90th birthday: Wole Soyinka gets presidential honour, details emerge

  • Tinubu has renamed the National Theatre in Iganmu, Surulere, Lagos, to the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and the Creative Arts in a birthday tribute
  • Tinubu disclosed this on Friday in a tribute he personally signed and noted that “It is also fitting we celebrate this national treasure while he is still with us”
  • Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka will turn 90 on Saturday, July 13, and over 80 schools in Nigeria will celebrate the Nobel Laureate for one month

Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has over two years of experience covering political parties and movements

On Friday, July 12, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu named the National Arts Theatre in Iganmu, Lagos, after Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka.