Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Femi Falana has called on President Bola Tinubu and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) to withdraw cybercrime charges filed against activist and journalist Omoyele Sowore by the Nigerian police. In a letter dated March 4, 2025, and received by the AGF’s office on March 5, Falana ...

The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted former presidential candidate and activist, Omoyele Sowore, bail set at ₦10 million, following his arrest and detention over alleged cybercrime charges. Sowore, who was arraigned on Wednesday, pleaded not guilty to 17 counts related to cybercrime as filed by the Nigerian Police Force. Justice Musa Liman, ruling ...

  The cybercrimes trial of activist Omoyele Sowore attracted prominent figures and supporters to the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, where he was scheduled to be arraigned by the Nigerian police. Among those present were former senator Shehu Sani, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President Afam Osigwe, Country Director of ActionAid Nigeria, Andrew Mamedu, ...

  The President of Otu Oka-Iwu, Chief Chidi Udekwe, Esq. has responded to Omoyele Sowore’s recent statement to be careful of Igbos. In a press statement made available to The Metro Lawyer (TML) news desk, Udekwe stated as follows: “Our attention has been drawn to a statement credited to the former African Action Congress (AAC) ...

    Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, along with two lawyers, Uchenna Oriji and Ogbonna Arochukwu, is facing a N150 million defamation lawsuit at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The suit, marked CV/3980/2024, accuses them of publishing false and harmful information against fellow lawyer Nkemakolam Okoro, damaging his reputation. ...

Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), says Nigerians will beg him to stay beyond the constitutional limit of two terms in office if he becomes president. Sowore spoke on Wednesday during an interview on Channels Television. Speaking on the naira redesign, Sowore said the funds used for redesigning the naira ...

A movement restriction on human rights activist and convener of Revolution Now, Omoyele Sowore was on Wednesday April 12, lifted by a court of Appeal in Abuja. The media personality was in 2019, barred from leaving Abuja by a Federal High Court after being dragged to court on charges of treasonable felony and cyberstalking the ...

Human rights lawyer and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has faulted the Nigeria Police Force over the arrest of an Abuja based legal practitioner, Abubakar Marshall. Marshall, a lawyer to activist Omoyele Sowore, was arrested on Friday by the FCT Police Command for failing to produce his client. But in a statement ...

In the criminal charge marked: CR/345/2021, Mr. KeneChukwu Okeke complained to the Magistrate that the publication was intended to lower his estimation before right-thinking members of the society and to expose him to hatred, contempt and ridicule.

Sowore posted, “My immediate younger brother, Olajide Sowore was today shot and killed near Okada in Edo state by reportedly herdsmen/kidnappers on his way from Igbinedion University in Edo State where he is studying Pharmacy.

Sahara Reporters Publisher, Omoyele Sowore, and others who were arrested during a protest at the Federal High Court, Abuja have been released.

The protracted case of Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare has highlighted, yet again, the primitive retaliatory tyrannical justice system of General Muhammadu Buhari’s despotic regime.