Former Nigerian Ambassador to Namibia and Head of Mission in Jamaica, Lilian Onoh, has sued immediate past Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, for alleged defamation of character in a court in Texas, United States.
In the originating summons, the suit also listed the publisher and Chief Executive Officer of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, as well as the former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Gabriel Aduda, as defendants.
The suit which was filed on behalf of Onoh by her lawyer, Steven Thornton on December 22, in US District Court of the Northern District of Texas for Libel, Assault, Slander, alleges that the trio, using Sahara Reporters, had defamed Onoh to “discredit her exposure of corruption in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where Onyeama was Minister from 2015 – 2023.”
