LAWMA seals market over poor sanitation (Punch) The Lagos Waste Management Authority, on Thursday, sealed Ire-Akari Market in the Isolo area of Lagos over poor sanitation. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s Senior Special Assistant on New Media, Jubril Gawat, disclosed this on…
PDP, the Furious Five governors and dark clouds — Magnus Onyibe
I am of the conviction that no pundit had envisaged that the current chasm in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP would grow from a mere rift into a crisis of the monumental dimension that it has assumed. Usually, after party…
Falana, Sowore, others storm Gani Fawehinmi memorial Monday
Human rights lawyer and activist, Femi Falana, SAN, would be joining the presidential candidates of the African Action Congress, and the Social Democratic Party, Omoyele Sowore and Adewole Adebayo respectively, and a host of others to storm the memorial to…
Court lifts movement restriction on Sowore
A Court of Appeal in Abuja has, on Wednesday, lifted the movement restriction on human rights activist and convener of Revolution Now, Omoyele Sowore. Sowore was, in 2019, restricted to Abuja by a federal high court following charges of treasonable…
Unwholesome resort to consensus for producing candidates for 2023 elections -Magnus Onyibe
Despite the huddle placed on the path of political actors via section 84 clause (9) in Electoral Act 2022, which demands that for a consensus process of election in political parties to be deemed legitimate, it must be consented to…
Sowore’s younger brother shot dead, Edo police confirm killing, finger kidnappers
Olajide, the younger brother of Sahara Reporters’ publisher and human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has been killed. Sowore reportedly made the announcement in a Facebook post on Saturday, according to multiple reports. The activist said his brother was killed by…
Sowore regains freedom after arrest at Nnamdi Kanu trial
Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, says he has been released after he was arrested at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday. Sowore and other supporters of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), were in…
*Falana, Falz, others protest insecurity, poverty in Lagos (Punch)*Lagos-Ibadan rail: FG assures host communities of assistance (Guardian)
Falana, Falz, others protest insecurity, poverty in Lagos (Punch) Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), and his Musician son, Folarin, aka Falz, along with scores of Lagosians took to the streets on Monday to protest against the insecurity and…
Nothing must happen to Sowore -Adegboruwa
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has warned that nothing must happen to #RevolutionNow activist, Omoyele Sowore. The human rights lawyer said this after reports that Sowore was injured by a tear gas canister shot by a police…