A Chief Magistrate Court in Wuse has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of social media influencer and activist, Martins Otse, better known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), for allegedly defaming renowned gospel singer Mercy Chinwo.

Magistrate Emmanuel Iyana made the ruling on Thursday, directing the Nigeria Police Force and other law enforcement agencies to arrest VDM and bring him before the court to face the charges brought against him by Chinwo.

The court’s decision follows VDM’s failure to honor a summons issued on March 5, compelling him to appear in court. Magistrate Iyana dismissed a plea from VDM’s counsel, Deji Adeyanju, requesting that his client be allowed to appear personally at the next hearing.

Mercy Chinwo, in her lawsuit filed on March 3, accused VDM of making defamatory statements against her in several posts shared across his social media platforms in February. The posts accused her of breaching her contract with her former record label, owned by Ezekiel Onyedikachukwu, and allegedly diverting funds from shows without compensating the label as required by the contract.

Chinwo’s lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, stated that the claims made by VDM were “malicious and damaging” to the singer’s reputation. Olajengbesi pointed out that VDM, despite not being involved in the dispute between Chinwo and the record label, presented the matter in a manner that tarnished the singer’s public image.

Olajengbesi further asserted, “The Claimant avers that she has neither had any form of relationship with the Defendant nor was the Defendant involved in the issue between the Claimant and Mr. EeZee Tee in any material particular. The statements made by the Defendant in his viral videos were false, damning, and injurious to the Claimant’s public image.”

In the legal suit, Chinwo seeks a court order requiring VDM to remove the defamatory posts from all his social media platforms. The lawsuit also demands that VDM publish a retraction and an unreserved apology to Chinwo on all his social media platforms and in two widely circulated national newspapers.

Additionally, Chinwo is seeking N1 billion in general damages for defamation, N100 million in punitive and aggravated damages, N25 million for the cost of the suit, and 10% interest on the judgment amount until it is fully paid. She also demands that the apology be published in four national dailies for at least 14 consecutive days.

This case follows an earlier controversy where Chinwo accused her former label owner, EeZee Tee, of exploitation, threats to her safety, and spreading false rumors about the paternity of her child. In an Instagram video, Chinwo claimed that EeZee Tee had threatened her safety, prompting her to relocate from Lagos to Port Harcourt.

Popular content creator Ifeluv has announced her break-up with her fiancé and baby daddy, singer Oluwadolarz.

SOCIETY REPORTERS reports that the development comes four months after singer Oluwadolarz proposed to Ifeluv.

In a post on her Instagram page on Tuesday evening, Ifeluv accused Oluwadolarz of infidelity and financial irresponsibility.

In a lengthy statement, she claimed that he had failed to fulfil his promises after their engagement.

She wrote: “I left him the first time because of cheating. He spent two years trying to convince me that he had changed.

“Meanwhile, I have been taking 85 per cent responsibility for our child because he is broke most of the time. Just living a fake life and chasing anything in a skirt. He absolutely has nothing to his name. If you give him an advert deal, he won’t deliver.

“Brands keep threatening him, and every time he sees me achieving something, he starts crying because he hates it. But guess what? I make my own money.

“I rarely even visit him. He even embarrassed me online with a public apology, and I let it slide, accepting his proposal—only to go pick up my son at his place and find his actress, Lola, hiding in the bathroom. And this guy looked me dead in the eye and said nothing was going on!

“This man was my absolute first. But now? It’s over.”

Oluwadolarz has not responded to the allegations at the time of this report.

Controversial singer, Habeeb Okikiola, aka Portable, has warned men to stay away from his wife, Ashabi Simple.
The singer stated that any man who sleeps with his wife will end up dead. Portable gave the warning while reacting to Nollywood actor Babatunde Bernard Tayo, aka Baba Tee’s confession of sleeping with his colleague Ijoba Lande’s wife, Darasimi.

Speaking via a series of voice notes shared on Instagram, Portable expressed his disappointment over Baba Tee’s action.

In the voice notes, Portable condemned his action, stressing that he has so much respect for the actor and never expected him to do such a thing.

He said, “Baba Tee, with the way I like you so much, you shouldn’t be sleeping with other people’s wives.

“You gave Lande’s wife doggy, is that how you people behave in the movie industry? I swear to God, if anybody moves close to my own wife, the person would die o, my wife that is an actress, if I see anybody doing rubbish with her, the person will die. I’m telling you because it should not be like that. Why would you sleep with that guy’s wife? And I like and respect you o.

“Normally, the person who sleeps with another man’s wife is not at fault but why did you sleep with another man’s wife? Don’t you know it’s a dirty thing that causes setback? You that you’re a blessed person.

“A man who sleeps with another man’s wife despite knowing her husband, it’s a setback for him. God won’t let you see set back bro. With the way women are many in the world, you’re now allowing that man molest you, even if though his wife is a dog.

“Please o I’m begging you in God’s name, you know you come to visit me a lot and we both visit each other, it won’t be good if we become enemies.

“Now that Truth or Dare is what you’re using to sleep with other people’s wives, please stop it, it’s not good egbon.