{"id":76263,"date":"2025-10-08T14:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76263"},"modified":"2025-10-08T14:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:37:13","slug":"abuja-lawyers-petition-new-york-attorney-general-to-probe-sowore-sahara-media-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/08\/abuja-lawyers-petition-new-york-attorney-general-to-probe-sowore-sahara-media-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja Lawyers Petition New York Attorney General to Probe Sowore, Sahara Media Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A group of Abuja-based lawyers has petitioned the New York Attorney General to investigate the financial dealings of Sahara Media Group Incorporated and its founder, Mr. Omoyele Sowore.<\/p>\n<p>The petition, dated October 7, 2025, was filed through Heartland Advisors &amp; Solicitors and submitted to the U.S. Embassy in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>It was signed by Barristers Sunday Oluwole and Felix Olanrewaju Wolemiwa.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyers urged the U.S. authorities to audit Sahara Media Group\u2019s finances, including its $1.3 million MacArthur Foundation grant, to verify compliance with New York\u2019s nonprofit laws. They also requested a review of Sowore\u2019s tax filings and U.S. property records to determine if charitable funds were diverted for personal or political use.<\/p>\n<p>The petition alleged inconsistencies in Sowore\u2019s asset declarations to Nigeria\u2019s INEC, citing reports of an undeclared U.S. property and questioned his financial capacity based on his reported income versus known expenses.<\/p>\n<p>The group also referenced a 2018 GoFundMe campaign for Sowore\u2019s political movement that was briefly suspended over transparency concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioners called for a full audit, investigation of potential misuse of funds, and suspension of Sowore\u2019s U.S. travel documents pending the probe\u2019s outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; A group of Abuja-based lawyers has petitioned the New York Attorney General to investigate the financial dealings of Sahara Media Group Incorporated and its founder, Mr. Omoyele Sowore. The petition, dated October 7, 2025, was filed through Heartland Advisors &amp; Solicitors and submitted to the U.S. Embassy in Abuja. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76265,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76263\/revisions\/76265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}