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  • Teenagers in court over alleged false accusation of private part disappearance

    Teenagers in court over alleged false accusation of private part disappearance

    Three teenagers who allegedly beat up a man they falsely accused of taking the private part of one of them, on Wednesday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court.

    The police arraigned Salihu Bala, 20; Masahudu Abubakar, 20; and Alhasan Mohammed, 20, on a three-count charge of conspiracy, assault and breach of peace.

    The teenagers, whose addresses were not disclosed, assaulted one Mr Gbenga Afuye on Sept. 25 at Ogba Bus-Stop in Lagos, according to the prosecutor, Insp Victor Eruada.

    ‎“They descended on Gbenga Afuye by giving him punches and inflicting injuries on his mouth.

    “People around rescued Gbenga from the accused and reported the case to the police, and they were arrested,” he told the court.

    He said the offences contravened Sections 173, 411 and 168 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 (Revised).‎
    The teenagers, however, pleaded not guilty and were granted bail by Magistrate G.O. Anifowoshe in the sum of N50,000 each with two sureties in like sum.
    Anifowoshe ordered that the sureties must be blood relations of the accused and should provide evidence of tax payments to the Lagos State Government.

    The magistrate adjourned the case until Nov. 7 for mention.

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  • Court acquits nurse of murder charge

    After four years of trial, an Ikeja high court has discharged and acquitted a 55-year-old nurse, Nkese Iroakasi, of the offence of murder.

    Justice Raliat Adebiyi pronounced Iroakasi  not guilty of the murder of her ward, Eno Bassey, aged nine.

    The court held that the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.

    Iroakasi was facing a charge of murdering Bassey at her residence on 7, Adeniran Ogunsanya Street, Surulere, Lagos at 2.30pm on July 27, 2013.

    “The prosecution failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the deceased died as a result of the defendant’s action. She is hereby discharged and acquitted and shall be released forthwith from custody,” the judge held.

    During trial, the prosecution led by Mrs R.O Ahmed-Muili, had alleged  that Iroakasi set Bassey alight over an allegation that she (Bassey) stole a piece of meat.

    It was further alleged that Bassey, after being set ablaze ran outside their house into the streets with the flames on her body.

    The prosecution said the flames were doused by passersby whom she allegedly told that her boss set her alight because of theft.

    Five witnesses- a security guard, an architect who was a passerby, two police officers and a medical doctor testified during the trial.

    Iroakasi, in her defence on March 20, denied the claims of the prosecution.

    According to her, Bassey had set herself ablaze while playing with the kerosene stove in the kitchen.

    Adebiyi in her judgment, held that the evidence of the prosecution was not strong enough to secure a conviction.

  • Court stops banks from operating accounts without BVN

    Court stops banks from operating accounts without BVN

    •Directs them to disclose accounts’ owners
    •Funds in accounts to be forfeited if unclaimed in 14 days

    Bank account owners who are yet to have a Bank Verification Number (BVN) run the risk of forfeiting their money to the federal government within the next two weeks unless they can justify their ownership of such accounts.

    A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted a temporary forfeiture order on such accounts.

    It also restrained commercial banks from operating such accounts for the meantime and directed them to disclose the owners of the accounts and the status of the funds in them.

    Justice Nnamdi Dimgba handed down the order on October 17  while ruling on an ex-parte motion filed by the Federal Government and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF).

    Affected by the orders are Access Bank, Citi Bank, Diamond Bank, Ecobank, Fidelity Bank, First Bank, First City Monument Bank, Guaranty Trust Bank, Heritage Bank, Keystone Bank, Skye Bank, Stanbic IBTC, Standard Chartered, Sterling Bank, Union Bank, Unity Bank, United Bank for Africa, Wema Bank and Zenith Bank.

    The ex-parte motion – FHC/ABJ/CS/911/2017- was filed on September 28 this year and argued by the plaintiffs’ lawyer, A. D. Tyoden.

    It was brought pursuant to the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Know Your Customers Guidelines and Section 3 of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act of 2011 as amended.

