On 20th March 2025, Honourable Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court, Lagos ordered MTN Nigeria Communications Limited (“MTN” or the “Defendant”) to pay ₦840,000,000.00 (Eight Hundred and Forty Million Naira) in damages to Citilink Accesscorp Limited (“Citilink” or the “Plaintiff”) for infringing on its registered trademark, “WEBPLUS.”
Brief Facts
Citilink registered the mark “WEBPLUS” in 2001 under Class 9 of the (9th edition of the Nice classification); scientific and technological apparatus, computer software and related goods, and subsequently renewed the mark in 2014. Sometime in 2014, Citilink by its Writ of Summons and accompanying processes all dated July 16th 2014 and filed on July 17th 2014, initiated legal proceedings against MTN, alleging unauthorized use of the WEBPLUS mark through MTN’s services branded as “MTN WEBPLUS” or “WEB+.”
