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My husband is a lazy man, separate us: wife begs court

A Customary Court in Mapo, Ibadan, on Tuesday dissolved a 21 year-old marriage between one Ibrahim Tajudeen and his wife Idowu over laziness and irresponsibility.

The President of the court Mr Ademola Odunade, who granted Idowu’s request for dissolution of the marriage, said a peaceful coexistence between hus band and wife was necessary in any marriage.

“It is our duty as a court to ensure peace wherever there is trouble.

“The union between Idowu and Ibrahim has ceased to be henceforth.

“Custody of the three children produced by the union is awarded to Ibrahim,” Odunade said.

Narrating her case, Idowu, a mother of three, told the court that Ibrahim was a lazy and irresponsible man.

“My lord, Ibrahim is so lazy to the extent that even when I took it upon myself to get him a job, he chose to be lazy.

“I have tried times without number to ensure that he is productively engaged, but Ibrahim kept telling me that he is not strong.

“Besides, he is so troublesome that I can no more cope with his troubles.

“Worst still, I have been reduced to almost nothing because Ibrahim does not give the children and I any form of care. He neither clothes our nakedness nor does he provide for our food,
we are just there.

“I am principally responsible for the children’s education and other needs.”

She said she was also responsible for the payment of the house rent since 2016.

“There is no more love between us, please, separate us,” Idowu pleaded.

However, Ibrahim denied all the allegations against him and rejected the divorce suit.

“My Lord, I have a well established car wash service and so it is not true that I am lazy.

“I provide Idowu’s needs according to my capability.

“I have been responsible for everything in the house and I will continue to perform my duty,” Ibrahim said. (NAN)

October 24, 2017
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.

October 17, 2017
Court dissolves ex-Super Eagles coach, Onigbinde’s 30-year-old marriage

A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan has dissolved the 30-year-old marriage between Chief Adegboye Onigbinde and his wife Anne, because there was no more love between the two.

President of the court, Mr Ademola Odunade, however, directed the former Super Eagle Technical Adviser to “pay a cash sum of N5, 000 to enable Anne move her belongings out of his house.”

Onigbinde had gone to the court asking it to dissolve the marriage, saying his wife was “ a wasteful spender and an unrepentant troublemaker.

“My lord, with my 79 years of age, I cannot continue to die in silence of Anne’s litany of problems.

“Among many other troubles I have encountered in the hands of Anne, I have also suffered uncountable financial losses during the process of trying to give Anne means of livelihood so that she wouldn’t be idle.

“On three separate occasions, I have established veritable business ventures for her and on each occasion, Anne wrecked the business.

“I can’t continue in such wastage. For many years, Anne has been a thorn in my flesh through ceaseless trouble-making as it is one day, one trouble in my home.

“Can you imagine that it was not until only one week to the wedding ceremony of the only daughter she had with me that she informed me?

“In fact, Anne has openly turned that daughter against me because she doesn’t take any instruction from me.

“Anne is now a bad influence on the daughter and she doesn’t even have any good relationship with the rest of my children.

“For instance, when I lost my younger brother, Anne and her daughter refused to be sympathetic by registering any form of condolence.

“The list of her misbehaviour is endless, please terminate our union.”

Anne had however opposed the request for divorce and denied all the allegations levelled against her by Onigbinde.

“My lord, I have done everything possible to please my husband, but he is refusing to be pacified.

“Ever since he got married to another wife 10 years ago, things have changed from bad to worse, as I no longer know how to do things in his presence.

“Since then, Onigbinde’s body language is for me to vacate his home; he no longer finds happiness in me.

“On a particular day, just as I opened the door, I came across a snake waiting to harm me, but I raised alarm and it was killed.

“My lord, it was never in our agreement to be parting ways in this manner.

“In the interest of the child between us, I have nowhere to go, please, help save my marriage,” Anne pleaded.

September 21, 2017
Court dissolves four-year-old marriage over missing placenta

The Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, on Friday dissolved a four-year-old marriage between Musa Busari and his wife, Kafilat over issues of missing placenta and irresponsibility.

President of the court, Mr Ademola Odunade, held that there was little or nothing the court could do on the matter as evidence had shown that the couple had agreed to part ways over irreconcilable differences.

Dissolving the marriage, therefore, Odunade ordered that the man should be giving N3,000 as monthly feeding allowance for each of the two children produced by the union.

He directed that Kafilat should have the custody of the twin children “because they are still legal minor while Busari should be responsible for their education, health and other forms of welfare’’.

Earlier, Kafilat had told the court that her husband and his relatives collaborated to steal her baby’s placenta for ritual.

“Shortly before moving into Busari’s home in 2012, I was already pregnant with a set of twins for him.

“It happened that I gave birth to one of the two children in my father’s home, and on the following day after moving to his home, I had the second child.

“I was very weak because I was in pains, but I discovered that the placenta that came with the child was nowhere to be found.

“I asked his relatives that were around me, but they gave me no useful information as to the whereabouts of the placenta.

“It is the same question I have continued to ask till today, but the only answer Busari gave me is to forget it and to make it a secret between his family and me,’’ she said.

She claimed that because of the missing placenta, Kehinde, the second child, had been having nightmares.

“He shouts in his sleep, regularly fall sick and many more spiritual problems have befallen him as we are regular visitors to the hospital.

“Worst still, Busari does not show any form of responsibility either towards the children or I, and instead, fights me.

“Busari and his relatives are diabolic; the only solution is separation,” Kafilat said.

Busari, who welcomed the divorce, however, denied the allegations against him.

He told the court that he was a peace-loving husband who did everything within his capacity to cater for Kafailat and the children.

“Kafilat is just out to tarnish my image due to her greed.

“On the issue of catering for the sick child, Kafilat wanted me to start going the fetish way and I made her to understand that it is only prayer that could do it as an Alfa,” Busari, an Arabic teacher, said

August 12, 2016