    The enrolled orders from the ruling reads: “That the 1st – 19th defendant banks shall disclose: (a) the names of the accounts as operated; (b) account number(s); (c) outstanding balances (d) domiciliary accounts and (e) the branch/location where the accounts are domiciled of all accounts without BVN.

    “That the 1st – 19th defendant banks to disclose any investments made with funds from these accounts without BVN in any products including fixed/term deposits and their liquidation and interest incurred, bank acceptances, commercial Papers and any other relevant information related to the transaction made on the accounts.

    “That an order is hereby made freezing the said accounts by stopping all outward payments, operations or transactions (including any bill of exchange) in respect of the accounts pending the hearing and determination of the substantive application.

    “That an order is hereby made directing the 1st to 19th defendant banks to disclose any investments made with funds from these accounts without BVN in any products including fixed/term deposits and their liquidation and interest incurred, bank acceptances, commercial papers and any other relevant information related to the transaction made on the accounts.

    “That an interim order is hereby made directing the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigeria Interbank Settlement Systems to validate the information contained in the affidavit of compliance/disclosure filed by the respective 19 banks within seven days from the date of service on the Central Bank and NIBSS.

    “That an interim order is hereby made appointing a Bank Examiner from the Central Bank of Nigeria to examine the books of any bank that fails to comply with the order of the honourable court to file affidavit of disclosure.

    “That an interim order is hereby made granting leave to the applicants or any officer authorised by them to advertise the accounts without BVN disclosed by the bank in a widely circulated national newspaper as notice to any person or body corporate or financial institution who may have any interest in any of the said accounts to claim ownership of same within 14 days of the publication of the order and show cause why the proceeds in the account should not be permanently forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.”

    Further hearing in the case was fixed for November 16.

    At the last count, the Central Bank (CBN) had issued 30,511,506 BVNs.

    The Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) says  a total of  45.85 million bank accounts remain unlinked although  when compared with the active accounts the number stood at  15.72 million unlinked to BVN as at  February 2017.

    Even before the court order the CBN had issued a memo warning the banks and NIBSS, Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) and Other Financial Institutions (OFIs) to ensure proper capturing of the BVN data and validate same before linkage with customers’ accounts; ensure all operated accounts are linked with the signatories’ BVN; and ensure customer’s names on the BVN database are the same in all of his/her accounts, across the banking industry.

    The CBN Director of Banking and Payment System, Mr. Dipo Fatokun, who signed the memo asked the banks to report confirmed fraudulent individuals’ BVNs to NIBSS for update of the watch-list database; report the BVN of deceased customers to NIBSS for update on the BVN database; render returns to NIBSS for enlisting individuals involved in confirmed fraudulent activities, with the report signed by the chief audit executives.

    The apex bank requires NIBSS to ensure BVN data are stored within the shores of Nigeria and shall not be routed across borders without the consent of the CBN while users of the BVN information shall establish adequate security procedures to ensure the safety and security of its information and those of its clients, which shall include physical, logical, network and enterprise security.

    The BVN was launched on February 14 2014 for the purpose of registering all customers in the financial system using biometric technology.

    Biometric technology involves the process of recording a person’s unique physical traits such as fingerprints and facial features.

    Each registered person is then given a BVN number that is unique to him.

    The objective according to the CBN is to protect bank customers, reduce fraud and further strengthen the Nigerian banking system.

     

  • Court orders interim forfeiture of ex-minister’s 14 houses

    Court orders interim forfeiture of ex-minister’s 14 houses

    Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the interim forfeiture of 14 houses in “choice areas” of Abuja. They are believed to be owned by former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Bala Mohammed and his son, Shamsuddeen.

    The judge gave the order yesterday while ruling on an ex-parte application brought by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

    Justice Dimgba ordered the EFCC to publish a notice in a newspaper and on the EFCC’s website “inviting all persons/bodies, who may have interest in the properties to show cause why the said properties should not be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.”

    The EFCC stated in the ex parte application that Mohammed and his son have denied either owning the properties or having any link with them.

    The commission said the preliminary investigation it conducted revealed that the properties listed on the schedule, attached to the application, were unlawfully acquired through corrupt practices by Mohammed and his son, when he was in office as Minister of the FCT.

