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Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by seunjungle1(m): 10:50am On Jul 13, 2024
Happy birthday to the producer of Emeritus professors.
Long life sir!
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by Ishilove: 10:50am On Jul 13, 2024
GloriousGbola:
good morning @naptu2

happy hunting

another fish for the basket of oblivion
To chop ban dey hungry am, and he has been fed cheesy
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by Major7: 10:53am On Jul 13, 2024
RichBoy247:
Go and hug transformer like those before you.

Lazy youths with no future ambition still want a 90 years old man to be fighting for them. The same thing the man has been doing for over 60 years fighting for their grandfathers and their father while the lazy men he has been fighting for were locked up in their huts with their equally lazy wives making babies they cannot cater for thereby producing drug traffickers, human traffickers and fake drugs manufacturers
As much as your comment speaks the truth about the fact that he’s old, I don’t support tribalism 😎. An adage says when a man he’s old,he fights wars with caution. Can’t we the youth fight for ourselves like he does when he was much youngerhuh Must we continue to rely on a 90year old man? It sounds pathetic tho embarassed. Obedient I always remain ✌️
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by GloriousGbola: 10:55am On Jul 13, 2024
Ishilove:
To chop ban dey hungry am, and he has been fed cheesy
Let the clown go and activate another of his 1000 monikers. That will be his ultimate lifetime achievement. Artificially boosting Nairalands user count. maybe one day if he is lucky he will be given the honorary cockroach award for being a resilient and foul nuisance.
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Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by Angrymode: 10:57am On Jul 13, 2024
Chai! What Agbado cannot destroy does not exist. Imagine turning this man into nothing but a mockery at his old age. Such a pity and waste of grey hairs!
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Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by johnjose68: 10:57am On Jul 13, 2024
Major7:
As much as your comment speaks the truth about the fact that he’s old, I don’t support tribalism 😎. An adage says when a man he’s old,he fights wars with caution. Can’t we the youth fight for ourselves like he does when he was much youngerhuh Must we continue to rely on a 90year old man? It sounds pathetic tho embarassed. Obedient I always remain ✌️
I will still continue to advise you to go and confirm first if you are or are not a product of baby factory. After then, we can discuss the Prof of Profs cheesy

When last did you hear from Ekpa, your prime minister in diaspora grin grin
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by Major7: 11:05am On Jul 13, 2024
johnjose68:
I will still continue to advise you to go and confirm first if you are or are not a product of baby factory. After then, we can discuss the Prof of Profs cheesy

When last did you hear from Ekpa, your prime minister in diaspora grin grin
Oni opolo kan kan 🤣,I’m a Yoruba by tribe and most importantly, a proud Nigerian. Wole Soyinka is a role model to me an I have read several of his works as an art student. I’m not just a tribalist so chill out dude. Obedient i still remain.
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by Major7: 11:08am On Jul 13, 2024
ajailer:
Kura ni baba lati le. He has got the talent in him right from birth...., I can just imagine him playing a magician while being the youngest in his early school days.

Happy birthday to you Kongi. We bless the Lord for gracing us with a resilient soul as yours, all glory to Him. Stay strong baba. May God bless you with more years on earth in good health.
Ororo wa lo rie jare 💯
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Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by johnjose68: 11:09am On Jul 13, 2024
paxonel:
All these your episode of long biography can't you summarize it?

We know he won the Noble Laureates which we all admire so much, but the one he criticized Goodluck Jonathan government and refused to do the same to Buhari and this current Tinubu is what we don't understand.

Can you please explain?
No we cannot explain anything to a member of the headless mob, one of the fans of the man that gets his ideas from mad men.

We cannot explain anything to a bigoted soul, someone who hates but doesn't understand even the reason for his hatred for the blessed people of the South West where intellectual giants lived and continue to live:

Obafemi Awolowo
Jakande
Gani Fawehinmi
Wole Soyinka
Abraham Adesanya
Adekunle Fajuyi
Olarotimi


Never again in this nation will we have people of questionable characters like: Ojukwu, Peter Agulu Obi, Nnamdi Kanu, Ekpa, Racoon, Mrvitalis.


So we will not explain to you because you cannot comprehend it.
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by Major7: 11:09am On Jul 13, 2024
Getrich47:
Closer to the grave
Death has no age limits, even babies dies, for him to attain 90 is a definition of grace itself.
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Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by Electorate: 11:11am On Jul 13, 2024
naptu2:
Professor Wole Soyinka in conversation with Okey Ndibe in South Africa.


The full exchange on the 2023 elections (beginning at the 1:16:15 mark in the video).




