{"id":196240,"date":"2025-04-17T11:27:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T09:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-mp-sues-metro-tv-party-communicator-for-over-u-s-600000\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:27:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T09:27:39","slug":"west-africa-mp-sues-metro-tv-party-communicator-for-over-u-s-600000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-mp-sues-metro-tv-party-communicator-for-over-u-s-600000\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: MP Sues Metro TV, Party Communicator for Over U.S.$600,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The Member of Parliament for Sekondi in Ghana&#8217;s Western Region, Blay Nyameke Armah, has filed a defamation suit against Accra-based Metro TV, its owners Ignite Media and the Jospong Group, and New Patriotic Party communicator Lawuratu Musah-Saaka, demanding GHC10,000,000 (USD 642,678) in damages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"78\">The lawsuit, filed at the High Court, stems from comments made by Musah-Saaka on the Good Morning Ghana programme aired on Metro TV on April 7, 2025. During the discussion, she alleged that the MP, Hon&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504170064.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Member of Parliament for Sekondi in Ghana&#8217;s Western Region, Blay Nyameke Armah, has filed a defamation suit against Accra-based Metro TV, its owners Ignite Media and the Jospong Group, and New Patriotic Party communicator Lawuratu Musah-Saaka, demanding GHC10,000,000 (USD 642,678) in damages. The lawsuit, filed at the High Court, stems from comments made by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,12455,4509,9817,257,7024,254,11600,48668,4375],"class_list":["post-196240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-communicator","tag-ghana-news","tag-metro","tag-news","tag-party","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sues","tag-u-s-600000","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}