    The properties, according to the EFCC included one “mansion” located at Sunrise Estate, Asokoro; three sets of four-bedroom semi-detached duplex at Green Acres Estate, Apo-Dutse;  two sets of four-bedroom fully detached duplexes each with a boys’ quarters on Gana Street, Maitama, Abuja, close to Transcorps Hilton Hotel, Abuja.

    The EFCC also listed a four-bedroom detached duplex with boys’ quarter located at 9, Platinum Luxury Home White Estate, Asokoro, Abuja.

    From some documents attached to the application by the EFCC, facilities in ?some of properties include “excellent road and drainage network; dedicated transformer; borehole for constant water supply; fitted kitchen, bedroom cabinet and wordrobes; ample parking space; and children playing ground”.

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    The rest of the properties are plots of land in six different locations in Abuja. They include the one located at Karasana West, Abuja, measuring 84,657.30m2; Industrial Area 1 Extension, Abuja, measuring 1.45Ha; and Guzape, Abuja measuring 2.7Ha.

    Others were located at Industrial Area 1 Extension, Abuja, measuring 1.26Ha; Karasana West, Abuja measuring 64,507m2; and Dakibiyu, Abuja measuring 1,251.15m2.

    Before yesterday’s order, the EFCC had previously seized some properties from Mohammed and his son, who are both being tried in separate courts in Abuja. Mohammed is being tried before a High Court of the Federal Capital territory (FCT), while his son is on trial before Justice Dimgba.

    The EFCC stated in an affidavit supporting its ex-parte application that “the crux of the application is that the respondents are being investigated for offences bordering on abuse of office, fraudulent land scams, corruption and corrupt practices, money laundering an?d diversion of revenue of government while being the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja”.

    It also stated that the properties traced to the father and son were “reasonably suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities and crimes, kept and concealed in the names and proxies and nominees of the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohmmed, and his son, Shamsuddeen Bala Mohammed and for their benefit have been recovered and seized”.

    The EFCC said the properties were held in the names of different companies and one Maimuna S. Aliyu.The commission described Aliyu as Bala’s proxy allegedly used to the houses 1A and 2A of No. 7 Gana Street Maitama, Abuja.

    The companies in whose names some of the properties were said to be held are Intertrans Global Logistics/Bird Trust Agloallied Limited, Gal Vac Mining Limited, and Diakin Telecommunication Limited.

    Giving the details of its investigation, the EFCC maintained that the former minister and his sons are the owners of the of Diakin Telecommunications Ltd, Bal-Vac Mining Ltd, Bird Trust Nig Ltd and Intertrans Global Logistics Ltd, and Intertrans Global Logistics Ltd  in whose names some the properties were acquired.

    The commission also alleged that Mohammed, while still being the FCT minister appointed JemilaTangaza as Special Assistant and, thereafter, Director of Abuja Geographic Information System (A018) “to facilitate fraudulent allocations of plots of land to her and her proxies and nominees in choice areas”.

    The EFCC alleged that the plots of lands were sold and their “proceeds laundered in the acquisition of some these houses like House No 9 Plantinurn White Estate Abuja, acquired in the name of Mohammed Musa.”

    It said Intertrans Global Logistics Ltd was linked to the son of the former minister, Shamsuddeen.

  • Police arraign man for stealing cooking pot at Ibadan Poly

    Police arraign man for stealing cooking pot at Ibadan Poly

    An accused criminal pretending to be scavenging around the premises of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Olalekan Rauf, 33, was Wednesday arraigned before a Magistrate court holden in Iwo-road area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on a two-count charge of conspiracy and unlawful possession.

    The accused was arraigned with charge number MNE/35362017.

    The prosecutor, Inspector E. Adeyeye told the court that the defendant and one other person on October 12 around 2pm entered the house of one of the senior staff of the institution to steal some valuable items.

    A security officer of the institution who arrested the accused, Mr. Yahaya Taofeek said Rauf pretending to be a scavenger‎ picked some unuseful metals around the institution but later burgled a three bed-room flat belonging to one of the senior staffs of the institution who was outside the state on an education tour.

    According to Taofeek, before the defendant was arrested, he had destroyed all the stolen iron and metal items included in the items he stolen so as for people to believe the items are no more useful.

