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Robert Menendez Senator from New Jersey has condemned the treatment of Sowore and the buhari administration.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM5npYAmQUk

Current US Senator and presidential aspirant Cory Booker commented on his twitter handle about the on going treatment of Sahara reporters Sowore in Nigeria. See tweet below:

Praise God. Please next time make sure you harm him very well

when you have cow brain people running the country. why wont the debt increase. they borrow money and then pocket the money. and in debt 180 million people

NEXT LEVEL

this is why Buhari flies to london to get treated. Sowore called for protest, and nobody did anything we are not ready

IPOB should have held them there.. the family that is oppressing 250 million

celebrating mediocrity. lets see how long the power lasts..

Serious country’s have 24/hr electricity that controls the traffic lights.. oh yea they also have good roads. I have never seen an American governor control traffic before. When will we get sense

american politicians drive american made cars, british drive british made, germany drives german made, but in nigeria, our brains dont work correctly. congrats to this lady for gaining some sense.

IPOB should have caught him there.. mstheww

mstheww.."most beautiful ko"

ok sir... we hear you

may he die an untimely death..

Nigerians are successful everywhere but Nigeria

the guy got money from buhari to rig, kill and destroy. igala did not vote for him at all inec, buhari and bello all know how he won.

bakescos01:
I don’t think the Igala people mess up that much. There was a lot of shooting and vote snatching all around. Helicopter dropping tear gas and turning election to war. People won’t go out to vote because of such intimidation. Sometimes the wise thing to do is to live to fight another day.

guy shut up... you are very foolish for saying that

HacheNoire:
Victoria Ascerta!

God bless His Excellence, Governor Yahaya Bello

God bless Kogi State

God bless The Federal Republic of Nigeria

Cameroon go soon claim that one too

They should just burn down that Abuja house..

America is trying to send men to mars. Nigeria is trying to ban human beings from speaking. hahah

By your comment i can tell that you live in a backwards society. calling for a revolution is not a crime in any western country yet alone any sane country in the world. please free yourself from mental slavery. because you are part of the problem.

iamJ:
He called for a revolution


That's a very big crime



Such language deserve such treatment

The author of this article, ignored this

The Washington post released an article condemning Muhammadu Buhari today over the continued detention of Sahara Reporter's Omoyele sowore. See article below:

With the arrest of a prominent journalist, Nigeria’s Buhari is up to his old tricks

Political strongmen would have you believe they’re tough as nails, but they always turn out to have very thin skin.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari likes to call himself a “converted democrat.” At least that’s what he said during his 2015 presidential run, when he was attempting to re-brand himself as a reformer after a long career built on repression.

Yet dictatorial habits have proved hard to give up. When Buhari ran for president in 2015, it was with the promise of a Nigeria free from the political repression and silencing of dissent that were hallmarks of his tenure as head of state from 1983 to 1985.

Since his reelection earlier this year, matters have only gotten worse for journalists in Nigeria. Perhaps the most outrageous case involves Omoyele Sowore, a prominent journalist and political activist who remains in prison in Abuja, the Nigerian capital — even after a judge last week ordered that he be released on bail. He is being cited, among other things, for “cyberstalking” the president — a bizarre accusation, unless you consider reporting and political commentary a form of predatory behavior. It would seem that Buhari does.

“Across the board, journalists were worried about an escalation of anti-press patterns in a possible second Buhari term,” says Jonathan Rozen, senior Africa researcher at the Committee to Protect Journalists. “Unfortunately, they’ve been proven right.”

In a Nov. 7 statement, Femi Felana, Sowore’s lawyer, said that, although bail conditions were “stringent,” his client had met them all. “But in utter contempt of the orders of Justice Ojukwu, the State Security Service has refused to release Sowore.”

Sowore, the founder of the New York-based website Sahara Reporters, is being charged with seven felony counts, including treason and the “cyberstalking” of Buhari. Whatever that means. “In Nigeria, we see repeated attacks against journalists and the use of alleged cyber crimes to silence them,” Rozen told me.

Sowore created Sahara Reporters — which is devoted to political coverage of Nigeria — in 2006. His aim was to bring greater transparency to Nigerian politics. The website is credited with breaking many stories of financial corruption by the state, which is what landed Sowore behind bars this time around. In a media landscape known for being vibrant if heavily influenced by political elites, Sahara Reporters has become one of the key sources for news that exposes official wrongdoing.

Sowore came to the United States in the late 1990s. Before leaving Nigeria, he’d been detained on eight separate occasions for his political activities. After arriving here, he completed a graduate program at Columbia University.

“It is not so much a problem of freedom of speech,” Sowore told the New York Times in 2011, “but freedom after speech. You can say a lot of things in Nigeria, but the question is: Will you still be a free person? Will you still be alive after you freely express yourself?”

This year he returned to run against Buhari in the election. He did not win and instead ended up in prison for being a vocal critic of the state and its policies.

“My husband is not the only journalist in this situation. It’s always the same thing. They’ve taken others for speaking out against corruption,” Opeyemi Sowore, the jailed journalist’s wife, told me. “It’s a disturbing trend when journalists and others who are trying to make the country better are silenced through detention.”

The judge in the case this month set bail at more than $550,000, with additional conditions, barring Omoyele Sowore from speaking to the press, participating in rallies at other political events and barring him from leaving the capital, Abuja.

Sowore was originally set to be released last Wednesday, but his website reported that agents of Nigeria’s secret police blocked court bailiffs from following through on the judge’s order.

His wife and their two children, a 12-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son, who live in the New York area and are all U.S.-born citizens, have not heard from the journalist since August when Opeyemi Sowore did a radio interview here in the United States.

