s centenary celebration last week. And according to him,� the award was not meant to celebrate moral virtues. A cross section of Nigerians had questioned the government for ...

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Wole Soyinka’s book to get film adaptation

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  The childhood memoir of Nobel laureate, Professor�Wole Soyinka’s, is to be adapted into a film. The production of the memoir which is titled ‘Ake, The Years of Childhood’�is being put together by a Lagos-based film production outfit,�Back Page Production. Dapo Adeniyi, the executive producer of the project, says�‘work will ...

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