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  • ‘My wife is disrespectful, humiliates me in public’

    ‘My wife is disrespectful, humiliates me in public’

    A cleric, Raifu Tirimisiyu, has told a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan to grant him divorce from his estranged wife, Blessing, because she is disrespectful and humiliates him publicly.

    “Blessing has no regard  for me. She comes to my place of work to challenge and subject me to public embarrassment for no reason.

    “I have no peace in my home due to her troublesome character,” Tirimisiyu said.

    He pleaded with the court to give him custody of their child.

    Blessing was nowhere to be found when she was to open her defence, although she was around when the case began.

    The court’s bailiff said he served several hearing notices on her, but that she declined appearance.

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    Delivering judgment, the court’s President, Mrs S. M. Akintayo said there was nothing to be dissolved between Tirimisiyu and Blessing because there was no valid marriage between them in the first place due to absence of payment of bride price.

    Akintayo stated that that a man and a woman were living, and having children did not mean that they were married.

    She ordered them to go their separate ways since the petitioner was no longer interested in the relationship.

    The President of the court granted the order restraining the respondent from harassing, threatening, disturbing and interfering in the private life of the petitioner henceforth.

    Akintayo awarded custody of the child to Blessing because the child needs motherly care.

  • Fayemi, Bwari disrespectful, says House

    Fayemi, Bwari disrespectful, says House

    House of Representatives Leader Femi Gbajabiamila said yesterday the no-confidence vote passed on Minister of Mines and Steel Development Kayode Fayemi and Minister of State Abubakar Bwari by the House is not an extension of the face-off between the Executive and Legislature.

    He also said it was not meant to destroy Dr. Fayemi’s governorship ambition

    Gbajabiamila told reporters in Lagos that considering the weighty allegations of impropriety leveled against the ministry on the concession or re-concession of the Ajaokuta Steel Complex, it would have amounted to a dereliction of their duty for the House not to act on the issues.

    He said Dr. Fayemi and Bwari were “disrespectful” of the House of Representatives by their refusal to honour the invitation to brief the House on what was going on in Ajaokuta.

    Gbajabiamila said Speaker Yakubu Dogara personally wrote the minister 10 days ahead of the public hearing. He said: “But it was a day before the briefing that the minister called the ministry, to respond to the Speaker’s letter to the effect that he would not be coming and that the minister of state would also not be present.

    “That letter was written by the permanent secretary, which was a breach of protocol; because the minister did not deem it fit to respond to the Speaker who had written him personally. The permanent secretary gave excuses why the minister would not be there and why the junior minister would not be there and again the Speaker took pains to respond to the reply, insisting that it is a very serious matter and that the House has heard a series of allegations, which it doesn’t seem to be true.

    “But if you absent yourselves, you are only giving credence to those wild allegations. Yet again during the hearing, a hurried letter was dispatched to the Speaker on the floor of the House. The language of the letter suggested that they were going ahead with the concession or that it was a fait accompli and that what the House was doing was a waste of time.”

    He added: “The Sole Administrator of Ajaokuta Steel Complex, we understand, was also instructed not to come.” As result, members of the House were upset.

    ”We thought Ajaokuta required that kind of attention and we decided to invite all the stakeholders and some experts in that industry, to brief the House and by extension the public, as to what is going on in Ajaokuta.”

    The House Leader said he tried his best to save the situation, by moving a motion for the setting up of an investigative committee, to give the ministers further opportunities to tell their own side of the story.

    ”But unfortunately sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you can do nothing. If I did not move that motion, someone else would have done it. Then, it would give the impression that the Southwest is protecting its own. No, I had to do my job as the Leader of the House.”

    On the implications of the vote of no confidence motion, he said: “It has its implications. We are in a political terrain; it may have some implications. What the implication would be is everybody’s guess; I’m not going to go into that. I just hope that it doesn’t affect the ministers in a way that they would not be able to get out of it.”

    Fayemi had condemned the action of the lawmakers as “unwarranted and unfortunate”. In a statement by his media aide Olayinka Oyebode, the minister explained the rationale behind the failure of both ministers to appear before the House, saying it had been duly communicated to the leadership of the House in two separate letters.

     

  • Assembly to subpoena LBIC boss for ‘disrespectful act’

    Assembly to subpoena LBIC boss for ‘disrespectful act’

    The Lagos State House of Assembly Ad hoc Committee on Housing has threatened to subpoena  the Building Investment Company (LBIC) Managing Director Mrs Folashade Folivi for allegedly refusing to appear before it.

    Its Chairman, Olanrewaju Layode,  threatened to invoke Section 129 of the  Constitution, which gives the legislature power to subpoena anyone who disrespects it.

