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Twitter ban a petulant gesture, unbecoming of a democratically elected President – Soyinka
Professor Wole Soyinka have recently adviced that if President Muhammadu Buhari has a problem with the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, then he should sort it out privately and not engage everyone in it. In reaction to the ban on Friday placed on Twitter by the Federal Government, the Nobel Laureate said the move is a “petulant gesture” that…
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TheCable apologises to Soyinka over ‘Igbo’ story
The management of Cable Newspaper Ltd, publishers of TheCable, would like to make the following statement concerning our report on the lecture by Professor Wole Soyinka at the Harvard University Hutchins Centre for African & African American Research. Soyinka was quoted to have made derogatory remarks about the Igbo over their voting pattern in the March 28 presidential election. He has since…
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Soyinka denies insulting Igbo, slams online media
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has denied describing Igbo as people who vote based on their stomach. The report, published by TheCable, alleged that he accused the Igbo of voting according to their “stomachs”. In an angry response to the story, Soyinka said in a statement: “I have just read a statement attributed to me on something called The CABLE,…
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‘Igbos vote with their stomachs,’ says Wole Soyinka
Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has reportedly said that Igbos tend to put their votes where their stomachs take them. Soyinka also added that Igbos “suffer from incurable money-mindedness, as they would stop at nothing in their quest for personal financial gain”, according to The Cable. Soyinka is said to have made the statements on April 29, 2015, while delivering a…
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