•Omoyele Sowore (middle, with eye glasses) in court today Online publisher and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has withdrawn his plan to call the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Adeola Ajayi, as a witness in his ongoing trial over the alleged criminal defamation of Presid...
•Sowore and Tinubu Justice Mohammed Garuba Umar of the Federal High Court in Abuja has rejected the bid by online publisher and presidential candidate of the of the African Alliance Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, to tender uncertified documents in his trial for allegedly defaming President Bola Tinubu. The judge today refused the bid when Sow...
•Omoyele Sowore Justice Mohammed Umar of the Federal High Court in Abuja has rejected an application by the presidential candidate of the African Action Alliance (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, seeking a lengthy adjournment in his trial over alleged cyberbullying of President Bola Tinubu, a case instituted against him by the Department of State Service...
•Omoyele Sowore and Tinubu The Department of State Services (DSS) has requested that a Federal High Court in Abuja orders that the presidential candidate of African Action Congress (AAC) and online publisher, Omoyele Sowore, be returned to prison custody over his inability to meet the conditions attached to the bail granted him. The DSS is [&h...
•Omoyele Sowore and Police logo Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has stated that his repeated arrests and imprisonment are not merely a consequence of recent political disagreements but part of what he described as decades-long campaign by Nigeria’s ruling elite to silence him. Speaking during an int...
•Sowore (C) in court Justice Mohammed Umar of the Federal High Court in Abuja has granted a ₦200 million bail to the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) and publisher, Omoyele Sowore, who is facing alleged cybercrime charges. In a ruling today, Justice Umar ordered Sowore to produce two sureties. One of the […]...
•Omoyele Sowore Nigerian workers under the aegis of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) have condemned what it described as the “inhuman treatment” of activist and publisher, Omoyele Sowore, by operatives of the Department of State Services at the Federal High Court in Abuja, warning that such actions pose a threat to democratic institutions. In...
•Omoyele Sowore Justice Mohammed Umar of the Federal High Court, Abuja, fixed June 30 for ruling on a motion filed by Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), seeking to vacate an order for his bail revocation. Justice Umar fixed the date after Sowore’s lawyer, Raphael Adakole, moved the motion for [&hel...
Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS), has ordered an internal investigation into the conduct of its operatives following a controversial incident in which activist and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, was forcibly removed from a courtroom. The move comes amid growing public scrutiny and criticism from l...
•Omoyele Sowore Remand of activist and publisher, Omoyele Sowore, in Kuje Prison has triggered fresh concerns about the state of civil liberties in Nigeria. The concerns were raised by the Presidential Candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi; Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP); the Aare Ona Kakanfo o...

