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  A Federal High Court in Lagos has ruled that the court lacks the power to try the offence of criminal defamation. The court stated this while dismissing two of the three counts of cybercrime charges brought against social media blogger, Mr. Chizorom Harrison Ofoegbu, popularly known as Ijele. SaharaReporters earlier on Friday reported that a Federal High Court in Lagos had struck out two of the three counts of cybercrime charges brought against the...

  Human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has given Chief Eric Umeofia, the Chief Executive Officer of Erisco Foods Limited 14 days to retract and apologise to him for the alleged defamatory statement against his person.   Effiong in a statement issued on Monday, said that in the pre-action notice his counsel, Femi Falana served Chief Umeofia and his company, he is demanding N100 million in damages with an apology letter which must be published in...