The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has instituted a N5 billion basic rights enforcement swimsuit against the Department of State Services (DSS), its Director-General, Tosin Ajayi, the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), and a Deputy Director of the DSS, Benjamin Bulus, over an alleged violent assault and abduction carried out by armed, hooded DSS operatives inside the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja on 22 June 2026.
The swimsuit, filed on October 13, 2026 and marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/2480/2026, challenges the legality of the DSS operation and seeks judicial redress for violations of Sowore’s constitutionally assured rights to human dignity and private liberty.
The authorized motion was primarily based on the plaintiff’s declare that DSS operatives, performing outdoors the scope of a judicial remand order, violently attacked him inside the Federal High Court advanced and forcibly transported him in elevators reserved for Federal High Court judges to the basement of the constructing against his will, injuring him within the strategy of the violent assault.
According to a press release by Sowore’s lawyer, Mr Peter Femi Joseph, following an order by Justice Mohammed Umar of the Federal High Court, on June 22, 2026, directing Sowore’s remand on the Kuje Correctional Centre pending the listening to and dedication of his software searching for a keep of the order revoking his bail and the bench warrant issued against him, operatives of the company together with armed women and men sporting hoods, stormed the fourth flooring of the Federal High Court constructing in a bid to arrest him.
The assertion additional claimed that operatives descended on Sowore, bodily assaulted him, and forcibly eliminated him from the world earlier than transporting him against his will to the basement of the court docket advanced.
Sowore maintained that he had dedicated no offence warranting such an operation and that the DSS had no lawful authority to assault, abduct, intimidate, or topic him to degrading therapy inside the premises of a court docket of legislation.
He additional contended that the operation was supposed to intimidate and hurt him, however the existence of a judicial order specifying the lawful course of for his remand.
The swimsuit identifies Tosin Ajayi, the DG of the DSS and Benjamin Bulus, a Deputy Director and operative of the DSS, because the officer who led the operation.
Meanwhile, video proof of the alleged assault, which the plaintiff disclosed was captured with Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, kinds a part of proof to be offered as proof in proof of Sowore’s case.
The swimsuit invokes Sections 34 and 35 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), which assure the rights to dignity of the human individual and private liberty.
The Applicant contended that the alleged bodily assault, forcible removing, intimidation, and false detention constituted violations of those basic rights.
He additionally seeks to determine the respective authorized tasks of the DSS, its Director-General, the Attorney-General of the Federation, and Benjamin Bulus for the misconduct.
Sowore is asking the Federal High Court to award him N5 billion in aggravated damages over the alleged assault, abduction, humiliation, intimidation, and infringement of his constitutionally protected rights.
He can also be searching for declarations in regards to the alleged unlawfulness of the conduct complained of, acceptable injunctive and consequential orders, and any additional reduction the court docket considers justified.
Kano Committed to High-impact Health Research, Says KIRCT
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The Kano Independent Research Centre Trust (KIRCT) has disclosed that it’ll proceed to supply high-impact companies and cutting-edge analysis outcomes able to addressing current and rising well being challenges in Kano, Nigeria, and past.
The Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Centre, Prof. Aliyu Abdu, disclosed this on the opening ceremony of the Advanced Bioinformatics Workshop organised by KIRCT in Kano yesterday.
He mentioned KIRCT is provided with state-of-the-art services to allow scientists to conduct superior analysis domestically with out travelling overseas, including that its researchers are presently engaged on a number of well being areas, together with genomics, breast most cancers, antimicrobial resistance, vaccines and others.
Prof. Abdu famous that the Centre has additionally established mutually helpful collaborations with analysis establishments inside and out of doors the area, with plans to increase globally.
According to him, the coaching lined younger scientists to conduct impactful analysis,s which is without doubt one of the mandates of the Centre.
He recommended the variety of the workshop individuals, particularly with regard to gender distribution, and urged the individuals to use the information to be gained from the workshop for the good thing about humanity.
He thanked the funders of the Centre, Pfizer Inc. and the Kano State Government, for his or her assist, and lauded the board and administration of the Centre for the progress it recorded.
In his remarks, the Special Adviser to the Kano State Governor on Health Services and member of the Board of Trustees, Dr. Ibrahim Musa Idris, reaffirmed the state authorities’s assist for the Centre.
He mentioned the administration of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf is happy with the Centre’s spectacular progress, expressing optimism that the Centre will quickly be on the worldwide map for offering modern well being options.