    The stolen items include; cooking iron pot, stabilizer, computer set, palm slippers, electricity change over and cooking gas.

    He said when he apprehended him, the defendant pleaded that he was going to cooperate with the security of the institution if they promise not to injure him, adding that the other member of the gang had fled.

    However, the accused, pleaded not guilty of the charges when it was read to him in court.

    The senior magistrate, S. O Babalola granted him N20,000 bail with two surety and adjourned the case to November 20thfor the further hearing.

  • Court orders Abaribe to produce Kanu

    Court orders Abaribe to produce Kanu

    A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe and two others, who stood surety for Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu to account for his whereabouts.

    Justice Binta Nyako gave the order at the resumed trial of Kanu and three others yesterday when his (Kanu’s) lawyer Ifeanyi Ejiofor could not explain why his client was absent in court and where he was.

    Also ordered to account for Kanu’s whereabouts are Tochukwu Uchendu (a businessman) and Jewish Chief High Priest Immanuel -El Shalom Oka-Ben Madu.

    The judge gave the order in a ruling she delivered after the prosecution demanded that Kanu’s sureties be make to produce him and the IPOB leader’s lawyer denied knowledge of his whereabouts.

    The judge said: “The sureties are to show cause why he is not in court and why I should not issue a bench warrant against him.

    “The second surety (Senator Abaribe) will only be recused or excused from the bail suretyship when the 1st defendant is produced or if he decides to forfeit his bail bond.”

    “The prison authorities are hereby directed to allow the medical doctor of the 4th defendant access to his prison records and treatment following laid down prison procedure. I will extend this to the 3rd defendant.

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    “All pending applications pending before the court will be taken in the course of proceedings,” Justice Nyako said.

    Kanu and three other member of his group  are being tried on a five-count charge of treason related offences.

    The court, however granted only the IPOB leader bail on health grounds on April 25.

    Abaribe, Uchendu and Madu stood surety for him to guarantee his continued attendance of court until the trial is concluded, failing which they would forfeit the N100million bond they each signed or be committed to prison until Kanu is found.

    Others being tried are: Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi.

    When the proceedings began yesterday, prosecuting lawyer Shuaibu Labaran noted that Kanu was absent in court.

    Labaran contended that Kanu’s absence was a violation of the bail granted him and the order that he must attend court until the trial is concluded.

    He urged the court to revoke the bail, issue a bench warrant for Kanu’s arrest and invite his three sureties to produce him or forfeit the N100 million bond they each signed and/ or be committed to prison.

    When Labaran took his seat, Kanu’s lawyer attempted to blame his client’s absence on the military.

    He claimed that Kanu had planned to attend court, but that since some soldiers invaded his house on September 14 this year, he (Kanu) had not been seen.

    The judge interjected and asked Ejiofor to limit his submission to what was before the court, particularly as it relates to why his client was absent.

    Ejiofor said he did not know why his client was absent. He also said he had not seen him since the military invaded his home.

    Another lawyer, Obiechi Ogbonna, who represented Abaribe, said his client did not also know where Kanu was and had applied to withdraw as his surety.

    As he indicated his intention to argue the application he filed for Abaribe, the judge noted that it was not yet time for that, and the senator could not recuse himself as surety when Kanu had not been found.

    Justice Nyako told Ogbonna that his client had three options.

    The first option, the judge said, is for Abaribe to produce Kanu.

    Abaribe will remain a surety until Kanu is found. He can thereafter decline to be a surety, and the court returns Kanu to prison until he perfects the bail again.

    The second and third options, the judge said, are that Abaribe either forfeits his bail bond of N100 million or appeals to the court for time to search for and produce Kanu.

    Ogbonna chose the third option and urged the court to allow his client time to produce the IPOB leader.

    The second defendant’s lawyer, Efa Ika, told the court that he was new in the case and was familiarising himself with the history of the trial.

    Mr. Adoga, who appeared for the third defendant said he had filed five applications for his client, seeking several prayers, including the transfer of the case to Owerri; an order quashing the charge, an order granting him bail and an order allowing him to stand trial alone on a separate charge.

