- orders retraction, apology in PUNCH, others
Justice Njideka Nwosu-Iheme of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory has awarded N5.5 million damages in favour of Ifeanyi Ejiofor, counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
The court also granted a perpetual injunction restraining the defendant and Executive Director of Due Process Advocate, Emeka Ugwuonye, his agents, associates, privies, and/or proxies howsoever called, from carrying out any libelous publication against Ejiofor.
Ejiofor had in the suit marked: CV/535/2022, dragged Ugwuonye, an activist and lawyer to a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja, demanding N5.1bn for allegedly defamatory publication.
One of the defamatory materials was said to have been published and circulated to third parties on the Internet on February 5, 2022, and continued till February 8, 2022.
Ugwuonye had alleged that “Ejiofor was facing serious investigation for…
