Defamation: Late filing of SERAP’s brief stalls appeals against N101m awarded to DSS officers

The planned proceeding by the Court of Appeal, Abuja, successful appeals filed the Incorporated Trustees of the Socio-economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, and its Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, to situation the N101 cardinal good imposed connected them for defamation was stalled connected Friday owing to the appellants’ precocious filing of their briefs.

The 2 appeals, filed by SERAP and Oluwadare, are against the May 5 judgement of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, successful which it was held that the radical and its lawman manager defamed 2 officials of the Department of State Services, DSS, done a mendacious work they made connected September 10, 2024.

At Friday’s proceedings, the archetypal appeal, marked, CA/ABJ/CV/1114/2026, filed by SERAP, was heard by a three-member sheet of the appellate court, presided implicit by Justice Danlami Senchi.

When the 2nd appeal, marked: CA/ABJ/CV/1105/2026 filed by Oluwadare was called, appellant’s lawyer, Hannah Ayanwale, told the tribunal that the entreaty was not ripe for proceeding arsenic the appellant conscionable filed his little connected Thursday an...