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  • Court dissolves 25-year-old marriage in Ekiti

     

    An Ado-Ekiti Customary Court has dissolved a 25-year-old marriage between Bello Catherine and her husband, Sule.

    The marriage was dissolved on grounds of frequent fighting, regular cursing, threats to life with charms and dangerous objects.

    Catherine, 68, resident of No 5, Orere-Owu, Ajibade street, in Ado-Ekiti, said she had known her husband for 25 years and their union produced three children, who are all married.

    She said the union produced three children, Taye Bello 25, female, Kehinde, 25 and Taye Bello,19, female.

    She said her husband threatened to kill her and he was fond of saying that he would make her father’s house desolate by destroying it.

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    Catherine said, he always threatened that he will use charm and waste her life.

    “My husband told me that he knows where I live and that he will come there to behead me with cutlass” she said.

    The petitioner therefore urged the court to separate them, as she does not want to have anything to do with him anymore.

    The President of the Court, Mrs Olayinka Akomolede, ordered that since the respondent had repeatedly shunned the court and vowed never to appear, consequently, dissolved the union.

    Akomolede, ruled that since the respondent has behaved in such a manner that the petitioner could not reasonably be expected to continue living with him and the petitioner has shown a formal act of tiredness, hence separated both parties.

  • I want divorce, I am battered, housewife tells court

    A housewife, Mrs Taiwo Simon, on Monday prayed an Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos to end her five-year-old marriage over alleged battery and threat to life by her husband, Jude.

     

    “My lord, there is no more love in our marriage. I want divorce. He constantly beats me; his beating caused me an eye defect.

     

    “He sleeps outside sometimes; when I ask him, he tells me I am not in a position to ask. If I persist, he beats me.

     

    “I want the court to dissolve our marriage, I don’t care if our only son is with him. I can’t endure him any longer,’’ Taiwo, 30, pleaded.

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    Taiwo also alleged that Jude was irresponsible and had yet to pay her bride price.

     

    However, 40-year-old Jude denied the allegations but consented to the divorce.

     

    He said that there was distrust between them on the eve of their wedding ceremony, and that it crept into their marriage.

     

    The President of the court, Mr Otun Olayiwola, adjourned the case until Dec. 6 for possible reconciliation.

  • Court dissolves four-year marriage over infidelity

    A Grade “C’’ Customary Court sitting in Iseyin on Monday, dissolved a four-year-old union between Adewale and Shade Ajala, over alleged case of infidelity.

    Our reporter gathered  that the estranged wife, Shade had approached the court in July seeking dissolution, alleging infidelity and dereliction of marital duties by Adewale.

    Adewale, who did not refute his wife’s claims, appealed to the court to help beg his wife for forgiveness and reconciliation during the trial.

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    Delivering judgment on the matter, the President of the Court, Chief Adelodun Raheem, said all efforts to settle the matter did not yield results.

    He explained that the matter had gone beyond redemption, more so as the union had not produced any child.

    Raheem, thereafter, dissolved the union accordingly and urged both parties to maintain peace.

  • I may jump into river, divorce-seeking wife tells court

    A 28-year-old housewife and mother of one, Mautin Idowu, on Wednesday asked a Badagry Customary Court in Lagos State to dissolve her five-year-old marriage to her husband, Michael, to prevent her from committing suicide.

    The petitioner threatened to jump into a river in the coastal city if the court declined to grant her request due to the alleged wayward behaviour of her husband.

    Mautin, a teacher in a public school, said that she was tired of her husband’s disrespect for her family, his intolerable behaviour and lack of love.

    “I was in 300-level at the Lagos State University Distance Learning Programme when I met Michael Idowu in 2012.

    “He was a teacher and I was teaching with my National Certificate in Education (NCE) then; he proposed to me but I rejected because he was older than me.

    “Michael told me that his wife divorced him with two sons and out of pity, I fell in love with him.

    “Few months after, he took me to meet his family. When I got pregnant in 2013, we got married and he paid my dowry.

    “But when I was seven months pregnant, I discovered that my husband had two wives and six children which he hid from me during our courtship.