All indications are that Sowore has been held in solitary confinement during the entire period of his detention, which has now passed the three-month mark.

“Since the State Security Service is not above the law of the land, we shall embark on appropriate legal measures to ensure compliance with the court orders,” Falana said.

Nigerian authorities should immediately release Sowore.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/12/with-arrest-prominent-journalist-nigerias-buhari-is-up-his-old-tricks/

the president (Abba Kyari) with his puppet buhari. nothing new here

zombie buhari

im sure he has pocketed 50% f the money for the project. very soon they would abandon it. or run out of funds

Old fools club

the point of the matter is that their society is nice enough to the point where the prime minister has the option to ride his bike to work if he wanted to. also why do we have to leave iceland and greece and netherlands out of this. how are they different from us. do they have two heads? stop excusing you mediocrity and wake up and face the facts. you sound like the idiot by the way

Rosskiki:
OP, if YOU were elected president of Nigeria tomorrow, would YOU ride a bicycle to work? That is the question. Leave Netherlands or Greece or Iceland out of it. What would YOU do?

Idiot.

Read article in below link

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/09/why-i-ride-my-bike-to-work-by-the-prime-minister-of-the-netherlands?fbclid=IwAR1c-lZdnAQkLXi1VCKxQ_9uan3vSwPsSq7PstL7cPh7w7N2gYRIlOqZPwM

Let me start by saying that Sweden, Norway, and other Scandinavian countries are atheist countries. They don't even believe in God, yet they are prosperous, happy, and have high life expectancy. The people from these countries, don't have "Men of God" that lay hands on them, or prophesy on them, or collect tithes from them, or binds generational curses that are tormenting them. Scandinavian countries don't expect miracles to happen, or wait for God to fix their countries etc.

Nigeria has a religion problem. All our politicians are strong Christians or strong Muslims, yet our country is a shit hole. when is comes to stealing money, religion seems to all of a sudden vanish. 99 percent of the problems facing Nigerians are not spiritual problem but rather physical. The reason you haven't gotten a job since graduation, has nothing to do with somebody tying down your destiny in the village. it has everything to do with the fact that your elected leaders are irresponsible, unimaginative, and are not doing what it takes to improve the socioeconomic conditions of the country. Prayer will NOT save Nigeria but rather action.

Lets not forget that after the children of Israel prayed for liberation from Egypt, God sent Moses to Pharaoh( the political figure head) to "let his people go." Freedom comes through Government and not mere prayers. Even after pharaoh granted them freedom, They had to WALK to the Canaan land. God could have "miraculously" transported them to Canaan. He could have sent chariots of fire to pick them up and take them to Canaan. But he didn't. They Walked. Nigerians depend on miracle too much, and are now unwilling to WALK. There will be no miraculous job if you don't fill out job applications. There will be no miraculous car if you are unwilling to work hard and save money to buy a car.

I know of a man in the 90s that always sang in church "i am a millionaire, i am a millionaire in Jesus name" That man is dead now. He never became a millionaire. Or maybe he became a millionaire "spiritually". But in this reality that we live in, he amounted to nothing. Lets not forget that we have been praying for Nigeria 60 years since independence. The situation has deteriorated in many cases. We are still praying however and waiting on God to deliver us. If we pray for another 60 years, Nigeria will not change. One could argue that Prayer and church are in many ways detrimental to Nigeria. Rather than channeling our anger and frustration to the rightful authorities, we get pacified in the churches, and are given false hope of a better tomorrow or a better afterlife in heaven.

Martin Luther King was also a pastor. But rather than collecting tithes, laying hands on the sick, and doing "miracles" he preached to black people that were oppressed in America. He then followed it up with a "direct action" campaign where black people went out and marched, and demanded that the laws be changed to make life better for African Americans. Today you want to get Visa to go to to America without understanding that if Martin Luther King didn't protest 40-50 years ago, your dream of going to america would not even be possible. The Greatest miracle i believe is political change. not that nonsense TB Joshua does.

All prophets in the Bible came and challenged the political power that existed at the time. David challenged Saul, Jesus challenged Herod, Pilate, and the Romans, Elijah challenged Jezebel, Moses challenged Pharaoh. Go and read your bible very well. you will see that the prophet is supposed to challenge the oppressive political institutions that exist in the land and make conditions here on earth a little similar to conditions in heaven. Thus the lords prayer says "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven".

If you have a pastor that isn't politically active, that doesn't lead marches, but is in bed with corrupt politicians, that gives up his alter(Oyedepo) for corrupt politicians to speak and campaign. if you have a pastor that tells you to pray instead of fight, that tells you to wait for God instead of getting what is yours now, That tells you to pay your tithes and not question where the money is going, then you are a FOOL. What that pastor is in essence telling you is that you don't deserve electricity, good schools, good roads, hospitals, employment etc.

Over 4 years ago, Oyedepo prayed on stage and cursed Boko haram (Video is on youtube)). its 2019 and did his cursing stop Boko haram? did they mysteriously die in sambisa forrest? Be real with yourself, the prayers you have been praying for Nigeria, has it worked? if your answer is No then i suggest you change tactics. The people holding the destiny of Nigeria are the president, the governors, the senators etc. those are the people that you need to demand change from. Not an old woman you accuse of tying your destiny, not household wickedness, not a babalawo somewhere. Nigerians Please wake up. STOP praying and start acting

welcome development

In this video, a man who identified himself as Yinusa Gabriel was seen describing the worrisome State of a primary school in Dekina LGA of Kogi State.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrTIpo9GWDg