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Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by Phi001(m): 7:54am On Dec 06, 2016 |
If Soyinka wants to go, let him get out and stop disturbing Nigeria!!! |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by Lifestone(m): 7:55am On Dec 06, 2016 |
GreatUniben:Ha check Wole Soyinka's life, he fough for civil right almost all through his active live. |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by ayusco85(m): 7:56am On Dec 06, 2016 |
ishowdotgmail: 5 FTC u said? Do u ve a job brother? |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by jahsharon: 7:57am On Dec 06, 2016 |
ishowdotgmail: Wole Soyinka, the world knows, who are thou? |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by Poliss(m): 7:58am On Dec 06, 2016 |
It's quite obvious that Soyinka's brain is now malfunctioning. He can relocate to Togo no problem. After all he's not useful anymore. |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by MAKABBEY(m): 7:58am On Dec 06, 2016 |
I just pray make Prof wole Soyinka no mistakenly enter niaraland to see all dis comment ooo. u guys want to commit murder abi.... |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by WOCKHARDI(m): 8:00am On Dec 06, 2016 |
Only in Naija. I can't imagine nor heard of a Nobel laurate and a professor for that matter from any other part of the world making such outbursts and castigating his compatriots. He made a wrong choice and lost. And people should not comment on that? He should stop abusing that laurel and the professorship. If people are fools and imbeciles, silence should have been his best answer. It is said: " Don't argue with a fool /madman /slowpoke because people may not know the difference ". |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by Ndolarr: 8:00am On Dec 06, 2016 |
Whatever some idiots say on this platform, Soyinka is a great Nigerian and is entitled to take personal decisions without query from busy-bodies, meddlesome-interlopers! I agree with him that majority of Nigerians have a slavish mentality and are moronic!! If not, politicians will induce voters with 200 naira, get their votes and turn around to loot the treasury and throw them into deeper poverty. Just this morning, jollof rice, egusi soup and pounded yam were reported to have been imported into the country with the scarce forex, yet our manufacturers are crying for forex to import machineries. Fuel importers stole the country blind under government subsidy policy, yet none of them has gone to jail. Many government agencies spent 450 billion naira revenue generated by them instead of remitting same into Federation Account. Jubrin made startling revelations about the massive stealing happening in the National Assembly, he was suspended and Nigerians are unperturbed!!! All these rubbish are happening, yet our moronic mentality will not allow us to be outraged and demand for speedy trial of culprits. Instead, Soyinka's decision to tear his green card interests us more! Very shameful!! 2 Likes |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by Missmossy(f): 8:06am On Dec 06, 2016 |
Whats with Wole Soyinka these days though?? See all the names he dished out to Nigerians. Imbeciles, morons. Chai!! This is so bad coming from him. He should go if he wants to, this has made me lose the little regard i reserved for him. Since Hillary Clinton lost it has been from one hullabaloo to another Prof. Should just take it easy. |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by Senorprinz(m): 8:07am On Dec 06, 2016 |
veekid:AM very sure he is. |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by worlexy(m): 8:07am On Dec 06, 2016 |
GreatUniben:He ran into exile when Abacha wanted to roast him alive and he also sold Buhari to us but ran away to the US again when the hardships became unbearable. He's also threatening to run away now, like he always do! 1 Like |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by fatiuabdulmalik: 8:09am On Dec 06, 2016 |
He said, "I should not be exiting the United States but Nigeria because the people on behalf of whom one has struggled all one’s life can be so slavish in mentality as to start querying the right of their champion to free speech." whose champion are you? on behalf of whom are u making money? i beg forget that thing oo. if u leave USA no be u loose! |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by SIRmanjar(m): 8:09am On Dec 06, 2016 |
uniklinkum:Guy live d innocent man joor.wole iz my man but im shayt 4 church use holy water clean yansh. U call am activizt baa?ok.we get plenty human right abuse here in Nigeria ad Africa.Y im come run leave im activizm go Yankee na?plz dnt tell me he left 4 work tinz o. We don put baba 4 power make evry body stay enjoy baba togeder joor. Im wan start to de form vexnation com uze d opportunity run live us again enter anoder betta country or remain 4 yankee.Abi na today Nigerians start to de yab am?I Sabi diz kin brain tactics im wan use jare.diz man too like flenjure. And I will luv it if u shade more light on the increase in attackz on minoritiz with proof o. 1 Like |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by Jymac(m): 8:10am On Dec 06, 2016 |
;[/color][color=#770077]Prof. You Find Joy in Criticizing Others but Cry when Others Criticize you. Now the Table has turn. Such is Life.......... My Advice take the pain and Move On |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by blueskies(f): 8:12am On Dec 06, 2016 |
