Premium Times, one of Nigeria’s investigative online news mediums, has lashed out at a national daily in the country.

The Nation Newspaper earned the attack of the online medium when it published a story reporting the intention of the federal government to file a petition of judicial misconduct against the Justice Taiwo Taiwo, who granted Omoyele Sowore, the detained leader of the RevolutionNow Movement bail.

Mr Sowore, who publishes Sahara Reporters was granted bail after the 45-day detention order granted to the Department of State Services (DSS) elapsed on September 21.

He has since remained in the custody of the DSS despite meeting his bail conditions. The security agency which earlier claimed not to have been serve the order of the court, chased away the court bailiff who, alongside the legal counsels of the publisher, went to serve them the order of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.

After the report was published by the newspaper, the online medium while analysing the story said it was meant to: deliberately misinform and mislead the reading public; justify the unwarranted and irresponsible disobedience of the court order granting Omoyele Sowore bail and frustrate the prospect of his being granted a post charge and arraignment bail should he be arraigned on the seven count charge of treasonable felony, fraud and insulting President Muhammadu Buhari.

Premium Times also said the story is meant to “intimidate, harass and embarrass Justice Taiwo Taiwo, who acted appropriately, judicially and very judiciously in granting Omoyele Sowore bail, upon the expiration of the 45 days he had previously granted the SSS to detain and investigate Omoyele Sowore regarding the criminal allegations made against him.

“By the story, very sadly, the Nation Newspaper has lent its journalistic weight to the waging of a psychological warfare on a judge for doing nothing other than performing his judicial functions and exercising his judicial powers under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as amended,” it said in the analysis published on its website.

Earlystar698:
u hear

Jayslicky:
This government is planning ways to make sowore sentenced to jail by all means, anyone that comes in their way will be crushed. Newspapers publishers should stay neutral in this to avoid trouble.

Stay neutral or report the truth

If they stay neutral, when it's their turn, who will speak for them