Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, has demanded the sum of N25billion in damages from the state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Anthony Aziegbemi for alleged defamation of character. The governor also demanded an apology from the PDP chairman to be published in three national dailies, including the Vanguard, Guardian newspapers and one…
Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has slammed a N200 billion suit against Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, over defamation on sexual harassment allegations. Senator Natasha disclosed this in a post made on Friday via her Facebook page. “Today being the 5th day of December, 2025, I’m in receipt of the newly instituted 200 billion naira suit…
Ibrahim Ishaq Dan’uwa Rano The Nigeria Police Force has arrested and detained a Kano-based digital journalist, Ibrahim Ishaq Dan’uwa Rano, following a petition allegedly by Abdullahi Ibrahim Rogo, the Director General of Protocol to Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf. Daily Trust gathered that Dan’uwa Rano was picked up on Saturday by officers from Zone One Police…
The Nigeria government has filed criminal defamation charges against Senator Peter Onyekachi Nwebonyi over alleged defamatory statements made against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who represents Kogi Central Senatorial District. The five-count charge, marked CR/547/2025, was filed before the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Abuja, by Mohamed Babadoko Abubakar, Director of the Department of Public Prosecutions…
Tonye Cole Tonye Cole, the 2023 governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has demanded N20 billion in damages and a public apology from Channels Television over alleged defamatory remarks made against him by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. In a letter sent to Channels Incorporated Ltd,…
The 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate and former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has officially instituted a N1.5 billion defamation suit against Abuja-based activist and rights lawyer, Mr. Deji Adeyanju. Obi instituted the suit at the High Court of Anambra State sitting in Onitsha. In the suit, marked No. 0/254/25, Obi, as the plaintiff,…
Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has dragged the Commissioner of Police in Imo, Mr Aboki Danjuma to court over alleged defamation. Kanu filed the suit through his lawyer, Maxwell Opara, at a Federal High Court, Abuja. He is also demanding an award of N50 million as exemplary damages against the…
Detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has filed a N60 billion defamation suit against social critic, Reno Omokri, over claims linking him and IPOB to violent crimes. The suit, filed on 31 July at the Enugu State High Court, alleged that Omokri, in a 6 July post on his X…
A former Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, has threatened to sue four national dailies over alleged defamatory publications. Dogara made this known in separate letters written through his counsel, Johnson Usman, SAN, to the media organisations. The certified true copies of the letter were made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja….
the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Abuja has granted the the lawmaker representing Kogi Central Senatorial District, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, N50 million bail after denying the defamation allegation levelled against her by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and the state former governor, Yahaya Bello. Aside from that, the court mandated that the lawmaker…