davtosh:. Srzly I dnt understand these folks. How is it deir problem? Someone made a speech, a well respected achiever worldwide, he wasn't castigative neither was his speech derogatory towards anyone. He gave out his opinion on a matter and am sure before he concluded to such, he had weighed his words and options and felt it wnt av any negative effect on him or on anyone. So why r pple so quick to judge without thorough and deep thinking. Many of them base their reasonin and response on sentiments. He's a human rights activist and he was trying to pass a message across, besides he's welcomed anywhere because he's a well-respected academician and he has wat it takes to deliver 2 Likes |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by loomer: 8:15am On Dec 06, 2016 |
Oga, who you struggle for? |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by discusant: 8:15am On Dec 06, 2016 |
Buyeradvertcom: The people that queued behind a near-octogenarian in 2015 to become president of Nigeria, in the midst of younger and better educated, and better qualified presidential materials, those people need their heads to be re-examined. |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by Spidermon: 8:19am On Dec 06, 2016 |
He wants to have the last word on this matter but he is only digging himself deeper into the mess. |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by discusant: 8:23am On Dec 06, 2016 |
Wole, you don't seem to understand that you made a hate-speech by threatening in public place that if an American wins an American presidential election, you would tear your American Green Card in protest. Americans don't tolerate hate speech. America is not a Third World country where people make hate speeches and get away with it. Because Wole made a hate speech was the reason Nigerians descended upon him. |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by SIRmanjar(m): 8:23am On Dec 06, 2016 |
Buyeradvertcom:BaBa plz i have a sonly advice 4 u ad dat iz just keep kwayet ad let time heal ur 4ck up. |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by Ekeremgba(m): 8:26am On Dec 06, 2016 |
[quote author=Buyeradvertcom post=51672497]Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has threatened to exit Nigeria as a response to the media harassment to which Nigerians have subjected him. Speaking to reporters today at a media event held at Freedom Park on Lagos Island, Mr. Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for literature, said he was embarrassed to share a country with some "imbeciles and morons." He said, "I should not be exiting the United States but Nigeria because the people on behalf of whom one has struggled all one’s life can be so slavish in mentality as to start querying the right of their champion to free speech." He continued, "I am embarrassed to occupy the same space as some imbeciles and morons," adding that the exit from Nigeria can be "internal" or "external". Mr. Soyinka, a retired professor from Obafemi Awolowo University and numerous universities in the U.K. and US, also threatened to move the residency of his foundation, the Wole Soyinka Foundation, out of Nigeria and dared anybody to criticize his decision. "If the board agrees," he said, "I will move the residency of my foundation out of the country," he said. He added that on the inauguration of the US president-elect, Donald Trump, he would hold a private funeral wake to mourn the death of common sense in Nigeria. The Nobel laureate expressed irritation at many Nigerians who had taken to the social media to criticize his comment to leave the United States of America and tear his green card after Mr. Trump was declared winner in the November 8, 2016 presidential election in the US. He said, "We worked to make sure the least important person in our society enjoys freedom of expression. When I decide to take this same action [use his freedom of speech], I don’t want people whom we have fought for to enjoy freedom of expression to start all kinds of vulgar and stupid commentaries. "Barbarians have taken over this community using the anonymity, most of the time, of the Internet to sit somewhere and start writing rubbish, questioning the right of people like me to express ourselves." Mr. Soyinka said Nigerians have no right to question his decision to leave the US. "What is the business of any stupid Nigerian to open his or her mouth to challenge my right? Did you get the green card for me? The arrogance of some Nigerians is overwhelming, and I don’t interfere, so how dare you interfere with me?" he said. He asked, “Why do Nigerians wail louder than the bereaved?” Mr. Soyinka said he never wanted the American green card, but was given one by former President Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, which caused him to christen the document "Jimmy Carter's card." He said, "I call my green card Jimmy Carter’s card because he got it for me and, as a matter of fact, I did not ask for it." http://saharareporters.com/2016/12/05/wole-soyinka-berates-nigerian-critics-threatens-exit-nigeria [/quote i thought his case is becoming critical though. Yes i said it that toomuch of everything is too bad, too much profesorship i hate coz of this situation that our own found himself, 1 Share
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Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by middlebelter(m): 8:27am On Dec 06, 2016 |
It is very clear that many of the young men and women making comments here do not have a good knowledge of the man, Prof. Wole Soyinka, some of them were either to young to know when he won the nobel price or were not yet born and unfortunately their fathers did not tell them his story. The man Soyinka hates injustice, you can't take it away from him. A man in his 80s is certainly a grand father and should be respected. Prof should see all the negative comments about his person as one of the downside of social media. It does not imply that Nigerians does not appreciate his person and contribution. Most of the young men on social media rattling our Prof should kindly desist from it. South Africans will never disparage Mandela or Desmond Tutu they way we are doing to Wole Soyinka. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by RetroBoy: 8:29am On Dec 06, 2016 |
