The Lagos State High Court at the Tafawa Balewa Square has ordered celebrity broadcaster Toke Makinwa and the publisher of her book 'On Becoming' to each pay one Maje Ayida, said to be her ex-husband, N500,000 damages for defamation.

The judge ordered Makinwa and Kachifo Limited to pay the money to “any charity organisation of the claimant’s choice.”

The court said in the same judgment by Justice Olukayode Ogunjobi, that the defendants must within 30 days delete defamatory words against Ayida from unsold copies of the book.

The judge identified the defamatory portions of the book to be expunged as “Page 54, Line 11-16 and Page 83, Line 1.”

The court judgment came three years after Ayida, through his lawyer, Kemi Pinheiro (SAN), dragged Makinwa and Kachifo Limited to court in suit number ID/ADR/820/2017, demanding N100m in damages and a perpetual injunction halting further publication of ‘On Becoming’.