Nobel laureate to end exile

Nobel laureate to end exile

LAGOS (AFP): Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka will return to his home country on Wednesday, almost four years after fleeing into exile, an official of the German airline Lufthansa said.

"Professor Soyinka is scheduled to arrive in Lagos tonight on the 19:40 (1:40 a.m. Jakarta time) flight from London," the official said.

Soyinka, a fierce critic of the late dictator General Sani Abacha, recently met new military leader General Abduhsilami Abubakar in New York and agreed to return to Nigeria.

He fled in November 1994 after Abacha ordered his arrest, Thereafter he became the most prominent critic of the Abacha regime.