According to police prosecutor Nosa Uhumwangho, the offences were committed between December 2023 and February 2024.
A blogger Adewale Ajimisogbe has been convicted for cyberbullying and defaming the General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, Dr Daniel Olukoya.
He was convicted by Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa who delivered the verdict after Ajimisogbe entered into a plea bargain agreement with the police and pleaded guilty to all charges.
Ajimisogbe and a former MFM member, Ayotunde Richards, were arraigned on March 20, 2024, on a 12-count charge bordering on conspiracy, cyberbullying, and libel.
While both men faced three joint charges of conspiracy to commit cyberstalking and defamation, Ajimisogbe alone faced nine additional counts of libel.
According to police prosecutor Nosa Uhumwangho, the offences were committed between December 2023 and February 2024.
He told the court that Ajimisogbe used his blog, “Postreporters,” to publish a defamatory article titled: “He is a criminal and behind all illegal acts – Ex-MFM Church singer sues founder Daniel Olukoya and others, seeks N15.5bn in damages for illegal detention and breach of human rights.”
Uhumwangho said the publication violated Sections 27 and 24 of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015.