Nigeria, July 1 -- The Senate has received the report of its committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters on the invasion of a federal high court by security operatives in December 2019.

This comes six months after the incident and after the committee was asked to investigate the court invasion and rearrest of the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, by operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) - even though it was given one week to report back to the Senate.

The chairman of the committee, Opeyemi Bamidele, laid the report before the Senate on Wednesday.

Mr Sowore was arrested alongside another activist, Olawale Bakare, on August 3 for planning a protest to call for good governance.

They were charged with trea...