{"id":170300,"date":"2025-08-21T10:15:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T10:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=170300"},"modified":"2025-08-21T10:15:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T10:15:38","slug":"nigeria-is-down-sowore-slams-dss-for-screening-senior-advocates-of-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=170300","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNigeria is down\u201d \u2013 Sowore slams DSS for screening Senior Advocates of Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Omoyele Sowore, former presidential candidate, has criticised the Department of State Services (DSS) over reports that it is screening lawyers nominated for the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). In a post shared via X on Monday, Sowore described the move as a symbol of the \u201ccollapse of courage and conviction\u201d across institutions in \u2026<br \/>\nThe article was originally published on Politics Nigeria&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/politicsnigeria.com\/nigeria-is-down-sowore-slams-dss-for-screening-senior-advocates-of-nigeria\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omoyele Sowore, former presidential candidate, has criticised the Department of State Services (DSS) over reports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170300-nigeria-is-down-sowore-slams-dss-for-screening-senior-advocates-of-nigeria.jpg",650,340,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170300-nigeria-is-down-sowore-slams-dss-for-screening-senior-advocates-of-nigeria-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170300-nigeria-is-down-sowore-slams-dss-for-screening-senior-advocates-of-nigeria-300x157.jpg",300,157,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170300-nigeria-is-down-sowore-slams-dss-for-screening-senior-advocates-of-nigeria.jpg",640,335,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170300-nigeria-is-down-sowore-slams-dss-for-screening-senior-advocates-of-nigeria.jpg",640,335,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170300-nigeria-is-down-sowore-slams-dss-for-screening-senior-advocates-of-nigeria.jpg",650,340,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170300-nigeria-is-down-sowore-slams-dss-for-screening-senior-advocates-of-nigeria.jpg",650,340,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170300-nigeria-is-down-sowore-slams-dss-for-screening-senior-advocates-of-nigeria.jpg",650,340,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170300-nigeria-is-down-sowore-slams-dss-for-screening-senior-advocates-of-nigeria.jpg",650,340,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170300-nigeria-is-down-sowore-slams-dss-for-screening-senior-advocates-of-nigeria-590x340.jpg",590,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}