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Nigeria: Court Returns Sowore to DSS Custody
This Day, 1 October 2019
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja yesterday ordered the remand of detained Convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore in the custody of the Department… Read more »
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Nigeria: Sowore Spends Night in Jail Despite Fulfiling Bail Conditions
Premium Times, 26 September 2019
The Nigerian government is yet to release the detained publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, despite receiving an affidavit of compliance to the court order directing his… Read more »
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Nigeria: Lawyers, Family Members Keep Vigil At DSS Over Sowore's Release
This Day, 26 September 2019
Lawyers to the detained Convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore and family members were last night keeping vigil at the headquarters of the Department of State Services… Read more »
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Nigeria: Sowore Meets Bail Conditions
Premium Times, 25 September 2019
The Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, has fulfilled the bail conditions given by the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday for his release. Read more »
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Nigeria: Why Sowore Has Not Been Freed Despite Court Order - Lawyer
Premium Times, 25 September 2019
A lawyer representing the detained publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, has given a reason why Mr Sowore is yet to be free, despite being granted bail by a court on… Read more »
#RevolutionNow Activist Granted Bail, But Still in Custody
Former Nigerian presidential candidate and political activist Omoyele Sowore has been granted bail but remains in custody. The Federal High Court has ruled that there is no extant order allowing Sowore's further detention by the State Security Service. Sowore was arrested in early August for organising anti-government protests under the slogan #RevolutionNow. He is facing charges of treason, money laundering and insulting the president.
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Nigeria: Court Orders Immediate Release of Sowore
Premium Times, 24 September 2019
The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the immediate release of the detained publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore. Read more »
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Nigeria: Sowore - CISLAC Demands Immediate Adherence to Court Order
Vanguard, 25 September 2019
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, yesterday demanded total respect for the rule of law in view of the new order by the Federal High Court in Abuja. Read more »
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Nigeria: #RevolutionNow - Nigerians React to Sowore's Bail
Premium Times, 24 September 2019
Reactions have been trailing the release of Nigerian activist and Sahara Reporters' Publisher, Omoyele Sowore, from the detention of the State Security Service (SSS) following a… Read more »
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Nigeria: Sowore's Alleged Offence Attracts Capital Punishment - Govt
Premium Times, 24 September 2019
The Nigerian government has told the Federal High Court that the charges against the detained publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, attract "capital punishment", in an… Read more »
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Nigeria: Treason - DSS Arraigns Sowore Today
Leadership, 24 September 2019
The Directorate of State Services (DSS) will today arraign the Convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore before an Abuja division of the Federal High Court. Read more »
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Nigeria: Sowore Alleges Maltreatment By State Services
This Day, 24 September 2019
The co-convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr.Omoyele Sowore, who has been in the detention of the Department of State Services (DSS) since August 3, 2019, has accused the DSS of… Read more »
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Nigeria: Nigerian Govt Set to Arraign Sowore - Selects Witnesses
Premium Times, 23 September 2019
The Nigerian government has selected five witnesses to testify against the detained publisher and activist, Omoyele Sowore, at his trial scheduled to begin on Tuesday. Read more »
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Nigeria: Buhari Govt At 'Unprecedented Level of Paranoia' - Soyinka
Premium Times, 21 September 2019
The Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has sternly rebuked the Buhari administration after it filed charges of treason against the detained publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele… Read more »
InFocus
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A storm of protest - and support - has erupted over a decision by the Federal High Court in Abuja to authorise the detention of the convener of #RevolutionNow protests, Omoyele ... Read more »
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A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the Department of State Service an application to detain Omoyele Sowore in order to conclude its investigation. Sowore was arrested for ... Read more »
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State Security Services has asked a federal high court to grant it permission to detain the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, for 90 days. He was arrested for calling ... Read more »
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Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has dismissed calls for protests, saying the days of coups and revolution are long gone. This comes after state security agents arrested ... Read more »