    He was reacting to Folivi’s alleged refusal to appear before the panel, which is looking into complaints against the demolition of  some structures in some low-cost housing estates in the state.

    Layode noted that Folivi  failed to show up when the panel did on-the-spot assessment of issues raised in the petitions.

    “The House mandated us to investigate the demolition of some structures in the estates. The House is acting on petitions received against LBIC and we have been working on them. This is the second time the LBIC boss failed to show up, I hope she would not do that again. She has issues and she did not show up for the meeting we called, this is so bad.

    “We can invoke our authority and order that she should be arrested if she does not show up, but I pray it does not get to that. She still has a duty to obey us because we appropriate money for her agency.

    “We allocated N2 billion to the agency this year alone from tax payers’ money. Even in the last budget reordering, we allocated money to her agency. We know what to do at the right time,’’ Layode said.

    According to him, the meeting was organised to enable LBIC state its own side of the story.

    A member of the committee, Abiodun Tobun, who frowned at the absence of the LBIC representative, said the essence of governance were the people, which the lawmakers represent.

    Tobun said: “What we intend to do is to mediate and resolve the situation. The MD of LBIC must be here to defend herself on why she has taken some actions, since she is not on her own but serving the people of Lagos.”

    On November 23, Folivi appeared before the assembly, which summoned her for allegedly disrespecting one of its committees.

    Acting chairman of the House Committee on Urban and Physical Planning, David Setonji accused her of disregarding  the committee.

    But Folivi denied the allegation and later   sent a letter, seeking the rescheduling of the meeting with the Layode panel.

  • Osorio slams ´disrespectful´ Gimenez

    Osorio slams ´disrespectful´ Gimenez

    Mexico coach Juan Carlos Osorio slammed the “disrespectful” Jose Maria Gimenez following an altercation at the Copa America Centenario.

    Goals from Rafael Marquez, Hector Herrera and an own goal from Alvaro Pereira saw Mexico claim a 3-1 win over Uruguay in their Group C opener in Glendale, Arizona.

    Both sides finished the game with 10 men in a fiery encounter, with Matias Vecino and Andres Guardado sent off for Uruguay and Mexico respectively.

    However, Uruguay defender Gimenez was involved in a post-game altercation with Osorio, after the Mexico coach advised his players to exploit the 21-year-old’s weaker left foot.

    According to Osorio, Gimenez misinterpreted the message he had given to his Mexican players, and confronted the Colombian at full-time.

    “He understood [the message] in his own way, and he came over to attack me after the game,” Osorio said.

    “Any coach in the world has the right to direct a game around the weak foot of any player. I used to say to the players when I was [assistant] at Manchester City to take advantage of David Beckham’s weaker foot.

    “I would like to say it again, like I said to him, it is a behaviour that is disrespectful, inappropriate for a professional.

    “He is playing at one of the best clubs in the world, Atletico Madrid, and one of the best national teams in the world, and this behaviour cannot be accepted.”

  • APGA to Anyanwu: you’re disrespectful

    The Imo State All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has berated the Senator representing Owerri Central, Mrs Chris Anyanwu, for quarrelling with Governor Rochas Okorocha.

    The party accused the senator of disrespecting the Office of the Governor and other constituted authorities in the state.

    APGA noted that the senator’s feud with Okorocha was not the first time she was showing disregard for constituted authorities.

    It said she had a similar encounter with former Governor Ikedi Ohakim and a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Innocent Nwoga, with who she allegedly fought in public.

    Addressing reporters in Owerri, the state capital, APGA Chairman Prince Okafor Anyanwu alleged that Anyanwu “has the antecedent of disrespecting her elders and constituted authorities as well as fighting in the public.”

    He added: “It is on record that the senator had a similar encounter with the former Governor Ikedi Ohakim and, on another occasion, slapped Chief Innocent Nwoga, a PDP chieftain, and broke his walking stick. She also assaulted a commissioner in the state.”

    Anyanwu described Okorocha as “a man too frightened to tell the truth about simple matters”.

    She added: “This incident is a message to the governor. He can’t brutalise the people that he is elected to serve and protect and hide behind propaganda and lies. All lies being fabricated to mask the truth of his brutality are doing him indelible harm globally.”

    In a statement by her Senior Assistant (Political), Chief Obinna Ibe, the senator alleged that Okorocha had brutalised her workers on a number of occasions.

    She said: “Barely three months after his victory, the governor instructed his men to attack one of my drivers for packing my car inside his compound.

    “The governor’s police detail broke a bottle to cut the lips of the driver. Till today, the boy’s upper lip is deformed. We covered it for him then. But this time, he cannot hide behind the shield of a folk hero. He has opened himself up by his propaganda. Now, the world is seeing the real man behind the angelic smile.”