indeed, before the court there is no any proof of the allegations they published in their Newspaper. That marked the end of Defense case. At the end of the hearing, parties filed their final submissions. In his submission, the Petitioner’s counsel tried to convince the court that, the witnesses proved the case to the standard required while, Defendants’ counsel on the other hand insisted that, the Petitioner was not defamed. Having captured both parties’ evidence, gone through the exhibits as well as serenely perused the final submissions, my duty now is to determine the parties’ dispute guided by the framed issues. To start with the first issue as to whether publications by the Respondents were Defamatory to the Petitioner. In the matter under scrutiny, at the outset, I find it germane to understand the meaning of Defamation as define by various scholars and case laws. According to the Halsbury's Laws of England Vol. 28 Fourth Edition at page 7, Defamation is defined as: "A statement which tends to lower a person in the estimation of right thinking members of society generally or to cause him to be shunned or avoided or to expose him to 16