By Morkporkpor Anku Accra, May 14, GNA – Nana Oye Bampoe Addo, a former Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, has sued her ex-husband Mr Tony Lithur, for libel over their divorce petition filed on May 2, 2018. The two were customarily married on April 14, 1991, and the marriage was converted into ordinance […]
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Lawyers of political activist, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, led by Dr Justice Srem-Sai have dragged the National Security Minister, Albert Kan Dapaah to the Supreme Court for refusing to answer some 17 questions in his GHc10 million defamation case. The action to the apex Court is to order the Minister to respond to those questions of facts
A witness has told an Accra High Court that Manasseh Azure Awuni, an investigative journalist, and four others have no evidence to support their publications against Lighthouse Chapel International (LCI) and its founder. In a defamation suit against Awuni, the Media Foundation for West Africa, its Director, Sulemana Braimah and Edwin Appiah, a co-editor (defendants),
John Paintsil named four persons and three media outfits as respondents in his suitJohn Paintsil named four persons and three media outfits as respondents in his suit Following his recent appointment as assistant Black Stars coach, John Paintsil has taken legal action against four sports journalists and three media entities for defamation. The journalists named
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An Accra High Court presided over by His Lordship, Richard Apietu, has awarded damages of GH₵1,000,000.00 against Nathaniel Dekyi alias Nana Nyonwah Panyin IV of Dompim Pepesa in the Western Region and the Multimedia Group Limited. This was after the court found the two guilty of defaming the Western Regional Minister, Mr Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah
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The Strategic Mobialsation Limited (SML) has sued the Fourth Estate and Manasseh Awuni for defamation following the airing of the ‘GH¢3 billion lie report’. The company is demanding GHS 10 million in damages. “Plaintiff says that the onslaught of backlash from the public which has arisen from the Defendants’ false reportage has adversely impacted Plaintiff’s
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The Member of Parliament for Yendi constituency, Farouk Aliu Mahama is demanding a formal apology from Citi FM/TV correspondent Mohammed Aminu Alabira and the Northern Regional branch of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) for falsely accusing him of assaulting the reporter during the NPP Parliamentary primary in the constituency. Farouk Aliu Mahama claims that the
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A New York jury has decided Donald Trump should pay $83.3m (£65m) for defaming columnist E Jean Carroll in 2019 while he was US president. The penalty in the civil trial is made up of $18.3m for compensatory damages and $65m in punitive damages. Mr Trump was found in a previous civil case to have
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A tailor at Kadjebi in the Oti Region has been arrested by the Kadjebi Police for forcefully shaving the private parts of Bright Abusah, a 19-year-old electrical apprentice. Narrating his ordeal to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Abusah, said the accused at around 8 pm on Sunday, January 21, invited him to his workshop at Kadjebi
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According to the plaintiff, some words published by the defendant in certain portions of the book are defamatory of him. A private legal practitioner and founder of Fugar & Company, William Edem Fugar, has sued a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Ivan Addae-Mensah, for defamation owing to the content of
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