Defamation, in law, is the act of communicating false statements about a person that result in damage to that person's reputation.

Owing to recent jurisprudence, debate has arisen amongst jurists and legal scholars on the necessity of calling third-party evidence to prove a cause of action in civil libel (i.e. written defamatory statement).

The digital shaming and/or digital defamation of debtors by Loan Apps and other categories of Digital Money Lenders ("DMLs") in Nigeria is on the rise.

Talk is cheap but the liberty to create a social media account and surf the internet is not a universal license to contribute to or escalate reputational or physical harm.

By virtue of increased internet penetration in Nigeria, Social Media has garnered millions of users; in some cases it has become a mainstay for communication ...