According to new reports, the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke has sued 11 media houses and individuals over the missing $20 million funds.
The oil funds were reported missing from the coffers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) by former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.
Alison has filed the suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja to restrain members of the media from linking her with the missing money.
The defendants in the case are the All Progressives Congress (APC), Vanguard Media Limited and its editor, Mideno Bayagbon, Leadership Newspapers Group Limited and its editor Ekele Peter Agbo, Premium Times Services Limited and its editor in chief, Dapo Olorunyomi, and Vintage Press Limited and its editor, Lekan Otufodunrin.
The National Broadcasting and Corporation and the Nigerian Press Council were also joined in the application.
Alison-Madueke’s lawyer, Godwin Obla obtained an interim injunction from the court restraining the defendants from “publishing or causing to be published any further defamatory statements” stating or suggesting that the minister “stole, misappropriate or colluded in the stealing of $20billion crude oil revenue”.
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