Nigerian Blogger To Pay £100,000 As Damages To MFM Pastor

The Queens Bench Division of the UK High Court Justice has released the damages it earlier ordered a Nigerian born blogger, Maureen Badejo, to pay to Dr Daniel Olukoya, founder and General Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM) and his wife, Folashade.

In the document released by Dr. Olukoya’s spokesman, Collins Edomaruse, the court ordered the blogger to one hundred thousand pounds sterling £100,000 to the couple as damages for the series of defamatory publications the blogger published against them.

According to the order issued by The Hon Mrs. Justice Tipples, Dr. Olukoya is to get £65,000 while his wife, Folashade Olukoya is to receive £35,000.

IT IS ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the damages payable by the Defendant to the Second Claimant be assessed in the sum of £65,000

AND IS FURTHER ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the damages payable by the Defendant to the Third Claimant be assessed in the sum of £35,000.

The victory for Dr Olukoya and his wife follows the earlier victory won over thh Ms Badejo at an Ogun High Court in Nigeria, where the General Overseer of MFM and his wife were awarded N500 million for defamatory articles published against them by the blogger.

Justice Abiodun Akinyemi, while delivering the judgment, had also ordered Badejo, who owns Gio TV, to pull down and erase the offending online publications concerning the claimants from the internet.

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