Noble Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says restructuring has become inevitable for the nation to prevail over its challenges. Mr Soyinka spoke at the Punch Nigeria Ltd 50th Anniversary Lecture titled "Recovering the Narrative" at Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos. Delivering a lecture on the theme, Soyinka said that Nigerians did not have to go through unending hardship to live better. Soyinka said those leading the country recognised the importance of restructuring and its inevitability, but were not adopting it, for whatever reason. According to him, restructuring is necessary in order to maximize development. Soyinka noted that provision of palliatives to the suffering masses was just a stop gap. Calling for genuine action on restructuring, Soyinka decried that many conferences on the subject had not yielded positive results. Soyinka said that government should restore dignity to citizens and guarantee three square meals a day for the people. On the media, Soyinka said that humanity could be transformed if language and media were positively used.
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