Birthday: Tinubu Names National Theatre After Wole Soyinka

July 12, 2024

President Bola Tinubu has named the National Arts Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos State, after Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka.

Tinubu announced this in a letter he wrote to celebrate the iconic figure in commemoration of his 90th birthday.

In the tribute personally signed by the President and made available to the media on Friday, he noted that the literary giant, the first African to win the Nobel Literature Prize in 1986, deserved all the accolades in this milestone, “Having beaten prostate cancer, this milestone is a fitting testament to his ruggedness as a person and the significance of his work.”

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