Sowore

My agenda for Nigeria in 2023: New constitution, release of political detainees, workers, pensioners and students’ welfare — Presidential aspirant

      By Ajuma Edwina Ameh     Human rights activist and Sahara Reporters Publisher, Omoyele Sowore, has declared his intention to...

Aborted protest in Abuja: Omoyele Sowore, Saharareporters publisher, shot

  Omoyele Sowore, publisher of SaharaReporters, an online newspaper, has been hit by a teargas canister shot at him by the police in...

Security agents arrest Sowore, pro-democracy activists in widening crackdown

  Just a few hours after President Muhammadu Buhari’s New Year broadcast, the publisher of Saharareporters and human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, and others...

Disruption of #RevolutionNow protest: Court orders FG to pay lawyer N1m

  …to also apologise in 3 newspapers for tear gassing him …judge condemns mass arrest, harassment, tear-gassing, clamping into detention of protesters For...

Sowore heads for Appeal Court on bail condition restricting him to Abuja

  Omoyele Sowore, the convener of #Revolution Now protests and publisher of SaharaReporters, has filed an appeal against the judgment of an Abuja...

New trial date set for Sowore, Bakare

  Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare,  charged with treasonable felony and conspiracy, has had their trial rescheduled again,...

BREAKING: Omoyele Sowore freed at last

  At last, the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, has been set free from the custody of the Department of State Services...

Sowore: Abuja Court Summons Justice Minister, DSS DG

    The Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mr Yusuf Bichi and the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of...

Sowore: Justice Minister says can’t order his release from DSS custody

…suggests recourse to court   Without foreclosing Omoyele Sowore’s release from the custody of the Department of State Service  (DSS), the Attorney-General and Minister...

Desecration of temple of justice: House of Reps launches probe

  Worried by the invasion of the court by the Department of State Service (DSS) to rearrest of the onvener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele...

Sowore: DSS can’t absolve itself, operatives apologized to judge for courtroom incident

  Not withstanding the denial of arrest of Omoyele Sowore in court, his lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN) on Sunday faulted the refuttal...

Sowore: Soyinka to  DSS: You are African wild dogs on a pack hunt 

  Outraged by the arrest in the courtroom of Omoyele Sowore by the Department of State Service  (DSS), Prof. Wole Soyinka says the...

Sowore: Abuja Court threatens DSS DG with contempt, imprisonment

  Incensed by its flagrant disobedience of court orders, a Federal High Court in Abuja has asked the Director-General of the Department of...

Soyinka to DSS: Release Sowore now, stop the violence

  … resist demolition engines of state security agencies, tells CSOs     Outraged by the “intransigence’’ of the Department of State Services...

SERAP writes to Archbishop of Canterbury, seeks his intervention in Sowore’s release

  Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Revd Justin Portal Welby urging...