Omoyele Sowore, Convener of #RevolutionNow protests, who is presently in detention, on Friday, approached the Federal High Court, Abuja, seeking an order to vacate the ex parte order that gave the Department of State Service the legal backing to detain him for 45 days.
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The body condemned the Federal Government for disrupting the planned protest, saying it was not intended to upset its agenda.
The position of Afenifere was contained in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, on Thursday.
Sambo, in a statement, he personally signed and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Kaduna disowned the Facebook account.
SERAP also raised: “Concern over suppression of freedom of expression, attacks on journalists, bloggers, and human rights defenders by several state governments, as well as the intimidation and harassment of Amnesty International in Nigeria, including by a group of apparently paid protesters that continues to besiege the organization’s office in Abuja, preventing it from carrying out its activities, and giving the organization ultimatum to leave Nigeria.”
The detention order of the Publisher of Sahara Reporters was based on the request of the Department of State Services to further detain the convener of #RevolutionNow
The Nigeria Labour Congress has urged the Federal Government to release Omoyele Sowore and 26 other protesters arrested on account of the #RevolutionNow protest on Monday.
Martins made the plea on Wednesday in Lagos while reacting to the ongoing agitations for better living conditions for Nigerians, urging the government to ensure protection of their lives and property.
“The #RevolutionNow protest led by Omoyele Sowore. The security people grabbed him ahead of the August 5 protests, but the Grand Coalition for Security and Democracy still came out in full force in Lagos and Abuja.”
An Abuja Federal High Court will, on Thursday, rule in the application filed by the Department of State Service seeking an order to detain Omoyele Sowore, the African Action Congress’s presidential candidate in the 2019 elections, for 90 days pending the conclusion of its investigation.
The Nations Correspondent in Calabar, Nicholas Kalu, arrested over the foiled #RevolutionNow protest in Calabar has regained freedom.
A former Politics Editor at Daily Trust newspaper, Ibrahim Dan-Halilu, has been arrested by the Department of State Services in Kaduna for allegedly supporting the activities of #RevolutionNow in a Facebook post.
The correspondent of the Nations Newspaper in Calabar, Nicholas Kalu, was on Monday arrested at the Cultural Center, Calabar, venue of the #RevolutionNow protest in the state.
Sporting activities at the Kwara Stadium Complex, Ilorin in the early hours of Monday were put to a halt with the presence of heavily armed men of the Nigeria Police.
Heavily armed security operatives from the Police Command in Lagos, the Army and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps have barricaded the entrance to the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos ahead of the #RevolutionNow protest spearheaded by Omoyele Sowore on Monday.
The Department of State Services has called on Nigerians to disregard threat of revolution by Omoyele Sowore.