BREAKING NEW: How Soyinka Rejects ‘Secret Cult’ Tag on Pyrates

According to a report by Vanguard on Sunday, May 3, 2026, Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has dismissed long-standing claims describing the National Association of Seadogs (NAS), also known as the Pyrates Confraternity, as a secret cult, insisting that the organisation operates as an open civic body focused on advocacy and humanitarian service.

Soyinka made the clarification at the weekend during the foundation-laying ceremony of the group’s proposed national secretariat in Abuja, held at the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry complex.

According to him, despite decades of public engagement, outreach programmes, and social campaigns, the organisation has continued to face what he called persistent mischaracterisation in public discourse...Read The Complete; Full Original Here.>>>