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Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by greatjoey: 8:30am On Dec 06, 2016 |
Buyeradvertcom:I see that senility has taken a toll on the workings of Soyinka's brain. Come to think of it, who made him our champion in the past? Men of great knowledge are known by their contributions made towards breakthrough in human existence. We know them in the field of science and technology and not a mere field of story tellings. Your foundation has not had any impact on the citizenry and here you are threatening to take out. Who cares? You are one of the reasons we are plunged into this dungeon of despondency and near death experience today. Your threat is typical of Afonjas. You talk much more than you act. It's high time you relocated to Niger republic. Leaders don't insult the led even in Provocation. You are the slowpoke here, old oaf. 1 Like |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by 4front(m): 8:31am On Dec 06, 2016 |
Which book the jero father wrote self abi the trial of brother jero. Y can't baba teach common sense When he was lecturing? |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by RetroBoy: 8:32am On Dec 06, 2016 |
middlebelter:God bless you sir. All these youngsters who know nothing will come online to abuse an octogenarian and a Nobel Laureate. Tutu or Mandela would never have been cursed with so many ignorant younger ones. 1 Like |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by greatjoey: 8:37am On Dec 06, 2016 |
middlebelter: In what sphere would you compare the person of Mandela to Soyinka who is only known in the field of literature? What indispensable relevance does that field have in our existence? When in the history of Mandela did he insult the south Africans in provocations? 1 Like |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by copiescopy(m): 8:39am On Dec 06, 2016 |
When is he moving? so we can help him pack his load to Congo. At least he has begun to see what bubus body odour is like . 1 Like |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by matozim: 8:40am On Dec 06, 2016 |
Baba abeg say the truth.....recession don hit u hard so you dey look for way to ja from 9ja 1 Like |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by gbire: 8:43am On Dec 06, 2016 |
[quote author=Buyeradvertcom post=51672497]Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has threatened to exit Nigeria as a response to the media harassment to which Nigerians have subjected him. Speaking to reporters today at a media event held at Freedom Park on Lagos Island, Mr. Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for literature, said he was embarrassed to share a country with some "imbeciles and morons." He said, "I should not be exiting the United States but Nigeria because the people on behalf of whom one has struggled all one’s life can be so slavish in mentality as to start querying the right of their champion to free speech." He continued, "I am embarrassed to occupy the same space as some imbeciles and morons," adding that the exit from Nigeria can be "internal" or "external". Mr. Soyinka, a retired professor from Obafemi Awolowo University and numerous universities in the U.K. and US, also threatened to move the residency of his foundation, the Wole Soyinka Foundation, out of Nigeria and dared anybody to criticize his decision. "If the board agrees," he said, "I will move the residency of my foundation out of the country," he said. He added that on the inauguration of the US president-elect, Donald Trump, he would hold a private funeral wake to mourn the death of common sense in Nigeria. The Nobel laureate expressed irritation at many Nigerians who had taken to the social media to criticize his comment to leave the United States of America and tear his green card after Mr. Trump was declared winner in the November 8, 2016 presidential election in the US. He said, "We worked to make sure the least important person in our society enjoys freedom of expression. When I decide to take this same action [use his freedom of speech], I don’t want people whom we have fought for to enjoy freedom of expression to start all kinds of vulgar and stupid commentaries. "Barbarians have taken over this community using the anonymity, most of the time, of the Internet to sit somewhere and start writing rubbish, questioning the right of people like me to express ourselves." Mr. Soyinka said Nigerians have no right to question his decision to leave the US. "What is the business of any stupid Nigerian to open his or her mouth to challenge my right? Did you get the green card for me? The arrogance of some Nigerians is overwhelming, and I don’t interfere, so how dare you interfere with me?" he said. He asked, “Why do Nigerians wail louder than the bereaved?” Mr. Soyinka said he never wanted the American green card, but was given one by former President Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, which caused him to christen the document "Jimmy Carter's card." He said, "I call my green card Jimmy Carter’s card because he got it for me and, as a matter of fact, I did not ask for it." http://saharareporters.com/2016/12/05/wole-soyinka-berates-nigerian-critics-threatens-exit-nigeria Too much of everything is bad. Receive sense IJN. |
Re: Soyinka Threatens To Exit Nigeria by Nobody: 8:44am On Dec 06, 2016 |
DIKEnaWAR:just had to quote you, what brand do you drink? You deserve two bottles |
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