Comedian AY drags ThisDay Newspaper to court over defamation

<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4182" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;thedailypage&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;03&sol;imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-4N0AhHyy6Un&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"938" height&equals;"651" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;0000ff&semi;"><strong>By Temi Joshua<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nigerian stand up Comedian&comma; Ayodeji Richard Makun popularly known by his stage name&comma; AY has sued Nigerian popular Newspaper&comma; ThisDay newspaper over defamation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>The Daily Page <&sol;em>learnt that the newspaper published a report on their website on Sunday 21st February 2012 with the headline&colon;  &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;PR Job Gone Sour&colon; Why Friends Of Belema Oil Founder&comma; Tein Jack Rich&comma; Aren’t Happy With AY The Comedian”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; AY has served the ThisDay newspaper with a court documents&comma; demanding a immediate retraction of the post by his attorneys&comma; <strong>Pentagon partners&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Bloggers on the other hand have continued to capitalise on these social cancer to drive traffic to their platforms without any form of fact findings or verification&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he captioned the court documents&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;