    Maxwell Opara, who represented the fourth defendant, said he had two applications pending before the court, one seeking to compel prison authorities to allow his client access to his personal physician, and the other, that his client be granted bail.

    Upon agreement by lawyers in the case, the judge adjourned till November 20 for Kanu’s sureties to explain where he is and why he did not attend court.

     

  • Court: Kwara council poll to go on

    A Kwara State High Court yesterday dismissed a suit by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop the November 18 council election.

    The PDP, through its lead counsel, Salman Jawondo, approached the court to restrain the Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission (KWASIEC) from conducting the election.

    Joined in the suit is the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice Kamaldeen Ajibade (SAN).

    PDP hinged its claims on the alleged unconstitutionality inherent in KWAISEC’s guidelines for candidates.

    It asked for an order of interlocutory injunction restraining KWAISEC from enforcing, giving effect to, and or applying some sections of the Kwara State Electoral Law, Laws of Kwara State 2006 and guidelines for the election, pending determination of the substantive suit.

    PDP argued that the 2006 local government electoral law, passed by the House of Assembly, is inconsistent with the National Assembly Act and the 1999 Constitution.

    The party averred that some requirements in the law and guidelines are preconditions not within the purview of the 1999 Constitution as amended, and the 2010 Electoral Act as amended.

    It listed such requirements as screening and disqualification of candidates by KWAISEC.

    However, Justice Sulaiman Akanbi said there was nothing unconstitutional in the legislation passed by the House of Assembly.

    He, therefore, ordered the electoral umpire to go ahead with the elections.

    “What the House of Assembly did constitutionally and additionally is to aid the federal law; the state law is not inconsistent with the Electoral Law. The House of Assembly did not run foul of the Constitution, rather, it complemented it.

    “It is clear that the action of the House of Assembly is constitutionally guaranteed as regards the council elections. Section 106 of the Constitution is also emphatic on this. I, therefore, resolve the two issues raised by the claimant in favour of the defendants.”

  • Court refuses publisher’s request for arbitrators

    Lagos State High Court in Igbosere has dismissed an application by a publishing firm, Cassava Republic Press Ltd, seeking the appointment of arbitrators to settle its dispute with an author, Ayobami Hanif Mohammed.

    The court also refused the firm’s prayer to compel the parties to adopt Lagos as the arbitration venue in respect of a January 7, 2010 Memorandum of Understanding.

    In a judgment delivered on September 21, Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo held that Cassava Republic’s application was misconceived and without merit.

    The firm brought the application on the grounds that: “the parties have failed to agree on the number of arbitrators and the specific arbitrators required to settle their dispute”; and that the “parties have failed to agree on the state and venue at which the arbitration will take place.”

    It will be recalled that earlier in the year, Mohammed had addressed reporters following a case his counsel instituted against Cassava Republic Press Ltd, a publishing firm which published his book; Last Days at Forcados High School alleging that his royalty was not fully paid.

    The publishing firm had instantly fired back via a rejoinder, claiming that a case filed by Mohammed’s counsel was belated and an abuse of court process since Cassava Republic had earlier filed an action at the High Court of Lagos State.

    In his ruling however, Justice Onigbanjo granted the applicant’s notice of preliminary objection urging the court to dismiss same.

    Onigbanjo said: “Upon a careful consideration of the notice of preliminary objection and the entirety of argument proffered in support by counsel, I totally agree with submission proffered in opposing same to the effect that the preliminary objection is wholly misconceived, same being predicated on counsel’s erroneous confusion of the position of the law regarding that proceedings initiated by way of originating summons with the position in this suit which was clearly initiated by originating summons as argued by counsel in support of the notice of preliminary objections.

    “I shall, therefore, in view of the foregoing dismiss the notice of preliminary objection in limine as being totally misconceived in the circumstances without more.

    “The notice of preliminary objection dated 20-04-2017, is hereby ordered dismissed.”

    Justice Onigbanjo added that since both parties had agreed on the choice of Abuja as venue for the arbitration, the court was not entitled to intervene except where otherwise consented by the parties.

    The judge said since both parties did not agree on the number of arbitrators, the court would invoke Section 6 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act; he pegged the number of arbitrators to three.

