Headline of Daily Times newspapers on Thursday, October 9, 1969 captured the release of Nigeria’s Nobel Laureates, Wole Soyinka after his 22 months of imprisonment for advocating for Biafrans
During the Nigeria/Biafra war, the then Nigeria’s head of state, Yakubu Gowon put Soyinka in solitary confinement for two years after Soyinka secretly and unofficially met with the military governor of Eastern Region, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu in Enugu in August 1967, to try to avert the civil war.