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Punch Newspapers Sections Published 6 May 2021 SLOWLY but steadily, Nigeria is sliding into war. Shortly after bandits slaughtered three of the kidnapped 23 undergraduates of Greenfield University, Kaduna, Wole Soyinka, a Nobel laureate, captured the moment explicitly in a statement entitled, ‘Endless Martyrdom of Youth.’ He said, “This nation is at war, yet we continue to pretend that these are mere birth-pangs of a glorious entity.” Seriously, Nigeria is on the brink of catastrophe because of the bloody violence that has ensnared it on the watch of the President, Major General Muham...

Stop Sucking The Blood of Innocent Youths, Soyinka to Buhari   Wole Soyinka, world renowned Nobel Laureate has called on the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government of Nigeria to stop the blame game and urgently salvage Nigeria from becoming a failed state. In a letter titled, ‘The Endless Martyrdom of Youth,’ he stressed the need to “stop improvising with human Lives. Youth – that is, the future – should not serve as a ritual offering on the altar of a failing State.” His statement reads in part: “Abukakar Atiku has summed up the nation’s feeling – this most recent savager...

Sad Week In Nigeria: Over 239 killed, 44 kidnapped in separate incidents The killings, mostly by armed non-state actors, occurred in different states of the country. Indeed, that is the perfect description of the current situation of Africa’s most populous nation where kidnappings and killings have become the order of the day. In the past week, at least 239 people were killed and 44 others kidnapped in separate violent incidents across the country, mostly by armed non-state actors. The violence is not limited to any state, ethnic group or religion. It is a general problem that the administr...

•President mourns, describes killing as a barbaric terror attack •It’s shocking, Northern governors lament The already over-stretched sinews of moral restraint have been snapped off the casing of nation being, and nothing is left but the collective wails of impotence. Not for the first time, what many hoped was a Natural Law of Limitations has been contemptuously, defiantly breached – Soyinka Deji Elumoye in Abuja, Gboyega Akinsanmi in Lagos and Seriki Adinoyi in Jos Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has cried out about the endless martyrdom of youth in the country. And h...