Tag: Sowore
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Court to hear Sowore, Bakare’s N1bn suits against DSS boss, AGF March 25
The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, fixed March 25 for the hearing of the N1bn fundamental rights enforcement suit instituted by activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, and Olawale Bakare, over their alleged illegal detention prior to their release in December 2019. Sowore and Bakare, who are being prosecuted by the…
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BREAKING: Court fixes March 11 for trial of Sowore, Bakare
The trial of Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare, on amended charges of treasonable felony and conspiracy, was again stalled on Thursday at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The defendants were rearraigned on Thursday but could not proceed to trial as scheduled on the basis that the prosecution had yet…
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FG re-arraigns Sowore for ‘treason’
The federal government has re-arraigned Omoyele Sowore, convener of #RevolutionNow Movement, on a two-count charge of treasonable felony. At the court on Thursday, Aminu Alilu, the prosecution counsel, asked that the previous seven-count charge, which was filed in September 2019, be substituted with an amended charge. Upon re-arraignment, Sowore and Olawale Bakare, his co-defendant, pleaded…