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fWFfhIayqA
It is either you are Wole Soyinka himself or you worked for him, I can't imagine the time spent posting all these long epistle for a man who pioneered cultism in Nigeria that have claimed the life of thousands of Nigerian youths, a man who protested against hardship in Nigeria during President Goodluck Jonathan's regime but keeps mute when hardship is far worse than before now because Tinubu is his friend. He lost our respect long ago.

Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by NinjaMetahuman: 11:12am On Jul 13, 2024
The greatest black African when it comes to literature.
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Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by Ekaka14: 11:13am On Jul 13, 2024
Hurray!!!!
The trumpet-nosed, unrepentant cultist and tribal apologist is 90... shocked
Can't wait for your next milestone embarassed
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by johnjose68: 11:16am On Jul 13, 2024
Major7:
Oni opolo kan kan 🤣,I’m a Yoruba by tribe and most importantly, a proud Nigerian. Wole Soyinka is a role model to me an I have read several of his works as an art student. I’m not just a tribalist so chill out dude. Obedient i still remain.
Being stupid is not by tribe.
You can be stupid even when you come from the most intelligent and liberal tribe in the country.

After all, Judas was closed to Jesus, the Messiah, but was still stupid to the extent of working with those calling for the head of the Messiah, just like you working for and claiming to support the fraudulent group of imbeciles, the headless mob, whose patron jumped from one party to party to party in search of stolen manhood -the unprincipled man who once declared curse on his own head that the day he leaves apga is the day he will die. And from that day his conscience has died (just how Adam died in the spirit when he ate the forbidden fruit).

So to answer you directly. If truly you are Yoruba, then you are omo-ale.
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by naptu2(op): 11:17am On Jul 13, 2024
🤣
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by Electorate: 11:18am On Jul 13, 2024
johnjose68:
No we cannot explain anything to the a member of the headless mob, one of the fans of the man that gets his ideas from mad men.

We cannot explain anything to a bigoted soul, someone who hates but doesn't not understand even the reason for his hatred for the blessed people of the South West where intellectual giants lives and continue to live:

Obafemi Awolowo
Jakande
Gani Fawehinmi
Wole Soyinka
Abraham Adesanya
Adekunle Fajuyi
Olarotimi


Never in the history of this nation will have people of questionable characters like: Ojukwu, Peter Agulu Obi, Nnamdi Kanu, Ekpa, Racoon, Mrvitalis.


So we will not explain to you because you cannot comprehend it.
You still haven't explain why he is silent now when things are far worse, a typical example of an hypocrite...the father of cultists, the blood of thousands of Nigerian youths his cultists have killed will follow him to the grave...judgment of God awaits him when he dies.

Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by Leemzyy(f): 11:20am On Jul 13, 2024
Awwwn happy birthday dadda,gosh i love this man,so cool
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by TheWinterBird(m):
Wow, 90. Happy Prof. Wole Soyinka. Wishing you many many more years to come. One of Nigeria's greats.
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by omoredia: 11:30am On Jul 13, 2024
Tjra:
Typical Obidient insulting a legend.

What have you achieved in your entire existence?
A man without character is nothing. Because of what to eat the mumu change mouth
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by Archtype(m): 11:31am On Jul 13, 2024
Cultist Prof
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by Major7: 11:36am On Jul 13, 2024
johnjose68:
Being stupid is not by tribe.
You can be stupid even when you come from the most intelligent and liberal tribe in the country.

After all, Judas was closed to Jesus, the Messiah, but was still stupid to the extent of working with those calling for the head of the Messiah, just like you working for and claiming to support the fraudulent group of imbeciles, the headless mob, whose patron jumped from one party to party to party in search of stolen manhood -the unprincipled man who once declared curse on his own head that the day he leaves apga is the day he will die. And from that day his conscience has died (just how Adam died in the spirit when he ate the forbidden fruit).

So to answer you directly. If truly you are Yoruba, then you are omo-ale.
Your level of reasoning is lower beyond standard. You’re the Omo ale here and the fact that I support someone from another region doesn’t mean I am. OBI is a Nigerian and I’m proud to be a true Nigerian. Tribalistic Buffon 😁. The thoughts that you’re a Christian and even laying claims to support your stupidity amaze me. Is that the message of the crosshuh People like you wouldn’t have been gotten the message of salvation if those that brought the good news have your messed up mindset. Stop quoting me cos you irritate me already
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by johnjose68: 11:42am On Jul 13, 2024
Electorate:
You still haven't explain why he is silent now when things are far worse, a typical example of an hypocrite...the father of cultists, the blood of thousands of Nigerian youths his cultists have killed will follow him to the grave...judgment of God awaits him when he dies.
There are some things that fans of the man that gets his ideas from mad men cannot comprehend just like those people mentioned in the Bible that could not understand most of the teachings of Jesus. That is why HE will called his immediate disciples, when everyone else has left, to teach them in depth.