    “He lied to me, my world broke down but I survived the trauma.

    “ Michael kept me in a two-room apartment in a bushy area, but I still managed to have my baby, ” the petitioner said.

    She told the court that her husband abandoned her and her baby and disrespected her parents by shouting at his mother-in-law and hanging up the phone on her father.

    The respondent was, however, not in court.

    The court’s President, Mr Sakirudeen Adekola, adjourned the case till Oct. 18 to give room for an amicable settlement between the couple.

  • Court dissolves 12-year-old marriage over lack of care

    Court dissolves 12-year-old marriage over lack of care

    An Ado-Ekiti Customary Court has dissolved the  12-year-old marriage between Mrs Toyin Adaraloye, and her husband, Ifeoluwa Adaraloye, over lack of adequate care for their children and ‎constant fighting.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the marriage is blessed with three children, namely: Opeyemi, 11, Joy, 8, and Posi,6.

    Toyin, 34, an hairdresser, who resides at No. 5, Acuna St., Ekute Quarters, Ado-Ekiti, in her petition, said after their traditional engagement, they had three children.

    Toyin said that she was no longer interested in the marriage because her husband refused to take care of the children.

    She also said that she no longer love Adaraloye because they fight frequently over his refusal to adequately take care of the children.

    Toyin told the court to dissolve the marriage because she was already pregnant for another man.

    She also prayed the court to award the custody of the children to her to enable her take good care of them.

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    Toyin requested for N10,000 as monthly upkeep for each of the children, adding that  Adaraloye should also be responsible for the education of the children at all levels.

    Adaraloye, 38, a furniture maker, who resides at No. 7, Igirigiri area of Ado-Ekiti, denied all the allegations leveled against him.

    He told the court that he paid N5,000 as dowry which had since been returned to him, adding that since then he did not know the where about of the petitioner and his three children.

    Adaraloye requested for the custody of the three children, assuring the court that he would remarry in April because he already had a lady that he wished to marry.

    The respondent said if he was eventually denied the custody of the children, he would pay N2,500 for each of the children as their monthly upkeep.

    He also assured that he would be responsible for the education of the children at all levels.

    The court’s President, Mr Joseph Ogunsemi, said that the marriage had broken down irretrievably and consequently dissolved the union.

    He awarded the custody of the only male child of the marriage, Posi, to the respondent, while the custody of the other two female children Opeyemi and Joy was awarded to the petitioner.

    Ogunsemi ordered the respondent to pay N5,000 as monthly upkeep on each of the two female children, and that the payment should commence from February.

    The president also ordered the respondent to be responsible for the education of the three children at all levels and ordered that the parties should have unrestricted access to the children.

  • Court dissolves 11-year-old marriage over husband’s constant battery

    Court dissolves 11-year-old marriage over husband’s constant battery

    After unsuccessful interventions to save 11-year-old marriage, an Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Tuesday dissolved the union of Mrs Adeola Olalere and her husband, Amidu over constant battery.

    In his judgment, the Court President, Mr Akin Akinniyi, said that the petitioner was adamant in seeking divorce in spite of mediation from the court and the family intervention.

    “Since the petitioner insisted on divorce after several interventions, the court has no choice than to dissolve the union in spite of the fact that the husband still claims he loves his wife.

    “The court pronounced the marriage between Mrs Adeola Olalere and Mr Amidu dissolved today; both parties henceforth ceased to be husband and wife.

    “Both are free to go their separate ways without any hindrance and molestation,” Akinniyi said.

    The petitioner, Adeola, had told the court that her marriage of 11 years to Amidu Olalere, had been full of bitterness from constant beating.

    “I have fainted seven times during frequent beatings by my husband and I was sometimes hospitalised and regained consciousness two or three days after.

    “Recently, he beat me to the point that I fainted and I was hospitalised for four days.

    “When I was on admission, none of his family members came to see me since we all live in a family house and my husband also refused to pay the bills.

    “There was a day he dragged me outside, stripped me naked and descended on me, using me as a punching bag and did not stop until he saw blood coming out of my body.

