Mr Sowore’s lawyer, Mrs Falana, while reacting to the judgement, expressed happiness and described it as victory for justice. The judge also held that the claim by the SSS that his phones were still under investigation since 2019 over his alleged link with terrorists was untenable, illegal and unconstitutional. She said the SSS ought to have obtained court order before the confiscation of his belongings and that the seizure can no be regarded as “temporary” since 2019. Ms Chikere described the forceful seizure of the personal property of the publisher of SaharaReporters as “illegal, unconstitutional, null and void and gross violation of his fundamental rights as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution.” The judge ordered the SSS, the 1st respondent in the case, to also tender an apology to Mr Sowore in two national dailies within two months. He was arrested on the basis of his plan to lead a protest, tagged, #RevolutionNow, against the President Muhammadu Buhari administration over its alleged maladministration in general. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Sowore had, through his lawyer, Funmi Falana, alleged that the operatives of the SSS, on Augat a hotel in Lagos, forcefully took away his iPhones and the sum of N10, 000 when he was arrested on allegations bordering on treasonable felony and terrorism. In typical celebratory fashion, here's a spectacularly acidic remix by The Horrors' synth man Tom Furse, it's an acquired taste.ĭave.I.The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the State Security Service (SSS) to pay Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, N2 million over the unlawful seizure of his mobile phone in 2019 at the point of his arrest.ĭelivering judgement in the human rights suit filed by Mr Sowore, the judge, Anwuli Chikere, also ordered the SSS to immediately release the iPhone and a cash of N10,000 which were alleged to have been forcefully taken away from him without court warrant. The fine for an illegal hoarding is 50,000 and 1,000 to 5,000 is the fine for illegal flex, banners and. I've had the pleasure of hearing an advanced copy and it's just as heavy, pounding and darkly poppy as I'd hoped it would be after catching his impressive set at Brighton's Great Escape festival earlier in the month. Fines for illegal banners, hoardings in Pune will now be attached to property tax. Next up is the brooding loner that is Dave.I.D, who will release his debut album Response through his own Off The Uncertain Button imprint on !K7 Records on 13th June. Oh, what's that? Of course we missed you too!Īnyway, I thought I'd bring things up to speed by catching up with the ghost of blog posts past and find out what's going on with our nearest and dearest.įirst off, the disarmingly charming Danimal Kingdom released his debut single Vinyl Skipping Ever Backward / Through The Ice through the Slutty Fringe's love-child imprint Hot Pockets and can be heard in its entirety here:ĭanimal Kingdom - Vinyl Skipping Ever Backward / Through The Iceįeaturing my second favourite Danimal track in Through The Ice (my first being Good As Gold), it's available from all good online and IRL shops. We're sorry that we've been so quiet recently as we've been crazy busy with other projects and party and bullshit. We hope you enjoyed reading the blog as much as we did writing it, it's been emotional. Instead, I suppose it's fitting that we end this post and the blog on a track from each of our bands. But then we realised we'd be better served in saving that for our inevitable double-act on the club circuit once this whole music thing fizzles out. One where we slap ourselves on the back and our near genial sense of comedic timing and toilet humour shines through.
Illegal tender soundtrack song list series#
We'd originally planned on doing a series of posts or highlights feature or some funny interview thing to close the show. I'm now managing Amusement and Tom manages Arthur Beatrice. It made more sense to stop writing and start helping, so now our time is spent managing bands. So with that in mind, I guess I should bring you up to speed on what we're up to. Without going in to a boring and tedious essay about the internet, mp3 blogocide and how we just don't have the time any more, it's common sense that everything has a shelf life and that people move on. Puerto Rico Shoutout (Big Syphe & Frankie Needles) 0:55 2. I know this is long overdue, perhaps too overdue to the point that no one gives a shit, but I thought I'd let everyone know what we're up to and say a final fairwell. Illegal Tender, revealing information available for the first time, tells a riveting tale of American history, liberally spiced with greed, intrigue, deception, and controversy as it follows the once secret odyssey of this fabulous golden object through the decades. Illegal Tender soundtrack from 2007, composed by Various Artists.