Now, to answer you directly, (even though your bigoted soul will not comprehend or you naturally do not want to comprehend), the pain we are going through as a nation is a culmination of many years of terrible actions and inactions, terrible and insanely acts of corruption from evil and wicked leaders from 1960.

Even the Great Britain and the United States would not have survived such horrible and deliberate pilfering of the country resources for so long a time.

So it is disturbing and disheartening for anyone to expect that such a badly deteriorated and disfigured country can suddenly be transmuted into El Dorado overnight.

There must be a period of pain (which nobody like, in fact, I do not like it too), but which is inevitable. It's like you having a wound for close to sixty years and then expect a miraculous touch for it to disappear!!!!!! Never, you must undergo a period of cleaning and cleansing and treatment which will be so painful that you would even want the treatment to stop. But an intelligent and brilliant nurse or doctor will continue with the treatment knowing fully well that the healing is around the corner. The flies and germs (like the headless mob) will not like this to happen, they will keep roaming about the wound trying endlessly to want to continue the decay of the wound. But the wound carrier (the country) and the doctor (the president and well meaning Nigeria like Professor Wole Soyinka) will continue with the treatment (which of course, is very very very very very PAINFUL).

The Professor knows that Nigeria is in good hands. He knows that the wounds that Nigeria suffer is enormous, and so the Doctor needs to deal with the source of the problem (and this will surely cause a lot of pain ) and the Doctor (the president) will not relent.

Even the great America that most of us cite as example once passed through a very great difficult times such as the great depression. Go and read the history of Singapore and even China. And even Isreal. They all went through very very very difficult moments.

So the Prof knows the wound is receiving the best of treatment from a professional and not from a borehole commissioner or minister of condolences.

I hope your medulla oblongata can comprehend this.
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by Shegzdave: 11:42am On Jul 13, 2024
Happy Birthday Professor Soyinka
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by Electorate: 11:54am On Jul 13, 2024
johnjose68:
There are some things that fans of the man that gets his ideas from mad men cannot comprehend just like those people mentioned in the Bible that could not understand most of the teachings of Jesus. That is why HE will called his immediate disciples, when everyone else has left, to them in depth.

Now, to answer you directly, (even though your bigoted soul will not comprehend or you naturally do not want to comprehend), the pain we are going through as a nation is a culmination of many years of terrible actions and inactions, terrible and insanely acts of corruption from evil and wicked leaders from 1960.

Even the Great Britain and the United States would not have survived such horrible and deliberate pilfering of the country resources for so long a time.

So it is disturbing and disheartening for anyone to expect that such a badly deteriorated and disfigured country can suddenly be transmuted into El Dorado overnight.

There must be a period of pain (which nobody like, in fact, I do not like it too), but which is inevitable. It's like you having a wound for close to sixty years and then expect a miraculous touch for it to disappear!!!!!! Never, you must undergo a period of cleaning and cleansing and treatment which will be so painful that you would even want the treatment to stop. But an intelligent and brilliant nurse or doctor will continue with the treatment knowing fully well that the healing is around the corner. The flies and germs (like the headless mob) will not like this to happen, they will keep roaming about the wound trying endlessly to want to continue the decay of the wound. But the wound carrier (the country) and the doctor (the president and well meaning Nigeria like Professor Wole Soyinka) will continue with the treatment (which of course, is very very very very very PAINFUL).

The Professor knows that Nigeria is in good hands. He knows that the wounds that Nigeria suffer is enormous, and so the Doctor needs to deal with the source of the problem (and this will surely cause a lot of pain ) and the Doctor (the president) will not relent.

Even the great America that most of us cite as example once passed through a very great difficult times such as the great depression. Go and read the history of Singapore and even China. And even Isreal. They all went through very very very difficult moments.

So the Prof knows the wound is receiving the best of treatment from a professional and not from a borehole commissioner or minister of condolences.

I hope your medulla oblongata can comprehend this.
You must be nuts to think Nigeria is in good hands with the present hardship due to frequent policy somersault by the current administration. Does it look like things are getting better to you? Nigeria is currently a lliving hell and you are here typing long jargons I didn't even bother to read...it is either you are not based in Nigeria or you are one of the few benefiting from government....go to the streets or take a trip to the nearest market to see the cost of goods, go back to that same market next week and see if the price they told you haven't gone up.

How can you even improve the quality of life of the citizens when Peter Obi is your problem? are you in power to always attack Peter Obi and masturbate over his speech or silence or fix Nigeria? Idiotic idiots.

Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by Tommydare(m): 11:58am On Jul 13, 2024
What about Sylvania egbuche and others that started the confraternity? And besides, the group were not violent or deadly when this people started. It was only meant to fight for students right. Before everything turned to whatever it is nw. Dont be too blinded by tribalism cos your tribesmen also follow.
Asiri1991:
My his lineages benefit abundantly from his gift to Nigerian youths. As he marks his 90 today, let 90 more cultists emerge from his family tree.





