{"id":46862,"date":"2021-02-19T22:32:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T21:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=46862"},"modified":"2021-02-19T22:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T21:36:05","slug":"libel-mfm-wins-as-court-awards-n500m-damages-against-maureen-badejo-orders-retraction-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/libel-mfm-wins-as-court-awards-n500m-damages-against-maureen-badejo-orders-retraction-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Libel: MFM Wins As Court Awards N500m Damages Against Maureen Badejo, Orders Retraction, Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court of Justice in Abeokuta, Ogun State has delivered its judgment in a Ten Billion Naira libel claim against UK-based Vlogger Maureen Badejo.<\/p>\n<p>The Incorporated Trustees of Mountain of Fire &amp; Miracles Ministries and its General Overseer, Dr. D. K. Olukoya as the 1st and 2nd Claimants respectively commenced the case on September 7, 2020 to claim sundry relief against Maureen Badejo, for continuous and sustained libel published by her through free-to-air broadcasts in the social media, particularly Facebook, You-Tube and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Court records reveal that Maureen was served all documents and hearing notices in the case by DHL courier service, but chose to stay away from the proceedings and continued relentlessly in her damaging broadcasts.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>In his judgment delivered on Tuesday February 9, 2021, the trial Judge, the Hon. Justice Abiodun A. Akinyemi, while describing Maureen Badejo\u2019s ruthless campaign against the Claimants as the worst case of reckless defamation and evil use of the internet and social media, awarded the sum of N250million to each of the Claimants (making a total of N500 million) as aggravated and exemplary damages for libel.<\/p>\n<p>The Court also ordered the Defendant (Maureen) to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>immediately pull down and erase each of the offending online publications\/posts concerning the Claimants from the internet.<\/li>\n<li>Tender a written apology and retraction of the offending publications and posts in a form and content acceptable to the Claimants and published prominently in her Facebook, You-Tube and Instagram accounts and in at least three nationally circulating newspapers in Nigeria and two international magazines including Time International, FORTHWITH<\/li>\n<li>Perpetual Injunction restraining the Defendant (Maureen) by herself, her agents, servants, privies or other persons howsoever called or described from further making, publishing and\/or disseminating defamatory stories and statements about the Claimants or any one of them.<br \/>\nAsked whether Maureen has been made aware of the Judgment, Counsel to the Claimants, Ime Nya Asanga Esq., mresponded that a certified true copy of the judgment and a certificate of the judgment with Form 35 endorsed thereon, had been served vide DHL courier on Maureen and that the proof of service indicates that she personally signed for them at 09:20 am of Thursday, 18th February, 2021<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div id=\"jp-relatedposts\" class=\"jp-relatedposts\"><\/div>\n<\/p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court of Justice in Abeokuta, Ogun State has delivered its judgment in a Ten Billion Naira libel claim against UK-based Vlogger Maureen Badejo.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":45804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[8223],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-46862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-crime","category-news","tag-libel-case"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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