- Tonto Dikeh faces a ₦200 million lawsuit after performing a controversial deliverance session on a schoolgirl, together with her lawyer arguing the act violated the kid’s dignity, privateness, and uncovered her to potential psychological trauma.
Nollywood actress and self-proclaimed evangelist Tonto Dikeh is dealing with a ₦200 million lawsuit following a viral video exhibiting her performing a spiritual deliverance session on a schoolgirl.
The swimsuit was filed by human rights lawyer Ikechukwu Obasi on the Excessive Courtroom of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, below the Elementary Rights (Enforcement Process) Guidelines 2009. Obasi represents the minor, a Junior Secondary College 1 scholar from Rivers State attending college in Abuja.
In response to Obasi, the incident occurred on March 6, 2026, after viral images and a video appeared on Dikeh’s official Fb web page. “Within the footage, the actress allegedly carried out a spiritual exorcism on the schoolgirl, throughout which the kid was laid on naked floor and pressed in opposition to a stony floor,” the lawyer acknowledged.
Obasi argued that the act subjected the kid to “degrading remedy, public hum+liation, and potential psychological tra¥ma.” He additionally claimed that publishing the pictures and video on-line violated the woman’s proper to privateness below the 1999 Structure and the Youngster Rights Act 2003, probably exposing her to ridicule and discrimination.
The swimsuit seeks a number of declarations and orders in opposition to Dikeh, together with ₦200 million in d@mages for violations of the kid’s rights to dignity and privateness. As of now, the Excessive Courtroom has not but assigned a listening to date.