Tag Archives: DEFAMATION

Edward Akufo-Addo, a businessman and biological brother to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has secured a GHC10 million judgement in a defamation suit, Citi News reports. The businessman won the suit brought against the Class Media Group, a journalist and two panellists who made those allegations against him last year. …

Businessman and Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi has sued Valentina Nana Agyeiwaa (Afia Schwarzenegger) for defamation. The plaintiff, Chairman Wontumi, is asking for two million Ghana Cedis (GHC2M) as damages, costs including legal fees and a perpetual order restraining …

A Kumasi High Court has directed one Richard Kwadwo Owusu Nyarko, who was pretending to be a medical doctor, to pay the legal fees of the defendants in a defamation lawsuit he filed, which sums up to GH¢600,000. The court asked the self-acclaimed medical doctor to pay GH¢100,000 each to …

A US jury has found Amber Heard defamed ex-husband Johnny Depp with an article in which she claimed she was a victim of domestic abuse. Jurors awarded Mr Depp – who denied abusing Ms Heard – $15m (£12m) in compensatory and punitive damages. Ms Heard, 36, won one of three …

Sammy Darko, one of the lawyers for the investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, has disclosed that Ibrahim Sannie Daara, a former Communications Director of the Ghana Football Association, GFA, decided to run away from a defamation action he had filed against the journalist for his alleged role in the Number 12 …

A United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia that dismissed a defamation suit brought before it by the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has given him a 60-day period within which he can file a second amended appeal. Agyapong filed the case months ago …

A defamation suit by the Member of Parliament for Assin Central against US-based Ghanaian journalist, Kevin Taylor and his media company, Loud silence, has been dismissed by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. By the court, Kennedy Agyapong failed to truly prove that the comments made by Mr Taylor …

Edudzi Kudzo Tamekloe, lawyer for journalist Kwabena Bobie Ansah has stressed the needlessness of the state’s decision to pursue criminal prosecution against the Accra FM presenter. Tamekloe in an interview with Accra-based Citi FM on February 11 submitted that the case in which the journalist had made allegations bordering on …

The Member of Parliament for Juaboso, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has filed a defamatory suit against Kwame Baffoe Abronye, the Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party and Kencity Media over some claims Abronye allegedly made against him regarding the Sputnik V saga. In a suit sighted by GhanaWeb, Mintah Akandoh …

•Edward Akufo-Addo has sued Class Media Group for defamation •The businessman is demanding GH¢10 million in damages •The plaintiff is the biological brother of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Managing Director of Amaadi Cold Stores Limited Edward Akufo-Addo has filed a legal suit against the Class Media Group and some personalities …