Controversial Nigerian artist Habeeb Okikiola Badmus, widely known as Portable, has been granted bail set at ₦1 million by an Upper Area Court in Ilorin, Kwara State.
Tag: Defamation
Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has initiated a ₦5 billion defamation lawsuit against Senator Onyekachi Nwaebonyi.
A Chief Magistrate’s Court located in Wuse Zone 6, Abuja, has issued a summons to the controversial blogger Martins Vincent Otse, widely recognized as VeryDarkMan, in connection with alleged criminal defamation against gospel artist Mercy Chinwo.
The Nigerian police have launched a search for Reno Omokri over the alleged defamation of Dunamis Church Pastor, Paul Enenche after receiving a detention order.
The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) has turned down the request by Chief Afe Babalola SAN’s law firm, Emmanuel Chambers, to revoke the law practising license of lawyer and Activist, Tomilola Farotimi, popularly known as Dele Farotimi, over allegations of criminal defamation and professional misconduct.
Human rights advocate and attorney Dele Farotimi was prohibited by a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja on Wednesday from publishing, selling, distributing, promoting, or advertising his book, “Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System,” in hard or soft copy.
Peter Obi, a former governor of Anambra State and former Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, met with Afe Babalola, SAN, a prominent Nigerian lawyer, in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.
Lawyer and Rights Activist, Deji Adeyanju has made a u-turn by apologising and retracting his defamatory statement against Umar Damagun, the Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and Sen. Samuel Anyanwu, the Acting National Secretary of PDP.
A chieftain of the Labour Party, Dele Farotimi has been arrested by Nigerian Police Force Officers on suspicion of disparaging Tony Elumelu, the CEO of the United Bank for Africa.
Human rights activist and lawyer Femi Falana and his son Folarin, better known as Falz, have demanded a public apology and retraction for defamatory statements made by popular transvestite Idris Okuneye, better known as Bobrisky, in an audio recording circulating on the Internet.