Convener of the Revolution Now Movement, Omoyele Sowore, on Monday criticized the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Abubakar Malami. Sowore said Malami is the worst AGF so far in Nigeria who cannot parade himself as a lawyer in “serious climes.” The pro-democracy activist was reacting to a comment by a political activist, Dele Farotimi, […]
Omoyele Sowore, Publisher of Sahara Reporters, has accused the Nigeria Police Force of trying to frustrate his family after his younger brother was shot dead in Edo state. Sowore raised the alarm in a post via his Facebook account on Wednesday. He alleged that the Nigeria Police Force is charging them exorbitantly to ”discourage” them […]
Omoyele Sowore, a human rights activist, was arrested at the Federal High Judge in Abuja and released after the court deferred the trial of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra. Sowore revealed this in a video he posted on social media on Monday. “We’ve been set free. We were apprehended […]
Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of Sahara Reporters, has advised Nigerians in the United Kingdom to occupy the London hospital where President Muhammadu Buhari will undergo medical examinations. Remember that the President of Nigeria flew to the United Kingdom on Wednesday for “routine medical leave,” as reported by his media aide, Femi Adesina, on Tuesday. However, […]
Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has criticised the General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, for keeping mum over bad governance, corruption and oppression under the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. Daily Times gathered that Sowore expressed his views in a Twitter post on Saturday. READ ALSO: Eight dead as Police engage in […]
Renowned journalist and proprietor of SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, has taken a hard swipe at President Muhummadu Buhari, labeling the Nigerian President as demented. Mr Sowore made this claim as he took to his twitter handle to share a picture of President Buhari handing the APC flag to Pastor Ize Iyamu, the Edo State APC Gubernatorial […]
Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has relieved Mr Allen Sowore, Special Assistant on New Media to the embattled Deputy Governor, Agboola Ajayi, of his appointment with immediate effect. This is contained in a statement issued on Tuesday in Akure by Mr Olusegun Ajiboye, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor and made available to newsmen. […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned the trial of the Convener of #RevolutionNow movement, Omoyele Sowore, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare. READ ALSO: Omoyele Sowore trial: Court orders prosecution counsel to put house in order Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu adjourned the trial until April 1 and 2 in a ruling on Wednesday following […]
Abuja – The Federal High Court, Abuja, will, on March 25, hear a separate suit filed by Omoyele Sowore, Convener, #RevolutionNow, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare, against the Department of State Services (DSS) over alleged unlawful detention. Justice Inyang Ekwo adjourned the matters after the regularisation of processes filed by parties in the suits. Sowore […]
Abuja – Omoyele Sowore, Convener, #RevolutionNow, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare were, on Thursday, arraigned by the Federal Government before Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu on fresh charges as the prosecution brought forward the evidence of payment of the N200, 000 fine imposed yesteday by the court. Sowore and Bakare, however, pleaded not guilty to the amended […]
The federal government has re-arraigned Omoyele Sowore, convener of #RevolutionNow Movement, on a two-count charge of treasonable felony. At the court on Thursday, Aminu Alilu, the prosecution counsel, asked that the previous seven-count charge, which was filed in September 2019, be substituted with the amended charge. Upon re-arraignment, Sowore and Olawale Bakare, his co-defendant, pleaded […]
Abuja – Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the Federal Government to pay a N200, 000 fine to Omoyele Sowore, Convener, #RevolutionNow, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare. Justice Ojukwu, who gave the order after Aminu Alilu, counsel to the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), sought for an adjournment to […]
Human rights activist and journalist, Omoyele Sowore, has asked the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, to dismiss the treasonable felony filed against him by the Nigerian Government for lack of diligent prosecution. At the resumed hearing of the case on Wednesday in Abuja, counsel to Sowore, Olumide Fusika, holding brief for Femi […]
Enugu – The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) says the release of retired Col. Sambo Dasuki and Mr Omoyele Sowore is the best Christmas gift to Nigerians by President Muhammadu Buhari. Dasuki, was the former National Security Adviser and Sowore, a journalist, was the promoter of RevolutionNow Movement. Mr Bestman Okereafor, NYCN National Public […]
Lagos – Some senior lawyers have said that the move by the Federal Government to release Mr Omoyele Sowore and retired Col. Sambo Dasuki from detention was significant and essential to the rule of law. Recalled that that while Sowore, leader of the ‘Revolution Now Movement”, was arrested and detained in August, Dasuki, former National Security […]
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has welcomed the announcement by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari ordering the release of #RevolutionNow protest convener, Mr. Omoyele Sowore and the immediate-past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, from custody. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN) today reportedly directed the […]
The continued detention of the Mr Omoyele Sowore convener of the RevolutionNow protest and his arrest at courtroom has attracted the concern of six United State senators. The US lawmakers in a letter written to Nigeria’s Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami requested that he takes immediate steps to ensure the safety and security of […]
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, on Monday, said he will not ‘take unilateral decision without recourse to the rule of law over the release of Omoyele Sowore. The minister in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Dr. Umar Gwandu, was reacting to Sowore’s […]
The lawyer to the convener of ‘RevolutionNow’ protest, Omoyele Sowore, has written a letter to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN), seeking the release of his client from the custody of the Department of State Services. Human Right, Femi Falana, SAN in a letter, titled, ‘Request for the […]
The lawyer to #RevolutioNow protest convener, Omoyele Sowore, human rights lawyer, Femi Falana has said that Department of State Services (DSS) which he calls the SSS is currently fishing for evidence to nail Sowore. In spite of the directive of the AGF to take over the case the sss subjected Sowore to a 4-hour interrogation […]