Nigerian Army, General Buratai and EndSARS Protests By Yushau A. Shuaib

“You have started again! You should know that PR is not a licence to support atrocities. Innocent persons (at Lekki) were deliberately murdered by your clients (Nigerian Army) and for you, profit is more important than those souls”. – Omoyele Sowore, Publisher of Sahara Reporters. The above was a text message sent to me by my good friend, Omoyele Sowore after PRNigeria published a 204-page book titled, “101 Fake News on EndSARS” and commenced the serialisation of some of the blunders and inconsistencies contained in the recently submitted report of…

Sahara Reporters apologise to Muslims over Afenifere’s Statement on Igboho

The publishers of Sahara Reporters have apologised to millions of Muslims over an offensive headline that compared travails of fugitive Sunday Igboho with the Holy Prophet of Islam, Prophet Muhammad (SAW).   In a statement after it deleted the story from its website, Sahara Reporters stated that they apologised to all those who feel hurt by the report. The statement goes thus: “On Monday, July 26, 2021, we published a story titled, ‘Igboho Is Like Prophet Mohammed Who Fled Mecca For Media Over Persecution—Afenifere’. “We apologise to all those who…

Sahara Reporters: Of Concocted Fallacies, Reign Of Mischief

The attention of the media office of Alhaji Muhammed Sani Musa, a Senator representing Niger -East in the National Assembly has been drawn to a fallacious material by the Sahara Reporters where it erroneously reported that expired rice was donated by the Senator to his constituents as palliatives and Ramadan package. No fabrication of this magnitude has made it to the public domain since the time of history than what this online outlet peddled in this case. For the avoidance of doubt, no product donated by the Senator to his…

NiDCOM writes Sahara Reporters over alleged payment for COVID-19 test

The Nigerian in Diaspora Commission, NiDCOM has written a letter to the management of Sahara Reporters, an online news platform over a news report published by the popular news medium.. Sahara Reporters in the said publication alleged that the Nigeria citizens in the United Kingdom were asked to pay for Covid-19 Test as precondition for Evacuation. Read the letter in full : The Editor- In-Chief, Sahara Reporters Online Re: Nigerian Government orders Citizens in United Kingdom to pay for Covid-19 Test as precondition for Evacuation The attention of the Nigerians in the…

Lift the siege to offices of Sahara Reporters, CDHR—SERAP

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Nigeria’s authorities to immediately lift the siege to the offices of Sahara Reporters and Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), end the illegality and allow journalists, activists and civil society to operate freely. In a statement today by SERAP deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare, the organization said: “Nigeria’s security agents and state governors should also immediately stop the nationwide campaign of arbitrary arrests against journalists, activists and protesters. The attack on Sahara Reporters and CDHR is coming on the heels of…