…acres of land to the institution on a 999-year lease. He noted that despite producing a Nobel laureate, heads of state, central bank governors and builders of the capital market, the university had never approached the market to raise long-term funds. “Not once. Not a bond. Not a fund. Not a listed vehicle. “The premie…

…future challenges and shape the country’s development. Also speaking at the event, Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka highlighted imagination as a common thread linking literature, the creative arts and science. Soyinka argued that imagination was not restricted to the humanities, noting that disciplines such as mat…

…is equally boundless. It is home to Professor Wole Soyinka, Black Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in Literature. It produced Dr Adeoye Lambo, former Deputy Director-General of the World Health Organization. It gave us renowned historian Professor Anthony Asiwaju, legendary educationist Dr Tai Solarin, Chief Solomon Onafo…

…to pay N39 million for surgery Onyeka Nwelue has shared the response he received from Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka when he informed him that he needed to pay N39 million for surgery. According to the author, he approached Soyinka and told him that he had to undergo a knee surgery that would cost him N39 millio…

…cannot stand by while non-state actors wield instruments of violence with impunity. As Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka famously said, "The tiger does not proclaim its tigritude; it pounces." The Nigerian state needs to stop its descriptive essays on the state of insecurity in the land. It should act decisively ag…

John Jumper, who shared a recent Nobel Prize in chemistry, announced Friday that he's making the leap to Anthropic after "nearly 9 years" at Google DeepMind. In a post on X, Jumper wrote that DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis "took a real chance letting me lead the AlphaFold team just six months after finishing my PhD, and t…