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Sowore In Police Headquarters For Interrogation Over Lagos Airport Road Extortion Video
Sowore In Police Headquarters For Interrogation Over Lagos Airport Road Extortion Video
Sowore in police headquarters for interrogation over Lagos airport road extortion video. Omoyele Sowore, the convener of the Revolution Now Movement and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), has arrived at the Force Headquarters in Abuja to honour police invitation.
Sowore arrived the police headquarters around 9.45 am on Monday, with his lawyer and some supporters.
The Nigeria Police Force had summoned Sowore for questioning following a viral video he recorded, highlighting alleged extortion by police officers on the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Access Road in Lagos.
The invitation, dated January 23, 2025, was signed by CP Ibitoye Rufus Alajide on behalf of the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Force Intelligence Department (FID).
The invitation letter read, “This office is investigating case of resisting and obstructing public officers, disobedience to lawful order, acts intended to cause grievous harm or prevent arrest, compelling action by intimidation, reckless & negligent acts, refusal to assist public servant and cyberstalking in which your name featured, prominently,” the letter reads.
According to the letter, Sowore was directed to report to Room 212 of the FID Complex, opposite Force Headquarters in Abuja, at 10 a.m. The letter emphasized that the invitation was within the police’s constitutional investigative powers, and Sowore was informed of his right to bring legal representation.
The video at the center of the controversy, shared widely on social media, shows Sowore confronting officers stationed at a checkpoint on the airport road. In the footage, the officers were accused of extorting motorists and causing traffic.
When Sowore’s vehicle approached, the officers demanded he park, leading to an exchange.
“You are not supposed to be causing traffic on the airport road. We are not parking. Go and bring your Oga. You people should calm down,” Sowore can be heard saying in the video. Despite his insistence, the officers initially blocked his car, creating a standoff.
Eventually, one officer instructed his colleagues to allow Sowore to proceed, but not before another officer muttered, “God punish you.” Sowore immediately retorted, “God punish you too,” before driving off.

Sowore
The video sparked public outrage, leading the police hierarchy to launch a manhunt for Sowore.
Reports revealed that the action was prompted by persistent appeals from Force Spokesperson Muyiwa Adejobi to the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to take action against Sowore for allegedly obstructing the officers.
The summons comes amid another legal battle for Sowore.
He is scheduled to appear in court on February 4, 2025, in a cybercrime case initiated by Senator Ned Nwoko, who recently defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The incident has reignited public debates about police accountability and the harassment of activists in Nigeria.
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FULL LIST: Patience Jonathan, Ganduje Affected As FCTA Begins Enforcement On Revoked Property Titles
FULL LIST: Patience Jonathan, Ganduje Affected As FCTA Begins Enforcement On Revoked Property Titles
FULL LIST: Patience Jonathan, Ganduje affected as FCTA begins enforcement on revoked property titles. The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has published the names of entities and individuals linked to 1,095 property titles recently revoked over the non-payment of statutory land charges.
The affected properties are located in high-brow districts including Asokoro, Maitama, Garki and Wuse.
In a public notice signed by the FCTA management, the agency said enforcement actions against the properties will commence following the expiration of the final grace period of 14 days on November 25, 2025.
The FCTA said 835 properties defaulted in payment of ground rents, while 260 properties defaulted in payment of violation fee and land use conversion fee.

Patience Jonathan
Among the individuals whose properties were listed in the notice are Abdullahi Ganduje, former governor of Kano; Donald Duke, former governor of Cross River; Patience Jonathan, wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan; David Mark, former senate president; and Iyiola Omisore, former deputy governor of Osun.
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Aisha Yesufu Asks NASS To Summon Tinubu Over Insecurity
Aisha Yesufu Asks NASS To Summon Tinubu Over Insecurity
Aisha Yesufu asks NASS to summon Tinubu over insecurity. The Co-convener of the #BringBackOurGirls Movement, Aisha Yesufu, has urged the National Assembly to summon President Bola Tinubu to a joint session to explain what his administration is doing to protect Nigerians amid escalating insecurity across the country.
Yesufu made the call on Monday in an open letter addressed to federal lawmakers, where she also urged urgent legislative action to strengthen security agencies and address the underlying drivers of insecurity.
She also criticised the legislature for what she described as its passive response to the worsening situation, insisting that lawmakers must “wake up to their responsibilities” and act in the interest of the citizens.
Reacting to the spate of attacks nationwide, the human rights activist said, “We will not be silenced or intimidated. We will continue to demand accountability and good governance.”
She lamented that Nigerians were being “hunted like animals, abducted or killed in their places of worship, schools, on the roads, farms, markets, and even in their homes, where they ought to be safest,” stressing that “nowhere and no one is safe in the country.”
According to Yesufu, lawmakers have failed to stand with the people they represent. “With all of this happening, the National Assembly members have not deemed it fit to raise their collective voices for the people who sent them. Instead, they have raised their voices in defending the executive they should be holding accountable.”

Aisha Yesufu Asks NASS To Summon Tinubu Over Insecurity
She further expressed disappointment in the parliament’s performance, saying, “As a citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I am dismayed and disappointed by the National Assembly’s failure to fulfil its constitutional duties.”
The activist noted that the National Assembly, as the highest legislative arm of government, should be the voice of the people, “but it has become a rubber-stamp Assembly, complicit in the country’s descent into chaos.”
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UCH Resident Doctors Resume Work After Month-Long Nationwide Strike
UCH Resident Doctors Resume Work After Month-Long Nationwide Strike
UCH resident doctors resume work after month-long nationwide strike. Resident doctors at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, have resumed work after a month-long nationwide strike.
Resident doctors at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, have resumed work after a month-long nationwide strike.
The doctors had been on strike since November 1, following the directives of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors.
The NARD directed its members nationwide to embark on an indefinite strike, following the government’s failure to address their demands.
The association demands a 200 per cent increase in the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure and the full implementation of new allowances proposed since July 2022.
The doctors also demand immediate recruitment of clinical staff and the removal of bureaucratic bottlenecks that are delaying the replacement of exited doctors, among other demands.
The president of the UCH’s NARD, Gboyega Ajibola, said that the NARD National Executive Council met on November 29 to reappraise the situation. He noted that the government had met most of their immediate and short-term demands.
According to Mr Ajibola, a memorandum of understanding had been signed with the government, enumerating each of the association’s demands and the points of execution.
“Based on the satisfactory terms of the MoU, the NARD NEC decided to suspend the industrial action and give the government a period of four weeks to reappraise the efforts of the government as contained in the signed MoU.

Resident Doctors (NARD)
“Having suspended the strike on November 29, as in the tradition of NARD, each centre was mandated to hold a congress on December 1, for all centre presidents to brief their members on development.
“After the brief, the centre presidents will direct all members to resume at their duty posts. In compliance with this, a congress was held at 8:00 a.m. today (Monday), where members were updated and directed to resume work,” he said.
Mr Ajibola explained that all members resumed work on Monday.
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