Tinubu hails Soyinka as “national repository of history” on 92nd birthday

From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja

President Bola Tinubu has paid tribute to Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka as the celebrated playwright turns 92, describing him as a “global icon” and “one of our nation’s living repositories of history, knowledge, and courage.”

In a State House statement he personally signed ahead of Soyinka’s birthday on July 13, the president praised the literary…