Blogger Maureen Omorinola Badejo
The UK-based Nigerian blogger, Maureen Omorinola Badejo, will be arraigned at the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, on Thursday, 20th February 2026, on a six-count charge bordering on defamation.
According to the charge sheet number: 5/2/845/6, the charge is between the Inspector General of Police and the defendant, MAUREEN OMORINOLA BADEJOH [F]
The six-count charge stated inter alia;
COUNT 1
That you, Maureen Omorinola Badejo (F) and others now at large, sometime in the month of November 2021, at Lagos, Nigeria, and within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did conspire amongst yourselves to commit a felony to wit: defamation, by agreeing to publish and transmit defamatory statements and videos against Apostle Johnson Suleman and Dickson Osagie, and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 516 of the Criminal Code Act, Cap C38, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
COUNT 2:
That you, Maureen Omorinola Badejo (F) and others now at large, sometime in the month of November 2021, at Lagos, Nigeria, and within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, unlawfully published and transmitted through your YouTube Channel and Facebook platform, defamatory statements and videos
portraying Apostle Johnson Suleman as a cultist, rapist, assassin, ritualist, and other criminal designations, knowing such statements to be false, and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 376 of the Criminal Code Act, Cap C38, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
COUNT 3:
That you, Maureen Omorinola Badejo (F) and others now at large, sometime in the month of November 2021, at Lagos, Nigeria, and within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, knowingly and intentionally sent false messages and videos through a computer network via your YouTube Channel and Facebook platform containing allegations against Apostle Johnson Suleman, which you knew to be false, for the purpose of causing annoyance, insult, injury, hatred, ill will, and criminal intimidation, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 24(1)(b) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015.
COUNT 4:
That you, Maureen Omorinola Badejo (F) and others now at large, sometime in the month of November 2021, at Lagos, Nigeria, and within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, unlawfully published and transmitted through your YouTube Channel and Facebook platform, defamatory statements alleging that Dickson Osagie was an accomplice to crimes including rape and ritual killing, knowing such statements to be false, thereby committing an offence punishable under Sections 376 of the Criminal Code Act, Cap C38, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
COUNT 5:
That you, Maureen Omorinola Badejo (F), sometime in the month of November 2021, at Lagos, Nigeria, and within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, knowingly and intentionally transmitted through your YouTube Channel and Facebook platform, false and defamatory statements against Apostle Johnson Suleman and Dickson Osagie, which placed them in fear of death or bodily
harm, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 24(2)(a) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015.
PRELIMINARY REPORT AND PETITION BY AN AGGRIEVED CITIZEN, HIS PRICIPAL AND THE ORGANIZATION THEY REPRESENT
On 15th January 2022, a Nigerian, one Mr Pickson Omodiale Osagie, of Global Security Analyst, claimed to be a security consultant to Apostle Suleman, dispatched a petition on behalf of himself and his principal, apostle Suleman, highlighting aggravated damages to their persons and their reputation among others.
Below is the petition to the Inspector Gneral Police. And several reactions by the police to the call for justice by the citizens felt mlign and subjugated culminated in the arraignment to be witnessed at the Ikoyi High Court.
COMPLAINT BY DICKSON OSAJIE AGAINST MAUREEN BADEJO ON THREATS TO LIFE, CYBERSTALKING, HARASSMENT, BLACKMAIL, DEFAMATION, INVASION OF PRIVACY, UNWARRANTED AND PERSISTENT INTERFERENCE WITH OUR LIVES.
I am a law abiding citizen and I want to bring to your attention the unwarranted and persistent cyberstalking, harassments, insults, abuses and threats to m members of my family, my principal, his family and his ministry. My name Dickson Omodiale Osajie and I am the Security Adviser to Apostle Johnson Suleman, who gave me his consent to write this petition and to represent him on this matter before the Nigeria Police Force.
Sir, in November, 2021, one woman by name Maureen Badejo, who stays in Luton, United Kingdom, published twenty four (24) defamatory videos on her Youtube channel and Facebook page, saying that my principal Apostle Johnson Suleman, is a cultist, a killer, a member of Illuminati society and all sorts of negative, embarrassing, harassing, threat to life and, false information about him. I have the video clips with me as evidence.
On January (2022) she forwarded live videos to her Facebook and YouTube page that my principal slept with a mother and daughter which never. As if all these unwarranted cyberstalking were not enough, Maureen Badejo went ahead and published my private telephone numbers, the private telephone numbers of my principal, the pictures of his wife and child on Facebook and youtube, which has exposed us to undue fear, restlessness ridicule and threat calls to our lives.
She has since then been on the internet almost on a daily basis cyberstalking asking her viewers to call and harass him that he is a fake man of God, and a fake miracleopastor. Since then, as the Security Adviser to Apustle Johnson Suleiman, I have been receiving series of death threats from unknown persons. I have evidence of all these inimical and damaging behaviors of Maureen Badejo on us.
Neither my principal nor I, as a person or any of our family members had ever offended her in any way.
The actions of Maureen Badejo have made us unsafe in the eyes of the public
because the public is now seeing us as dubious, cheats, dishonest, and persons to be avoided to the extent that we are now afraid to walk in the public. Maureen Badejo is now demanding that my principal must buy a car for one of his former workers who left for reasons known to him.
We are convinced that the Nigeria Police Force have all the tools to deploy in order to bring back Maureen Badejo to Nigeria to face the wrath of the law.
Thank you Sir for your expected consideration.
Yours faithfully,
Pickson Omodiale Osajie
Global Security Analyst.
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