Soyinka @80: What Bishop Kukah Tells Him

        Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese,
Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah

Kukah, who argued Soyinka’s place is already assured among those in the pantheon of the great men and women of letters said, “One last word: Prof, had you listened to your mother, life would have been easier for you. Remember she warned you: ‘Wole, Itirayi ni gbobo nkan.’ Perhaps it is just as well that you did not believe in merely trying for them, you would not have had a Nobel Prize. For a failed trader, failed farmer, a soldier on AWOL, you did well by choosing Literature and Art.

Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah on Friday preached to Prof. Wole Soyinka to “return to the Lord,” as he walks toward the sunset.

Speaking in Abeokuta, Ogun State, during the 17th Wole Soyinka Annual Lecture Series, to coincide with the 80th birthday celebration of the Nobel Laureate, it was an event organized by the National Association of Seadogs.

American comedian comedian John Pinette found dead in Pittsburgh hotel - BBC

American comedian and actor John Pinette has been found dead in a hotel room in Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, reports say. Aged 50, he died of natural causes, the local medical examiner's office told Associated Press.

A veteran of the international comedy circuit, he was also famous for his role in the final episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. He had just started a tour across venues in the US and Canada.

Pinette died at the Sheraton Station Square Hotel in Pittsburgh on Saturday afternoon, US media report. A spokesperson for the medical examiner's office said the entertainer had been suffering from liver and heart disease. His manager told the Hollywood Reporter he had suffered a pulmonary embolism. The award-winning comedian was born in Boston in the state of Massachusetts in 1964 and was given his break when he was asked to tour with Frank Sinatra.