(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court in Kano has set aside a ruling of the FCT High Court suspending the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole. Justice Lewis Alagoa who ordered that the status quo ante Bellum be maintained. The judge added that pending the hearing of the motion on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The federal government of Nigeria has finally bowed to Pressure and ordered the immediate release of former National Security Adviser (NSA), retired Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki , and the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Mr Omoyele Sowore from detention. The Minister of Justice and Attorney- General of the Federation (AGF), Mr Abubakar Malami, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court in Abuja has withdrawn from the fundamental rights enforcement suit instituted by the #RevolutionNow protests convener, Mr. Omoyele Sowore. Sowore is seeking an order for his release from the custody of the Department of State Service (DSS). There have not been fresh charges instituted against Sowore since […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke (SAN), has been arrested in Abuja. Reports said the former AGF’s lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) hinted in a short message hinted that his client was arrested Thursday moments after the aircraft which he boarded from Dubai, the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The hierarchy of the Department of State Services has invited the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Newsdiary online, Danlami Nmodu, to the headquarters of the Agency in Abuja for questioning. A DSS operative who called Danlami by telephone on Wednesday morning, said the invitation was with respect to a story recently published on the Kano […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) on Friday re-arrested the convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore, and his co-defendant Olawale Bakare inside courtroom African Examiner gathered that they are currently being detained at the DSS office in Abuja even as they are yet to disclose the reason for the re-arrest. Reports say […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Department of State Services has released rights activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the February 2019 general elections, Mr. Omoyele Sowore. The Department also released Mr Adebayo Bakare. They were freed hours after Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court in Abuja had given the DSS […]