News
President Buhari daughter, Zahra takes legal action against Sahara reporters
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4416" src="https://thedailypage.ng/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/images-21.jpeg" alt="Zahra Buhari" width="739" height="415" /></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>By Temi Joshua</strong></span></p>
<p>Zahra Buhari, President Buhari&#8217;s daughter has taken a legal action against Sahara Reporters over its report of her allegedly conniving with others to defraud the Nigerian government.</p>
<p>The online publication had claimed a source said that Nasiru Danu, a close ally of President Buhari and some top officials of the Nigeria Customs Service, recently defrauded the Nigerian government of N51 billion meant &#8220;to improve Customs’ revenue”.</p>
<p>The source furthered claim that the alleged sum of money was transferred to a foundation owned by Zahra for which Mr Danu is a signatory.</p>
<p>“This was a decision I had to take to protect myself and my growing family from cyber bullying, non investigative and lazy journalism,” she wrote on Instagram.</p>
<p>“It is unfair to say the least. I have taken so much in the last 6 years and I’m about to practise what I preached in my first episode of #inconversationwithzahra that held in November 2019.&#8221;</p>
<p>The president’s daughter in a letter signed by her counsel Nasiru Adamu to Sahara Reporters demanded from the firm the following listed below:</p>
<p>-A retraction of the said damaging and defamatory as well as the injurious publication.</p>
<p>-A retraction of the defamatory publication made @SaharaReporters tweet in respect of the publication in question.</p>
<p>-A public apology to our client be issued vide your website and twitter account @SaharaReporters be published for seven (7) consecutive days.</p>
<p>-Public apologies be published in at least three (3) newspapers with online and physical presence across Nigeria for seven (7) consecutive days.</p>