Human rights activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, is currently being held in a cell at the Kuje Correctional Centre alongside inmates suffering from tuberculosis, raising fresh concerns about his health and the state of medical care in Nigeria’s prison system. Prison sources told SaharaReporters that Sowore is being housed in a cell with inmates diagnosed with tuberculosis. According to the sources, one of the inmates recently died, while another is battling spinal tuberculosis.

Human rights activist and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has declared that his remand at the Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja…

The correctional officials, who arrived at the court premises in a prison transport vehicle, popularly known as a Black Maria, received Sowore from DSS operatives before conveying…