{"id":231338,"date":"2026-04-25T03:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-n1bn-yahaya-bello-wins-defamation-suit-against-natasha-akpoti-uduaghan\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T03:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:21:11","slug":"nigeria-n1bn-yahaya-bello-wins-defamation-suit-against-natasha-akpoti-uduaghan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-n1bn-yahaya-bello-wins-defamation-suit-against-natasha-akpoti-uduaghan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: N1bn &#8211; Yahaya Bello Wins Defamation Suit Against Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Kogi State High Court has awarded N1 billion in damages to former governor of the state, Yahaya Bello, in a defamation suit against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, representing Kogi Central Senatorial District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">In its judgment in suit No. HCL\/16\/2023, the court resolved all issues for determination in favour of Bello, holding that the claimant successfully proved his case on the balance of probabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The court ruled that an interview granted by the senator on November 4, 2022, on The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604240568.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kogi State High Court has awarded N1 billion in damages to former governor of the state, Yahaya Bello, in a defamation suit against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, representing Kogi Central Senatorial District. In its judgment in suit No. HCL\/16\/2023, the court resolved all issues for determination in favour of Bello, holding that the claimant successfully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":231339,"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":[249],"tags":[258,256,50862,18032,7356,39727,22246,257,4687,393,254,7628,6552,33667],"class_list":["post-231338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-akpotiuduaghan","tag-bello","tag-defamation","tag-n1bn","tag-natasha","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suit","tag-wins","tag-yahaya"],"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\/231338","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=231338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}