POPULAR LAGOS LAWYER DRAGS LINDA IKEJI TO COURT IN MULTI-MILLION NAIRA SUIT



Famous Nigerian blogger, Linda Ikeji, has been slammed with a lawsuit filed by Lagos based lawyer.

Olumide Babalola, the Lagos-based Lawyer has dragged Africa’s biggest blogger, Linda Ikeji to the Lagos High Court on grounds of unauthorized and offensive use of his picture.

In Suit No. LD/3265MFHR/2016 before Hon. Justice O.H. Oshodi, the lawyer sued the blogger for damages in the sum of N50, 000,000 (Fifty Million Naira) for the unauthorized use of his picture on her blog for crime-related stories which he alleged has subjected him to mental and psychological torture, while violating his constitutional right to dignity of human person and freedom from degrading treatment.


Justice O.H. Oshodi granted an injunction restraining Linda Ikeji from further use of the lawyer’s picture otherwise she would be committed to prison for contempt of court, pending the time of the hearing of the main suit.

The court granted the order on the 12th of May, 2016, wherein the court restrained the blogger from further usage of Mr. Olumide Babalola’s pictures for crime-related stories.

PM News reports that it was also reliably gathered that the award-winning lawyer who just returned from New York, United States of America, where he was presented with an International Gold award for quality and excellence in business in recognition of his varying public interest litigations had earlier written to the blogger to desist from further publications but the blogger refused and called him bluff.

The case has been adjourned to September 2016 for hearing.

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