    “He is so rough, quarrelsome and violent in nature,” she said.

    The mother of four said that her husband drinks to stupor and smokes hemp, after which he usually lost control.

    “Whenever he brings his friends home to smoke and I complain, he will beat hell out of me and will not leave me until I fainted,” she said.

    Adeola, 39, also a trader alleged that her husband usually “collects money from me to give to his friends to buy hemp. If I refuse to give him, it is always war in the house’’.

    She begged the court to terminate the marriage on the ground that she was no longer interested, adding that her husband might kill her one day.

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    “Please end this loveless marriage. I may not be lucky to regain consciousness next time my husband beats me to pulp,” she urged the court.

    However, the husband, Amidu, did not deny the allegation of battery.

    “I beat her regularly because she is very stubborn and does not obey my orders.

    “Anytime we have misunderstanding and I slap her, she retaliates and that makes me to get angry the more,” he said.

    The embattled husband accused his wife of starving him of sex.

    “Whenever I reported her to her mother, she would ask me not to kill her daughter with sex, instead of admonishing her,” he said.

    The respondent said that his wife was found of going out without telling him her movement.

    According to him, I am the one cooking and washing our children’s school uniforms.

    “My wife moved out from home with the children in January, 2017 to stay with her mother and that whenever I called, her mother will rain curses on me.

    “There was a day my mother-in-law cursed me; I also cursed her that thunder will kill her,” he said.

    Amidu, however, pleaded with the court not to dissolve the marriage, saying in spite of her shortcomings, he still loves her.

    NAN

  • LG boss builds customary court, rehabilitates roads

    Chairman of Surulere Local Government, Hon. Tajudeen Ajide, has made bold his promise to touch the lives of indigenes following the rehabilitation of two roads in Oyekan and Small London areas of Surulere. He has also begun construction of new customary court in Surulere I Magisterial district, of Lagos State. A resident and shop owner, in Oyekan Street, Modupeoluwa Whesu, said the road used to be dusty and filled with pot holes making the residents to suffer in mucky waters whenever it rained.

    Similarly, Molade Kazeem, a carpenter who resides at the Low-Cost Housing Estate, popularly called Small London, at Babajide area of Surulere, hailed the efforts of the local council.

    “We are happy about the road rehabilitation. Also, street lights are being fixed and pot holes on other roads have been filled. We don’t experience traffic anymore,” he said.

    When contacted, Ajide informed that he has great plans for Surulere residents. “I am only doing my job. I am 100 percent focused on touching the lives of my people. We are going to all areas that need our attention and that is why we have met with the CDAs and they have told us what they want. We have empowered them too.”

    On the customary court, he added, “our preoccupation is to deliver legacy projects residents and the current local government administration would be proud of. The old structure was in such a terrible state that it posed danger to the lives of those working there.

     

     

    The ceilings had caved in and the roots of a tree planted on the premises were sprouting inside the main building. So, we thought it is important to build a befitting customary court.”

  • Court dissolves marriage over threat to life

    Court dissolves marriage over threat to life

    An Igando Customary Court on Monday dissolved a five-year-old marriage in which the husband, Mr Nicholas Johnson, accused his wife, Adesola,35, of threatening to set him ablaze, among other wrongdoings.

    Mr Moses Akinniyi, the president, Igando Customary Court, in a judgment, held that the couple had become tired of the marriage, and all efforts to reconcile both parties had failed.

    “Since both parties consented to the dissolution of their marriage, this court has no choice than to dissolve the marriage.

    “The court pronounces the marriage between Mr Nicholas Johnson and Mrs Adesola Johnson dissolved today; both parties henceforth cease to be husband and wife.

    “Both are free to go their separate ways without any hindrances and molestation,’’ Akinniyi ruled.

    Earlier, Nicholas Johnson, a 40-year-old businessman, told the court that his wife had accused him of infidelity and threatened to set him ablaze.

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    “Adesola often threatens to pour a keg of petrol on me and set me ablaze,” the petitioner said.

