The founder of the economic and social development website Mides-Niger and the president of the Association of Bloggers for Active Citizenship, in addition to running her own popular Facebook page, Sabou has been arrested and prosecuted by consecutive Nigerien governments for her reporting, which frequently covers state corruption.

This has included providing training to female journalists about disseminating information on social media in light of the 2019 Nigerien cybercrime law, which greatly restricted freedom of expression in the country.

[7] In January 2022, Sabou and fellow journalist Moussa Aksar both shared on social media a report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime about drug trafficking in Niger.

Shortly afterwards, both were arrested, and charged with "defamation by means of electronic communication" following a complaint the government of the new President of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum, resulting in a fine and a one month suspended prison sentence.

[12] Following the 2023 Nigerien coup d'état in July 2023, in which the Government of Niger was overthrown by the Presidential Guard and replaced with the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland, a military junta, Sabou reported that she had received death threats from the new regime's supporters, who considered her to have been hostile to the takeover and unpatriotic.

[11][13] Her lawyer, Ould Salem Saïd, concurrently filed a criminal complaint that Sabou had been kidnapped and arbitrarily detained by state security forces.

[5] The Niamey Judicial Police initially denied having arrested her, but on 7 October she was transferred to the force's criminal investigations unit, where her husband and lawyer were able to visit her.