JUSTICE Y. O. IDOWU (Delivering the Judgment): This suit was commenced by a writ of summons and statement of claim dated 25 March 2002. The claimant is claiming;
1. An order that the defendants withdraw or cause to be withdrawn from circulation within and outside Nigeria all the printed and distributed Sandtex 2002 calenders.
Alternatively
The defendants should be ordered jointly/or severallynto publish a letter of apology to the plaintiff, the content of which must be approved by his solicitor in a widely circulated and read daily newspaper.
2. The payment of the sum of ₦100 million (one hundred million naira only) as aggravated and/or exemplary damages against the defendants"
The claimant averred that on 24 January 2002, a personal friend of his called his attention to the year 2002 calendar of the 1st and 2nd defendants known and referred to as the “2002 Sandtex calendar” in which he discovered the following:
That the photographs of his personal and family residence known as No. 46,…