    He urged the court to dissolve the five-year-old marriage.

    “Whenever I go out and come back late, she will accuse me of being in company of a woman.

    “When I receive a call, she will say I am talking to my girlfriend and she will fight me.

    “In fact, I can no longer talk to a woman again,” he said.

    The petitioner also accused his wife of not respecting him.

    “My wife does not have regard for me. She always rains curses and abuses on me. Most times, she talks to me as if she is talking to her son,” he said.

    The petitioner said that his wife, a trader, packed some of his belongings while packing out of their matrimonial home.

    “My wife carted away with my food-warmer, freezer and my bag that contained valuable documents,” Johnson said.

    He said he was no longer in love with his wife.

    “Please, divorce this loveless marriage before Adesola will carry out her threat of setting me ablaze,” he pleaded.

    Adesola, in her response, said she accused her husband of infidelity because he was always in the company of a particular woman.

    She, however, denied threatening to set him ablaze or packing her husband’s belongings while leaving their matrimonial home.

    The 35-year-old trader also denied abusing or raining abuses on her husband, saying she respects him all the time.

    The mother of two, however, consented to the dissolution of the marriage, telling the court she was no longer interested in it.

    NAN

  • Two arraigned for assaulting policeman

    Two arraigned for assaulting policeman

    Two persons have been arraigned before a Customary Court in Esan North East local Government area for allegedly assaulting a Policeman, Sergeant Henry Uwagboe while performing his duty.

    The two persons, Mrs. Favour Osifoh and Mathew Eikhene were arraigned on a one count charge of assault punishable under section 356(2) of the Criminal Code Cap.48 Vol 11 law of defunct Bendel State of Nigeria 1979, now applicable in Edo State.

    They however pleaded not guilty to the charge.

    Barr. Kelvin Osifo, who doubles as the husband and brother in-law to the accused persons, informed the court that policemen manhandled his wife over her refusal to pay the sum of N30,000 as bail fee to release her younger brother.

    He urged the court to grant them bail.

    President of the court, R .I. Imafidon, granted the accused persons bail to the sum of N100,000 and N150,000 respectively and a surety each in like sum who must be resident with court jurisdiction.

    The case was adjourned to January 15, 2018 for further hearing.

  • Court dissolves 12-year-old marriage over lack of care

    Court dissolves 12-year-old marriage over lack of care

    An Ado-Ekiti Customary Court on Wednesday dissolved the 12-year-old marriage between Lekan Ajayi and his wife, Busayo, over lack of care, frequent fighting and desertion of matrimonial home for five years.

    In his judgment, President of the court, Mr Joseph Ogunsemi, said that the marriage had broken down irretrievably.

    “Both parties should go their separate ways and maintain the peace,’’ he said.

    Ogunsemi awarded custody of the first child to the petitioner (Lekan), while the second child was awarded to the respondent (Busayo).

    He ordered that the petitioner should pay N5, 000 monthly to the respondent for the upkeep of his child.

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    “The money should be paid to the registry of the court for onward delivery to the respondent,’’ he said.

    He granted unrestricted access to the children for both parties.

    Earlier, the petitioner, Lekan, 39, an automobile mechanic, told the court that his union with the respondent started in 2005 and she deserted him in 2012.

    He said that he has been the only one responsible for the education of his children since the respondent left him.

    Lekan said he was tired of the respondent unruly behaviour and her refusal to take correction.

    “She decided to pack out when she felt she could not abide with my instructions as the husband and father in the house,’’ he said.

    He appealed to the court to award the custody of the two children to him in order to enable him take good care of them.

    The petitioner urged the court ‎to dissolve the union for peace to reign in his life.

    The respondent, Busayo, 40‎, a cardigan weaver, denied the allegations made by her husband.

    She said it was the petitioner’s family that was partly responsible for their matrimonial crisis.

    Busayo said the petitioner’s life style also contributed to their problems, stressing that her husband was a drunkard.

    She urged the court to award the custody of her two children to her and demanded N15, 000 as monthly feeding allowances for the children.

    NAN