Nigeria: Nation Living Under Cloud of Shame, Dereliction, Says Soyinka

17 November 2014

Ibadan — NIGERIA is living under a cloud of shame, embarrassment and feeling of dereliction caused by an insurgency that was allowed to thrive because of government's incompetence and lack of genuine leadership, Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has said.

Soyinka, who spoke Monday on behalf of other recipients of the University of Ibadan (UI) honourary doctorate degree during the institution's 2014 Foundation Day Anniversary and Convocation, said "we are all sitting under a cloud of heavy embarrassment, shame of the feeling of dereliction, and sullen responsibility towards children."

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