IN SHORT: The Nigerian government has denied online claims that a major road in the capital Abuja, named after the late military ruler Murtala Muhammed, has been renamed after Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka. The government also denied claims that the proposal to rename the road came from minister Nyesom Wike.
The Nigeria n government has denied online claims that a major road in the capital Abuja, named after the late military ruler Murtala Muhammed, has been renamed after Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka. The government also denied claims that the proposal to rename the road came from minister Nyesom Wike.an Abuja road named after the late military head of state Murtala Muhammed has been renamed after Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka.
"During the inauguration of the N20 , FCT Minister, Barrister Nyesom Wike, proposed to the President that the road be named after Prof Wole Soyinka, and the President agreed," "We urge all citizens to disregard any misinformation regarding the renaming of the Murtala Muhammed Expressway. The report is entirely false and only exists in the imagination of its purveyors."
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