Lagos Impart Excessive Court docket in Ikeja has ordered Nollywood actress, Doris Ogala, social media influencer, Martins Vincent Otse, popularly identified as VDM, and one Kelvin Chimaobi Emmanuel to chorus from releasing movies and photos of the founder of Grace Nation World, also identified as Liberation City, Pastor Chris Okafor, across social media or any varied media platforms.

Twinny News reports that Justice Akintunde Savage, who gave the ruling on Thursday, also restrained Doris and VDM from declaring or relating to Pastor Chris or his ministry, whether orally or in writing, on any platform, pending the probability of a substantive swimsuit filed by the cleric.

The Decide further restrained the defendants from releasing to the public or to third parties any affords allegedly intended to blackmail or extort money from the claimant, pending the rest probability of the swimsuit.

Okafor is the claimant within the swimsuit marked ID/14399GCMW/2026, while Doris Ogala, VDM, and Kelvin Emmanuel are listed as the first, second, and third defendants, respectively.

The ex parte utility was once introduced pursuant to Mumble 43, Guidelines 1, 2, and 7 of the Excessive Court docket of Lagos Impart (Civil Blueprint) Guidelines 2019, as effectively as beneath the courtroom’s inherent jurisdiction.

In his ruling on the utility filed by Okafor by means of his counsel, Ife Ajayi, Justice Savage also barred the defendants and their brokers from publishing, releasing, or circulating any alleged personal affords concerning to the claimant, along with chats, conversations, text messages, photos, photos, or movies.

Justice Savage also granted an uncover for substituted carrier of the claimant’s originating processes, along with the writ of summons, listing of witnesses, statements on oath, and varied paperwork, by means of e-newsletter in a national newspaper.

The topic was once thereafter adjourned to February 2, 2026, for listening to.