Via Yahoonews
Dangote Industries Zambia is suing the country’s labour minister, Fackson Shamenda, for defamation after he claimed that a senior company official tried to bribe him, court documents showed Monday.
The subsidiary of Nigeria's Dangote Group -- owned by Aliko Dangote who is ranked by Forbes magazine as the richest man in Africa -- is claiming unspecified damages for slander and libel as well as special damages in the sum of 112,042.84 kwacha ($17,728), according to documents filed in the High Court.