Nigerian Politics - How Libel Suit Landed Bode George in Prison

Former Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) board chairman and a key associate of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief Olabode George, and five others were yesterday jailed for 30 months. The libel case he instituted against The News magazine, which had exposed George’s alleged corrupt deals at NPA, had sparked off his travails. The report was based on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s indictment of George in its investigation of his activities at NPA. But George’s libel case against the magazine quickened the commencement of his trial by EFCC under Mallam Nuhu Ribadu. George and five others were convicted by an Ikeja High Court under Justice Olubunmi

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