Human rights activist and President of Women's Arise and Centre for Change, Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, has celebrated Nigerian playwright, Prof. Wole Soyinka as he turns 89 on Thursday. Soyinka was born on July 13, 1934, in Abeokuta, southwest Nigeria. Okei-Odumaki eulogised Soyinka, popularly called Kongi, in a press release on Thursday, in which she described living to see the Nobel Prize winner as a rare privilege for the human race.
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A rights group, Women Arise (WA), has urged Nigerian president, Bola Tinubu, to impact Nigerians positively with his administration through restructuring, tackling insecurity, working on the economy, and many others. The group affirmed that this would serve as a way to properly honour late Chief MKO Abiola posthumously and also for the president to retain his National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) membership credibility was for him to attend to issues which mattered to the June 12 hero.