Isah Mokwa, a master’s degree student at Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, and an ardent critic of Niger State governor Umar Bago’s administration, has reportedly been taken by the Nigerian police in his home in Lapai and taken to the police headquarters in Minna. The arrest comes after Mokwa allegedly referred to Bago as “Governor […]

Heavy security presence has been observed in Kuje, Abuja, as the Nigeria Police mounted at least five checkpoints leading to the court where human rights activist and SaharaReporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, is expected to be arraigned. It was observed that an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) was also stationed at a strategic location around the area

The Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Ìgbìnmó Májékóbájé Ilé-Yorùbá, has condemned the arrest of human rights activist, journalist, and former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore, by security operatives allegedly acting on the orders of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In a statement released on Friday and signed by the Union’s Convener, Olusola Badero, through its Home Director, Princess Balogun,

Others are Aloy Ejimakor, counsel for the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu; his brother, Prince Emmanuel Kanu and 11 others. A Magistrate Court sitting in Kuje, Abuja, has granted bail to human rights activist and publisher of SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, alongside several protesters arrested during the #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest in