The operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) have arrested Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore.
Sowore had posted a distress tweet on his Twitter handle at 1:25 am, after which someone claiming to be an eyewitness confirmed that his phone was forcefully taken from him.
The convener of #RevolutionNow campaign, Sowore, was said to have been picked up at his apartment in the early hours of Saturday.
Sowore had launched a #RevolutionNow campaign on Twitter with series of tweets mobilising Nigerian for a protest march against bad governance in Nigeria, scheduled for August 5, 2019.