Nobel Peace Prize winner, Denis Mukwege, has been placed under the security of United Nations forces in Democratic Republic Congo after death threats against him.
Nigerian Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, who clocked 86 (13 July 2020) has elucidated his motive for enlisting in the Nigerian Army officer Corp but decided to leave after a period.
A post has been circulating falsely claiming that 2018 Nobel laureate Dr Dénis Mukwege resigned from COVID-19 response teams in DR Congo because he had been ordered to declare illnesses and deaths to be coronavirus-related even when they were not.