Tag: Defamation

Alleged Kickback Defamation: Gbajabiamila sues PFIPC DG for ₦15bn

Aminu Imam
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Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, has filed a ₦15 billion defamation suit at the FCT High Court against Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew over allegations that he demanded a 48% kickback from a ₦27.3 billion take-off grant approved for a federal agency. Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, has filed a ₦15 billion defamation suit at the FCT High Court against Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew, who has described himself as the Director-General of the disputed Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC), over allegations that he demanded…

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Defamation: Court grants Natasha ₦50m bail 

Aminu Imam
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The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja yesterday granted the Senator representing Kogi-Central Senatorial District, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, bail in the sum of ₦50 million and one surety who must be a person of reasonable integrity resident in FCT Abuja and owns a landed property within the Abuja Municipal Area Council. The trial judge, Justice Chizoba Orji, made the declaration in a ruling after taking arguments for and against the bail application from the parties in the suit. The Attorney General of the Federation, in a three-count criminal charge…

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