Sowore Regains Freedom

Omoyele Sowore, the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, has regained freedom, Nigeriancablenewsonline.com can report.

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) detaining Sowore at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Sunday.

It was gathered that following Sowore’s detention by the Immigration Service at the airport over a watchlist of the secret police, Department of State Service (DSS), it seized his passport and contacted the DSS.

It held the activist while it contacted the DSS and awaited ‘an order from above’.

Sowore was arrested and detained at the airport on Sunday immediately upon his arrival in Nigeria.

“I have just been released. My passport and everything have been returned to me,” Sowore said, after his release. 

Nigeriancablenewsonline.com earlier reported how sowore was arrested at his arrival in the airport.

Sowore had been in the United States.

His flight left the Washington Dulles International Airport at 6.14 EDT and arrived in Lagos at around 9.43 WAT.