Nigeria, May 15 -- A US court has reduced the $18 million awarded to Ghanaian investigative journalist Aremeyaw Anas in a defamation case to just $500.

The New Jersey court judge reduced the amount after former Ghanaian MP Kennedy Agyapong and his legal team requested that it be reduced.

Mr Anas had been awarded $18 million in damages after an eight-member jury found the Ghanaian politician guilty of defamation in March.

In a Daddy Fred show podcast episode released in 2021, Mr Agyapong labelled the undercover reporter a criminal. He allegedly implicated him in the murder of a fellow journalist, Ahmed Suale. Suale, a journalist who worked closely with Mr Anas, was shot dead in 2019.

Mr Agyapong made these allegations while commenting ...