A magistrate court in Abuja has convicted and jailed a lawyer for six months over defamatory publication against the Dangote Cement Plc. The convict, Augustine Addeh, of the law firm, Mokidi and Co., had caused the publication of an advert in a newspaper of Friday November 6, 2015, where he falsely alleged that the Dangote Cement caused the invasion of Okpella Community with armed gangsters on October 30, 2015. The convict, in the publication, also sought to debar the company’s enlistment on the London Stock Exchange, and other stock markets…
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