{"id":77222,"date":"2025-10-23T10:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77222"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:02:24","slug":"activist-sowore-arrested-at-abuja-federal-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/23\/activist-sowore-arrested-at-abuja-federal-high-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist Sowore Arrested at Abuja Federal High Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Human rights activist and former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore was arrested by police at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday shortly after attending a court session.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said the arrest, reportedly ordered by the FCT Police Commissioner, occurred moments after Sowore appeared in a case involving IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu.<\/p>\n<p>An associate described the arrest as unexpected, noting that Sowore attended the hearing voluntarily.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken away by police officers shortly after announcing that his client\u2019s legal team would withdraw from the case.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the charges and his detention location remain unclear as of press time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; Human rights activist and former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore was arrested by police at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday shortly after attending a court session. Sources said the arrest, reportedly ordered by the FCT Police Commissioner, occurred moments after Sowore appeared in a case involving IPOB leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77222","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=77222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77224,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77222\/revisions\/77224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}