Amen.
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by johnjose68:
Major7:
Your level of reasoning is lower beyond standard. You’re the Omo ale here and the fact that I support someone from another region doesn’t mean I am. OBI is a Nigerian and I’m proud to be a true Nigerian. Tribalistic Buffon 😁. The thoughts that you’re a Christian and even laying claims to support your stupidity amaze me. Is that the message of the crosshuh People like you wouldn’t have been gotten the message of salvation if those that brought the good news have your messed up mindset. Stop quoting me cos you irritate me already
I am not sorry to disappoint you that I am a Christian.

Now to answer you directly, I am not against you supporting someone outside south west. Far from it.

What caught my attention is when you called yourself an obedient without knowing what that means.

Now let me school you a bit.

Being obedient mean you do the following:

1. You take advice and get ideas from mad men like obi did.

2. You are not principled like obi. A principled and ideological man will not jump from party to party.

3. You do not have integrity just like obi. Obi said the day he leaves apga is the day he will die. He has not die. Though his conscience has died.

4. You are a war monger like obi. Obi caused many rifts between churches when he was governor of anambra. He even tried to pushed Bishop Oyedepo into a war situation before the elections.

5. You are selfish like obi. Mention just one person obi mentored or passed on knowledge and principles of governance to. At least he should expect that his legacies should be carried on by people he mentored or he can thinks can do it alonehuh

6. You are a liar like obi. Obi lies and asks you to go and verify knowing fully well his fans (called Obedients) are not intelligent enough to verify. I wonder how he sleeps knowing fully well that he has lied.

7. You are a mediocre like obi. Only a mediocre presidential candidate will be commissioning boreholes up and down ( something that should be left to ward councilor or local government chairman or nysc members). (We are talking about a presidential candidate here!!!). He is just looking for opportunities to be in the news.

8. You are wicked like obi. Obi thrives when there is negative news to carry about the country. Whenever positive news is available, obi will closes his eyes.


9. You are not a team player like obi. Obi could not work even with his own commissioners when he was governor. He prefers instead to work alone. This is not an attribute of a leader.

10. You are a not leader like obi. Obi is not a president material. He is a gbajue and a fascist.

There are more....but I am not sure of your intellectual capacity to take them in.
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by Tjra: 12:14pm On Jul 13, 2024
omoredia:
A man without character is nothing. Because of what to eat the mumu change mouth
Because of what to eat?

Even as a 90 years old Great Grand Dad, I am sure his monthly pension from the American University he retired from is enough to set you up for life. I won't even go into his family's wealth, status and affluence.

You Obidients believe life starts and ends with PitObi's election failure. Everyone who doesn't support the failure is hungry and those who do are Billionaires.

Grand delusions at its peak.
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by Theoarhics: 12:17pm On Jul 13, 2024
Mumu old man cultist
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by omoredia: 12:20pm On Jul 13, 2024
Tjra:
Because of what to eat?

Even as a 90 years old Great Grand Dad, I am sure his monthly pension from the American University he retired from is enough to set you up for life. I won't even go into his family's wealth, status and affluence.

You Obidients believe life starts and ends with PitObi's election failure. Everyone who doesn't support the failure is hungry and those who do are Billionaires.

Grand delusions at its peak.
Who can satisfy the greedy? Can a fooI be content?
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by ColonelMichael: 12:21pm On Jul 13, 2024
Komu1048:
You just displayed your father failure, the list he could do is raise a proper child. I'm sure you've started from where he stopped
Hypocrites and cowards, you insulted someone, it was returned back and you are crying, if your parents trained you well, why did they subtract sense from you?
Bigots.
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by ColonelMichael: 12:23pm On Jul 13, 2024
INDOMIE9090:
a 90 yr old man won’t die well? Lol
My mother is a plg and her toto is leaking condemn oil, na her rotten toto wipe my sense comot
Re: Today Is Professor Wole Soyinka's 90th Birthday by ColonelMichael: 12:25pm On Jul 13, 2024
Tjra:
Because of what to eat?

Even as a 90 years old Great Grand Dad, I am sure his monthly pension from the American University he retired from is enough to set you up for life. I won't even go into his family's wealth, status and affluence.

You Obidients believe life starts and ends with PitObi's election failure. Everyone who doesn't support the failure is hungry and those who do are Billionaires.

Grand delusions at its peak.
Answer the simple question, why Did he all of a sudden keep quiet, what is the difference between Jonathan and the drug lord's regime?
You guys give people reasons to see yorubas in a bad light but I know not all yorubas are treacherous.
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