    “The foregoing being the case can only mean that the respondent is on firm legal grounds by proposing three arbitrators, proposing one Mr Andy Orji and Abuja as the arbitration venue in clause 7 of his notice of arbitration a copy of which annexed to the affidavit in support of this application,” the ruling further stated.

    “Consequently, I have no doubt that this application is misconceived and lacks merit having been predicated on alleged failure of parties to agree on the state and venue for arbitration as well as the number of arbitrators or specific arbitrators to settle parties’ dispute and which grounds I find totally misconceived bearing in mind the clear contents of the binding contractual agreement between parties and respondent’s notice of arbitration copies of which are annexed to this application by the applicant.”

     

  • Court remands man, 82, for allegedly defiling girl, 13

    An octogenarian, Pa Ayoade Omobolaji, was yesterday remanded at Kirikiri Prison by an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old girl.

    Omobolaji, 82, will remain in custody pending the perfection of his bail conditions.

    He was arraigned before the Magistrate, Bola Osunsanmi, on a one-count charge of unlawful sexual intercourse.

    Police prosecutor Simon Imhonum alleged that the defendant committed the offence on September 25 at 26, Amosu Street, Obadore, Igando, Lagos.

    The charge reads: “That you, Ayoade Omobolaji, on September 25 at 26, Amosu Street, Obadore, Igando, Lagos did forcefully and unlawfully defile a 13-year-old girl by having sexual intercourse with her and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011.

    The defendant pleaded not guilty.

    Osunsanmi granted him bail at N500,000.00 with two sureties.

    She said the sureties must work in a reputable organisation, own property in the jurisdiction, show evidence of tax payment in the last three years, all of which must be verified.

    The magistrate adjourned the matter till November 21 for trial.

     

  • My husband is a hooligan; separate us, woman tells court

    My husband is a hooligan; separate us, woman tells court

    Mr Ademola Odunade, the president of a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, on Tuesday, acceded to the request of a petitioner, Mrs Bunmi Olatunji for the dissolution of her 12-year-old marriage.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the woman, a housewife and mother of three, had approached the court to dissolve her union with Samuel Olatunji, accusing him of hooliganism and irresponsibility.

    Odunade held that it was obvious that things had completely fallen apart irretrievably between the couple, hence the need for the marriage dissolution.

    “In the interest of peace, the union between Bunmi and Samuel has ceased to be henceforth.

    “Bunmi will take custody of the last two children and Samuel will take custody of the first.

    “Samuel will pay a monthly feeding allowance of N8,000 for the upkeep of the two children in addition to being responsible for their education and other welfare,” the court president said.

    In her petition to the court, the woman, who earns her livelihood as a hair stylist, told the court that her husband, Samuel, was a hooligan and lacked any sense of responsibility.

    “Maybe I would have had a change of mind if I had known that Samuel was going to be a hooligan 12 years ago when I was exchanging conjugal vows with him on the altar.

    “Shortly after our wedding, Samuel started showing the stuff he is made of through his acts of hooliganism.

    “Whenever Samuel is not in the police cell for causing violence, he will be in the hospital, receiving medical treatment for the injuries sustained in violent fights.

    “As if that is not enough, he lacks every sense of responsibility that any good husband should have.

    “Samuel neither takes care of me nor our three children; rather, after getting intoxicated with alcoholic drinks, he turns me into a punching bag.

    “In a nutshell, I am completely tired of his troubles and I no longer love him; please, separate us,” Bunmi pleaded.

    However, Samuel, who agreed to the divorce, denied all the allegations brought against him.

    He said that Bunmi was a blatant liar and had adopted cheap blackmail to tarnish his image in order to make the court do her wish.

    “My lord, Bunmi is a dirty drunk, who is not fit to be a housewife anyway; she neglects all her other conjugal responsibilities and starves me of sex, which is supposed to be one of her primary responsibilities.

    “Without any further wasting of time my lord, I am no more interested in having Bunmi under my roof, separate us,” Samuel said.

    NAN reports that before the divorce suit, Bunmi had moved out of her matrimonial home at Ita Bale, Ibadan and now resides at Mokola area of the metropolis.