IN DAURA V DANHAUWA (2009) LPELR – 3714 CA AT PAGE 7 PARAGRAPHS C-E, the court defined the tort of defamation as;
“a statement made by a person against another, calculated to bring a plaintiff into hatred, ridicule, contempt, disrepute and Odium. It is a statement which tends to lower a person in the estimation of right thinking members of the society and which causes him to be shunned and avoided or which is calculated to injure him in his office, profession or trade”.