Tinubu renames National Theatre after Soyinka

President Bola Tinubu has renamed the National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos after the Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka. This is part of the president’s gesture to congratulate Nigeria’s literary colossus and global icon, Professor Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, famously known as Wole Soyinka, on his 90th birthday, which is July 13, 2024. A statement by the […]


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