A High Court sitting in Benin, Edo
State, on Wednesday, awarded Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole N25m as
compensation in a libel suit the governor instituted against Doclands
Communications, publishers of News of the People magazine and its editor.
Oshiomhole had dragged the magazine to
court over a report that he allegedly impregnated a student of the
state-owned Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma.
The trial Judge, Justice Efe Ikponmwoba,
in his verdict also ordered that the defendant published a retraction
in an edition of its publication.
Justice Ikponmwoba held that evidence adduced by the governor proved that the magazine’s publication was libelous.
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