{"id":8862,"date":"2024-08-03T16:09:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T16:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=8862"},"modified":"2024-08-03T16:14:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T16:14:05","slug":"photo-news-prominent-figures-gather-for-26th-wole-soyinka-lecture-to-address-systemic-corruption-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2024\/08\/03\/photo-news-prominent-figures-gather-for-26th-wole-soyinka-lecture-to-address-systemic-corruption-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo News: Prominent Figures Gather for 26th Wole Soyinka Lecture to Address Systemic Corruption in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8866 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/e84d19e2-d5c8-4c40-9911-361074ee6778-300x148.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/e84d19e2-d5c8-4c40-9911-361074ee6778-300x148.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/e84d19e2-d5c8-4c40-9911-361074ee6778-768x379.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/e84d19e2-d5c8-4c40-9911-361074ee6778-640x316.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/e84d19e2-d5c8-4c40-9911-361074ee6778.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nGuest Speaker and former Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN (right); Nobel Laureate and Honoree, Prof. Wole Soyinka (2nd right); Chief Host and NAS CAPN, Mr. Abiola Owoaje; two members of the Tortuga-in-Council (the Board of NAS), Mr. Steve Akhigbemidu (2nd left) and Dr. Asani Omozuwa (middle), during the 26th Wole Soyinka Lecture organized by the National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity) with the theme, &#8220;The Baby or the Bathwater: Navigating the Dark Tunnels of Systemic Corruption to Nationhood,&#8221; at the June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Friday, 2nd August 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8864 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/4e5ce403-a6f9-43e9-a463-50b237a4fc15-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/4e5ce403-a6f9-43e9-a463-50b237a4fc15-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/4e5ce403-a6f9-43e9-a463-50b237a4fc15-768x513.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/4e5ce403-a6f9-43e9-a463-50b237a4fc15-640x427.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/4e5ce403-a6f9-43e9-a463-50b237a4fc15.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8865 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/fbe1a225-ca7e-4cb3-a2f6-12e037f9bbb3-300x208.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/fbe1a225-ca7e-4cb3-a2f6-12e037f9bbb3-300x208.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/fbe1a225-ca7e-4cb3-a2f6-12e037f9bbb3-768x532.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/fbe1a225-ca7e-4cb3-a2f6-12e037f9bbb3-640x443.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/fbe1a225-ca7e-4cb3-a2f6-12e037f9bbb3-392x272.jpeg 392w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/fbe1a225-ca7e-4cb3-a2f6-12e037f9bbb3-130x90.jpeg 130w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/fbe1a225-ca7e-4cb3-a2f6-12e037f9bbb3.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8867 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/5468d93e-e058-492c-a6fd-cd82a8008662-300x191.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/5468d93e-e058-492c-a6fd-cd82a8008662-300x191.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/5468d93e-e058-492c-a6fd-cd82a8008662-768x490.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/5468d93e-e058-492c-a6fd-cd82a8008662-640x408.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/5468d93e-e058-492c-a6fd-cd82a8008662.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Speaker and former Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN (right); Nobel Laureate and Honoree, Prof. Wole<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8872,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions\/8872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}