Omoyele Sowore arrested at Lagos airport on arrival in Nigeria

Sahara Reporters publisher and Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 election, Omoyele Sowore, has been arrested as he arrived Murtala Muhammad International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria, around 9.43 am on Sunday. On Thursday, 12 September 2024, a DSS memo ordering the arrest of Sowore upon his arrival in […]

Continue Reading

Nigerian govt buys a $150million Presidential Jet, ready for delivery ―Omoyele Sowore alleges

Publisher of Sahara Reporters, activist and Nigerian politician, Omoyele Sowore, has alleged that the Nigerian government has purchased an Airbus A330 Presidential Jet worth $150 million. According to him, the jet, an A330-200 initially christened VP-CAC was registered as 5N-FGA. He shared a photo of the said jet on his Instagram page, yelesho and wrote: […]

Continue Reading

Nigerian govt withdraws treasonable felony case against Omoyele Sowore

Nigerian government has applied to withdraw the treasonable felony charge that the former President Muhammadu Buhari-led government filed against a civil rights activist and convener of the #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, in 2019. Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, in a letter dated February 14, which he wrote […]

Continue Reading

Tinubu wants to buy a “Presidential Yacht” for N5billion ―Omoyele Sowore

A presidential candidate in the 2023 Nigerian elections and Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore has accused President Bola Tinubu of moves to purchase a “Presidential Yacht” for the sum of N5billion. Sowore made this accusation on his X (Twitter) handle. He wrote: “The @officialABAT  dynasty of thieves! They want to buy a “Presidential Yacht” for […]

Continue Reading

Omoyele Sowore, 4 others remanded in Kuje prison custody

A Magistrate’s Court sitting in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, Nigeria, has ordered the remand of Sahara Reporters Publisher, former presidential candidate and convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, and four other activists in Kuje Correctional Centre pending the hearing of their formal bail applications. Sowore and the four others, – Juwon Sanyaolu, Damilare Adenola, […]

Continue Reading

Some persons have become billionaires from #EndSARS negotiations ―Omoyele Sowore says

Politician, activist and publisher of online newspaper, Sahara Reporters, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, has alleged that some persons have become billionaires from negotiating on how they can put an end to the #EndSARS protests nationwide. Omoyele said this in a tweet posted on Wednesday, October 14, while reacting to reports that business leaders and some social […]

Continue Reading

Omoyele Sowore: Portrait of A Life in Protest, By Reuben Abati

The mishandling of the Omoyele Sowore case has become clearly an albatross for the Nigerian government, an embarrassment for the incumbent Federal Government and a public relations disaster for both the Department of State Services and Nigeria as a whole. All of that was patently avoidable. Inadvertently, the Federal Government has turned Omoyele Sowore into […]

Continue Reading

Omoyele Sowore, another admitted to bail in stringent conditions

Nigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday, admitted the publisher of Sahara Reporters and convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore to bail. The presiding judge, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu granted bail to Sowore in the sum of N100m with two sureties in like sum. The sureties who must be resident in Abuja must […]

Continue Reading

Omoyele Sowore: Nigeria’s Wrong Prisoner, By Niyi Osundare

The 2015 general elections had just ended, with Nigeria’s ‘achievement’ of an unprecedented transition from one civilian government to another. The losers were beginning to lick their wounds, while the gladiators in the winning party were busy strategising for the ways and means of cornering the juiciest portions of the spoils from the just-concluded electoral […]

Continue Reading

Omoyele Sowore, AAC lead ‘Days of Rage’ revolution protests in Nigeria

African Action Congress (AAC) has declared 5th August for the commencement of revolution protest tagged ‘Days of Rage’ across the country to demand a better Nigeria. The former presidential candidate of the party, Omoyele Sowore, disclosed this on Saturday in Abuja at the end of the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party. He […]

Continue Reading

Olukoya files fresh N2bn suit against Sahara Reporters/Omoyele Sowore

General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire & Miracles Ministries (MFM), Dr. D.K. Olukoya, has filed a N2 billion suit against Sahara Reporters Publisher Mr. Omoyele Sowore for defamation of character. In the suit filed before the High Court of Akwa Ibom State, Uyo, Sahara Reporters Incorporation and Objective Media Group Limited were listed as the 2nd and 3rd defendants. The […]

Continue Reading