The Director-General of the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), Shuaibu Hussaini, has commended President Bola Tinubu for renaming the National Arts Theatre in Lagos, after Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka.Hussaini, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday, described the development as 'the kind of recognition one will wish for a giant like Wole Soyinka'.NAN reports that the President disclosed this in a tribute personally written and signed by him on Friday in Abuja, to mark Soyinka's 90th birthday.The President renamed the National Theatre as Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and the Creative Arts.It read: 'Professor Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Literature Prize in 1986, deserves all the accolades as he marks the milestone of 90 years on earth.'Having beaten prostate cancer, this milestone is a fitting testament to his ruggedness as a person and the significance of his work.'It is also fitting we celebrate this national treasure while he is still with u s.'I am, accordingly, delighted to announce the decision of the Federal Government to rename the National Theatre in Iganmu, Surulere, as the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and the Creative Arts.'Hussaini commended the President for his interest and passion for the arts.'It takes somebody who is passionate to remember that this kind of man needs to be recognised with this kind of iconic structure like the National Theatre.'It is a welcome development. I am happy because there is nothing you want to name after Soyinka that will be enough compared to what he has done in the literary world.'So, this is a fantastic news and welcome development. It is also the President's interest that made him create a separate ministry for arts, culture, and creative economy because culture has always been an appendage of the Ministry of Information.'For us in the arts, this is a fitting reward and recognition for the great feat that Wole Soyinka has achieved, not just for himself, but for Nigeria and Africa as a wh ole,' Hussaini said. (NAN)Source: News Agency of Nigeria
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