Nigeria, April 13 -- Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has used biting satire to respond to the recent ban on musician Eedris Abdulkareem's song.

In a statement dripping with irony, Mr Soyinka 'praised' the government's "progressive move" in banning the song but argued that it didn't go far enough.

He humorously suggested that the musician should be proscribed and that action should also be taken against Ebun Aleshinloye, a PREMIUM TIMES cartoonist, who had responded to the ban with a cartoon commentary.

"We have been through this before, over and over again," Soyinka wrote. "We know where it all ends. It is boring, time-wasting, diversionary but most essential of all, subversive of all seizure of the fundamental right of free expression." ...