The Nigerian Police Force has again arrested the Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore after he led a #CrossoverWithProtest procession in Abuja, the nation’s capital on New Year’s eve. Sowore in the company of other protesters were reportedly at Gudu junction in Abuja when police vans numbering up to seven closed in on them and … Read more
2019 Presidential Candidate and highly controversial activist, Omoyele Sowore has called out President Muhammadu Buhari for his direct involvement in a number of massacres in the country since assumption of office in 2015, Eko Hot Blog reports. Sowore, who aired his view via his verified Twitter handle made a long list of massacres which he … Read more
The Defence Intelligence Agency in Nigeria has reportedly placed a bounty on the head of RevolutionNow convener, Omoyele Sowore. In a tweet on Wednesday night, Sowore said the Defence Headquarter in Abuja ordered that he must be arrested or murdered. ” Info reaching me now is that a signal from DIA has put a bounty … Read more
The group also expressed that by cutting off access to his family and implementing severe and disproportionate bail conditions, the Nigerian government had violated Sowore’s right to a fair trial. The United Nations Working Group has declared the detention of human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, as arbitrary and illegal under international law. It, therefore, called … Read more
The Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, has threatened to sue Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore over a report it carried accusing him of engaging in contract scam. Obasa has now given Sowore seven days to retract the claim against him or risk a N1 billion libel suit. The lawmaker made … Read more
The hearing of the trial of The Convener of #RevolutionNow movement, Omoyele Sowore, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare, have resumed today at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The duo are being tried before Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu over Allegations of treason, money laundering among others. On March 5, the government had filed a motion on … Read more
The Attorney General of the Federal, Abubakar Malami, has defended the federal government action to having detained the concerned of the RevolutionNow movement, Omoyele Sowore and the former National Security Adviser to the former President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Sambo Dasuki by the DSS against the court orders that granted him bail. The minster of Justice … Read more
A labour leader, Issa Aremu, has said that the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and Convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore must prove their innocence of the charges against them. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) National Executive Committee member, and General Secretary, Textile Union, Kaduna, in a statement, said that the release … Read more
A United States Senator from New Jersey, Cory Anthony Booker, has called on the Federal Government to ensure safety of the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore. He made this in a tweet after the release of Sowore from the custody of the Department of State Services(DSS) on Tuesday. Reacting to Sowore’s release, Booker lamented … Read more
The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has commended the Federal Government for the release of the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and convener of #RevolutionNow protests Omoyele Sowore as mandated by the Federal High Court, Abuja. The CAN President, Rev Samson Ayokunle, in a statement on Tuesday, said … Read more
The Presidency last night clarified that the RevolutionNow Convener, Omoyele Sowore was not persecuted for his role as a media entrepreneur. A statement by the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, reads: “The Presidency wishes to clarify the release on bail, of the presidential candidate of the … Read more
Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has withdrawn from the fundamental rights enforcement suit instituted by the ‘RevolutionNow’ protests convener, Mr Omoyele Sowore, seeking an order for his release from the custody of the Department of State Services(DSS). Justice Mohammed ruled on Monday that he could not hear Sowore’s case … Read more
The Social and Economic Rights and Accountability Project SERAP has strongly condemned the Monday attack on the protesters of the unconstitutional arrest of the Convener of the RevolutionNow movement Omoyele Sowore. SERAP made the condemnation known via a press statement issued on Monday. The statement reads “We strongly condemn the intimidation, harassment and attacks today … Read more
The former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has alleged that thugs sponsored by President Muhammadu Buhari, attacked the human right activist Prince Deji Adeyanu, and other protesters of the rearrest of the convener of the RevolutionNow movement, Omoyele Sowore. Fani-Kayode alleged that about 150-strong crowd of young, wild, drug-crazed youths attacked the peaceful protesters in Abuja … Read more
The gubernatorial candidate of the Action Democratic Party ADP in Lagos State, Babatunde Olalere Gbadamosi, has berated the Department of State Service over the rearrest of the convener of the RevolutionNow Movement, Omoyele Sowore. Gbadamosi described the invasion of the a Federal High Court to arrest Sowore as unbelievable adding that, DSS acted as if … Read more
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has summoned the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami alongside the Director General of the Department of State Service, Yusuf Bichi, over the continued detention of the convener of the RevolutionNow movement, Omoyele Sowore. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a bench ruling ordered the duo to appear before … Read more
The Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said that he can’t give the secret service the directives to release the leader of the RevolutionNow movement, Omoyele Sowore from its custody without a court order. The Minister of Justice disclosed this in a press statement by his Special Assistant on Media and Public … Read more
The human right lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has called on the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN) to withdraw all charges against the convener of the RevolutionNow movement, Omoyele Sowore and his codefendant, Olawale Bakare. Falana disclosed this in a press statement over the weekend adding that, the Federal government has no evidence … Read more
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has reacted to the Federal Government’s directive to take over Sowore’s case from the Department of state service (DSS). The Attorney-General of the Federation, (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on Friday directed the Department of State Service, (DSS) to handover the case file of the convener … Read more
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), has taken over the case against the #RevolutionNow protests convener, Omoyele Sowore, from the Department of State Services. A statement by the minister’s Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Dr. Umar Gwandu, confirmed this on Friday. The statement referred to December … Read more