Days after Sahara Reporters and Omoyele Sowore was sued N10 billion for libel, the Incorporated Trustees of Mountain of Fire & Miracles Ministries, MFM, and the church’s founder, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, have commenced a legal action against ThisDay Newspapers for allegedly publishing a libelous story against them.

The cleric and the church are demanding N500bn in damages from Thisday newspaper for the alleged injury caused them by the defendant’s publication.

The claimants are urging the court to make an order, directing the newspaper “to tender a written apology and a retraction published prominently on its website and for three consecutive days on the front page of ThisDay Newspaper and in at least three other nationally circulating newspapers and two international magazines, including TIME International.”



The claimants also want the court to order the defendant “to pull down and erase the offending story from the Internet forthwith.”

They are also seeking an order of perpetual injunction “restraining the defendant by itself, its agents, servants, privies or other persons howsoever called or described from further publishing and/or disseminating libelous stories and statements against the claimants.”

The cleric and his church are also praying the court to put the cost of filing the lawsuit on the newspaper.

The suit marked PHC/2257/2018 was filed on their behalf by their lawyer,  Ime Nya Asanga of Ime Asanga & Company at the Rivers State High Court in Port Harcourt on July 30, 2018, hearing is yet to be fixed.

Source: Nigeria News Headlines

500bn
For what exactly?

Lol

E no consign me, walahi

How much dem come get ??

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Oh oh

Many ways to generate income...

500m is even small why publish false stories against a man of God. Dr olukoya should increase it to 500billion and it should be paid in pounds sterling.

Good for them

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I thought vengeance belongs to God

looters

Ok

A nama bia biko mombo

why not go onfasting so that first will burn their studio. useless pastors

ok

na wa o

for wat gangan

Good one!

All fake news peddlers should be sued.

Would Jesus do same

Sisijetue:
I thought vengeance belongs to God

How long will these news media post rubbish about men of God? Not that I support the act but it's best he took the legal action.

He charged them by fire!

This man of God should take it easy ooo even Jesus himself was castigated and he never get angry.He said we shall face tribulations

What was actually published about them? I don't understand

Such prayer won't stand in Nigerian court with such amount of compensation

Fireeeeeee

Sisijetue:
I thought vengeance belongs to God

the paper did not offend God but Olukoya, so he is taking the right step.

Anoda way of generating fund to run d ministries

What caused the problem