Nigeria, March 9 -- Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, is set to depart for the United States today (Friday), marking his first travel out Nigeria since his legal troubles with the federal government started in August 2019.

Mr Sowore announced his travel plan in a statement shared with PREMIUM TIMES on Friday.

In the statement, Mr Sowore, a two-time presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), said he would get the opportunity to see his wife and children for the first time since 2019.

"Later today I will be returning to the US after almost five years of my unlawful, unjust and inhuman detention by the corrupt Nigerian political system since August 2019," Mr Sowore said.

Mr Sowore said the ordeal denied him th...