Activist Omoyele Sowore has been remanded in Kuje Correctional Centre by an Abuja Magistrate Court. He was remanded alongside four others for leading a protest against bad governance in Nigeria on the eve of New Year. Police had arrested them in Abuja where the protest was staged and on Monday morning arraigned them before the
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Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has said that a former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, in the 2019 Presidential election, and Sahara Reporters Publisher, Omoyele Sowore has asked him to sue the Nigerian Police for torturing and violating his fundamental human right. Sowore was arrested along with his friends for
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EndSARS protesters on Thursday pushed out the convener of the #RevolutionNow Movement, Omoyele Sowore, from one of their rallies in Lagos. In a video that has gone viral on social media, Sowore, who is standing trial for alleged treason at the Federal High Court, Abuja, was pushed out by the protesters who asked him to
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The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, says the Federal Government has ordered an investigation into the Friday invasion of the Federal High Court, Abuja, by the operatives of the Department of State Service. The DSS, in an attempt to re-arrest the RevolutionNow convener, Omoyele Sowore, had invaded the court,
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A coalition of civil society organizations has petitioned the United States to protest the re-arrest of the convener of the #RevolutionNow protests, Omoyele Sowore, by operatives of the Department of State Services at a Federal High Court in Abuja. The groups, during a protest to the US embassy in Abuja, submitted a petition to the American
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The Presidency, Sunday, said the detained RevolutionNow leader Omoyele Sowore, is a person of interest to the Department of State Services (DSS), which does not need the permission of President Muhammadu Buhari to do its work whenever it needs to act. Presidency noted that Sowore’s antecedents and actions ordinarily make him a person of interest
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Bob Menendez, a Senator of the United States of America, representing New Jersey, has condemned the actions of the Nigeria Department of State Services (DSS) for re-arresting Omoyele Sowore, the RevolutionNow protest leader. Menendez in a video addressing the world press conference with Sowore’s wife said; “He (Sowore) was released by a court order. He
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Chaos as DSS storm courtroom to rearrest Sowore
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