Omoyele Sowore

  • Sowore: Court asks DSS to release the activist from jail

    Justice Taiwo Taiwo on Tuesday ordered asked the Department of State Service to release Omoyele Sowore on bail. The judge made the ruling after listening to the argument of Sowore’s lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) and the prosecuting counsel. The judge, as part of bail conditions, asked Sowore to drop his passport with the court within…

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  • Women go nude in support of detained activist, Omoyele Sowore

    A federal high court sitting in Abuja has declined to hear the motion filed by Sowore as the court referred the matter back to the vacation judge Justice Taiwo Taiwo. Justice Nkweonye Maha said she did not have the jurisdiction to review the decision by Justice Taiwo Taiwo, and noted that the ruling of the…

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  • Sowore: ARO to hold protest at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington

    A group, African Renaissance Organisation, has sent a petition to the United States Department of State over the continued detention of rights activist, Omoyele Sowore. Sowore was arrested on August 3, 2019 by operatives of the Department of State Services for urging Nigerians to pour out to the streets and protest bad leadership in the…

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