The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), has taken over the case against the #RevolutioNow protest convener, Omoyele Sowore, from the Department of State Services (DSS). A statement by the minister’s Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Dr. Umar Gwandu, confirmed this on Friday. The statement referred […]
A coalition of civil society organisations in Nigeria has given President Muhammadu Buhari 14 days ultimatum to to release Omoyele Sowore and other illegal detainees in SSS custody or brace for nationwide protests. The coalition during a press conference in Abuja on Monday decried invasion of the court by the Department of State Services (DSS) […]
Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, has said that the re-arrest of Omoyele Sowore, convener of Revolution Now within the Federal High court premises in Abuja was “not a desecration of the temple of justice”, and that the video of the arrest being circulated on social media is concocted and does not reflect what transpired.’ Adesina spoke on […]
Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption has decried the re-arrest Omoyele Sowore, Convener, #RevolutionNow Protest by the operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS), on Friday. Prof Itse Saga speaking on the DSS action said Nigerians are entitled to an explanation. It’s not something you can do and keep quiet. It’s not alright. There […]
The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) says it has postponed the integrity award to be presented to the Vice-President Professor Yemi Osinbajo in protest to the rearrest in court of Omoyele Sowore by the Department of State Security (DSS) on Friday. In the statement signed by Motunrayo Alaka, its executive director, WSCIJ said the award ceremony […]
‘The People’s Democratic Party and Atiku Abubakar, in their dubious attempt at painting the APC government bad by all means, have chosen to exercise no restraint whatsoever in spreading falsehood. We would continue to reiterate the need for Nigerians to be wary of these people who are bent on bringing our country down’ the All […]
Following the unnecessary violation of the sanctity of the court and the rearrest of political activitist, Omoleye Sowore on Friday, the National Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has viewed the absurdities of the ongoing drama by Agents of the Department of Security Service with dissatisfaction and disenchantment. Shuaibu Usman Leman, the National […]
Abuja – Operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS), on Friday, re-arrested Omoyele Sowore, Convener, #RevolutionNow Protest, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare. Sowore and Bakare had resisted being rearrested by the officers of the security outfit shortly after Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu adjourned the day’s proceeding till Feb. 11, Feb. 12 and Feb. 13, 2020 […]
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to Mrs Soyata Maiga, Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the commission’s members requesting them: “to urgently intervene and put pressure on the Nigerian authorities and their agents to immediately end the intimidation and harassment of detained journalist and activist Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare, their sureties and lawyers, particularly Femi Falana, SAN simply for defending their clients’ rights.”
By Ukpono Ukpong, Abuja The Social Society for Peace and Social Justice (NSPSJ) has come hard on the Social Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) over what they described as multiple and bare faced lies delibrlately spurned to destabilize the country by giving it a bad image before Nigerians and the International Community. Addressing a […]
The Department of State Services (DSS) has said that it is ready to release Omoyele Sowore, convener of RevolutionNow Movement once the processes are concluded. The DSS in a statement on Wednesday, signed by Peter Afunanya, Public Relations Officer, Department of State Services, National Headquarters,Abuja , said that the appropriate persons have still not turned […]
Prof. Wole Soyinka Nobel Laureate, has said that meeting of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore’s bail conditions left Department of State Services, DSS floundering . Soyinka made this known in a statement on Tuesday reacting the DSS’ Tuesday intimidation of protesters who gathered around the service headquarters to demand for the release of Sowore. Soyinka warned […]
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has condemned “violent attacks on peaceful protesters demanding the release of Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare as ordered by the court.” In a statement today by SERAP deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare, the organization said: “We have seen a video footage apparently showing the use of lethal and excessive force […]
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Revd Justin Portal Welby urging him to use his good offices and leadership and his “friendship with President Muhammadu Buhari to prevail on him to obey court orders most recently involving activists Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare who […]
Pro-democracy activist, convener of the Revolution Now movement, the African Action Congress’ (AAC) Presidential candidate in the 2019 election Omoyele Sowore, has been reportedly protesting, his continued detention by the Department of State Services (DSS) following a court order for his immediate release. This came as the DSS said that it has gotten the court […]
There was a mild drama at Court 7, Federal High Court, Abuja, as application by the Department of State Services (DSS) counsel, Hassan Liman, to take witnesses in the ongoing trial of Omoyele Sowore, Convener, #RevolutionNow Protest, in camera failed. Sowore, alongside Olawale Bakare, is charged by the DSS with treasonable felony, money laundering, among […]
The trial of Omoyele Sowore has been adjourned to the 5th and 6th of December, 2019. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court adjourned the trial due to the objections raised by Counsel to Sowore, Mr Femi Falana to the effect that the defense team was never served with the witness statement that the […]
Abuja – Security in and around the Federal High Court, Abuja, was, on Wednesday, beefed up by officers of the Nigerian Police Force as Omoyele Sowore, Convener,#RevolutionNow Protest, appeared for commencement of trial. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu had, on Oct. 21, varied the bail conditions granted Sowore, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare. Justice Ojukwu granted the […]
Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) has said that ‘it is obvious that the federal government is playing politics with Sowore’s detention just as it asked ‘Where on earth does a democratically elected president flout the law and refuse court orders?’ The OPC Publicity Secretary, Yinka Oguntimehin, in a statement Tuesday said the prolonged detention was deliberate […]
Presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has accused his opponent in the 2019 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, of planning a return to power to allegedly create a paradise for thieves who’ll loot the country blind. While addressing the public at a summit, “African Leadership In The Millenium”, a part of Felabration 2018, in Lagos State on Monday, […]