The family of Cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins killed during filming of the movie “Rust” has filed a wrongful death suit against actor Alec Baldwin and others on Tuesday, February 15 claiming they disregarded several industry-wide practices meant to keep movie sets safe. Halyna Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza was wounded when a gun Baldwin was using during a rehearsal fired off a live bullet. The movie was being filmed at Bonanza Creek Ranch in New Mexico. Baldwin has said …
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Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo, popularly known as D’banj, has sued his rape accuser, Seyitan Babatayo for N1.5 billion Naira. In an initial lawsuit, D’banj demanded N100 million Naira from Seyitan Babatayo for “defamation of character” after she accused him of rape and demanded an apology through her lawyers. Now, after all that has happened in recent times, D’banj, through his lawyer, Mike Ozekhome Chambers, has asked Ms Babatayo to pay N1.5 billion Naira. N1 billion was demanded in damages “over the …
A Nigerian lady has reportedly sued 19 of her husband’s relatives for libel and defamation of character. Twitter user @tillytate20, said the lawsuit centered on voice recording and videos of them calling her slut/whore/ashawo/akwuna-kwuna. The lady is also demanding an apology and N5m from each of them. Though her lawyer reportedly told her she might lose the case, the lady however insisted on keeping her husband’s relatives busy for at least 3 years. The tweet read; This woman is …
Human Rights organization, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has filed a lawsuit against Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and Dr Osagie Ehanire, the Minister of Health, over “their failure to account for the public funds and other resources so far spent and used to combat the spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria.” The suit comes after SERAP made a Freedom of Information (FoI) request on 27 March 2020 to the Minister of Health and …
The White House has asked a federal judge to order former national security adviser John Bolton to stop the publication of his upcoming book on his White House tenure, arguing that Bolton will be breaching a contract he signed with the Trump administration and was risking the exposure of classified information if he released the book. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday evening in Washington, DC, federal court, alleges that Bolton’s 500-plus page manuscript was “rife with classified information,” and that Bolton …
The Saint Paulus Lutheran Church, a church in San Francisco, California, US, is suing popular video calling app, Zoom, after one of its bible study classes was allegedly hacked into by a hacker who displayed live pornography during the bible study class being held by the church. The church, one of the oldest in San Francisco held a bible study class on May 6, but 42 minutes into the class, their computer screens were “hijacked” and “control buttons disabled” while pornographic video …