The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Abuja has issued a Notice of Consequences (Form 48) to Dr. Tonye Clinton Jaja, warning that he will be guilty of contempt of court and liable to be committed to prison if he fails to obey a subsisting restraining order barring him from making derogatory publications against Dr. Monday Onyekachi Ubani, SAN.
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The Notice of Consequences, dated January 12, 2026, and signed by the Registrar of the Court, was issued pursuant to Order IX, Rule 13 of the Court Rules.
The notice, addressed to Dr. Tonye Clinton Jaja of House 475B, 41, Crescent, Off 4th Avenue, Gwarimpa, Abuja, reads: “TAKE NOTICE that unless you obey the restraining orders of Hon Justice S.U. Bature, made on the 9th day of December 2025, directing you to stop making further derogatory publications against the person of Dr Monday Onyekachi Ubani SAN, you will be guilty of contempt of Court and will be liable to be committed to prison.”
The Notice of Consequences follows an interim order made by Hon. Justice S.U. Bature on December 9, 2025, in Suit No. FCT/HC/CV/4411/2025 between Monday Onyekachi Ubani SAN (Claimant/Applicant) and Barr. Lilian Okenwa (Editor in Chief, Law and Society Magazine) and Dr. Tonye Clinton Jaja (Defendants/Respondents).
Upon careful consideration of the Motion Ex-parte with Motion No. M/16245/2025 dated December 4, 2025, and the accompanying affidavit of Susan Nnenna Nwaze, and upon listening to Sir N.S.C Okoro, Esq., Counsel for the Claimant/Applicant, Justice Bature granted the following orders:
- An interim order restraining the Defendants, whether by themselves, agents, privies or howsoever called, from making further derogatory publications against the person of the Claimant, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
- An order directing the maintenance of status quo ante bellum, pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice.
- Service of the court processes on the Defendants/Respondents by substituted means.
The matter was adjourned to December 16, 2025, for hearing of the Motion on Notice.
The issuance of the Notice of Consequences comes after Ubani SAN’s solicitor, Nkem Okoro, Esq., in a recent press statement, accused Tonye Clinton Jaja of violating the subsisting court order by continuing to publish defamatory materials against his client.
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Okoro had stated that his firm has activated robust civil and criminal enforcement processes against Jaja arising from his alleged serial defamatory publications and contemptuous conduct.
He warned that all further defamatory publications would attract immediate and escalated legal consequences.
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