LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of petroleum resources, has filed a libel suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the attorney-general of the federation (AGF) demanding to be paid damages of N100 billion over claims that she is corrupt. In a writ of summons filed on her behalf at a federal…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola has slammed a N2 billion defamation suit against the Chief Executive Officer of Sunrise Power and Transmission Company Ltd., Leno Adesanya. In a statement of claim before an FCT High Court presided over by Justice Sylvester Oriji, the minister accused Adesanya and two national dailies…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A United Kingdom High Court of Justice has registered the N500 million damages entered in favour of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries and the church’s general overseer, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, by an Ogun State High Court against Maureen Badejo – a UK-based blogger. The judgment was registered today, Tuesday, March 30,…
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has slammed a N7 Billion suit against ThisDay Newspapers being damages for libel written and published in ThisDay’s Tuesday, June 23, 2020 edition. In the publication captioned, “With Wike, Obaseki Meets His PDP’S Waterloo, Almost,” the Defendants maliciously and falsely portrayed the Claimant as an unreliable…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has made good his threat to institute a N2.5bn libel against a Presidential aide, Mrs Lauretta Onochie over an alleged libellous publication. He was at the Registry of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama where he formally deposed to his own witness statement…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 Presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, has filed N2.5bn libel suit against Lauretta Onochie, the Special Assistant on Social Media to President Muhammadu Buhari. Naija News reports that the former Vice-President sued Onochie for her alleged libelous tweet via her Twitter handle…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has sued The Punch newspaper and Sonala Olumhense, a syndicated columnist, over an article they published on January 27, 2019. In the article, “This is the best contribution Obasanjo can make,” Mr. Olumhense recalled previous articles he had written about the two-time Nigeria leader, explaining that because of…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The High Court of FCT, Abuja, has ordered an online news platform, Pointblanknews, to pay a total of N200m in damages for a libelous story it published – and refused to retract after it was proved to be false – against former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in 2012. The judgment…