The Lagos State High Court on Tuesday delivered a major ruling against social media critic Martin Otse, widely known as VeryDarkMan (VDM).
The court ordered VDM to pay a hefty fine of ₦500 million for defamation and instructed him to retract defamatory statements and videos concerning prominent lawyer and human rights advocate Femi Falana (SAN) and his son, musician Folarin Falana, popularly known as Falz.
Justice M. O. Idowu, presiding over the case (suit no: ID/8584/GCM/2024), emphasized that the comments made by VDM were "defamatory and injurious" to the public reputations of Falana and his son.
The court noted that VDM's allegations, which linked the Falanas to controversial Nigerian personality Bobrisky, were false and intended to damage their standing.
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