FAMILY LAW, MARRIAGE & DIVORCE

A divorce-seeking woman, Temilade Rasheed on Wednesday, told a Mapo Grade ‘A’ Customary Court in Ibadan that her husband, Adeboye Rasheed hates her for giving birth to three girls. Temilade, in her testimony before the court, while seeking dissolution of her marriage, urged…

The supposed 22-year-old marriage of one Joshua Ajagunigbala and Rita Ajagunigbala has been declared illegal by an Ekiti State Customary Court sitting in Ado Ekiti because payment of dowry was not involved in the union. The President of the Court, Mr Joseph Oyedele…

A Grade I Area Court in Kubwa, Abuja, has dissolved a one-year marriage between a businesswoman, Nafisat Mohammed, and her estranged husband, Salisu Isah, on grounds of lack of peace. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the judge, Mr Yahaya Sheshi, dissolved…

A businessman, Awaisu Jibril, on Wednesday, appeared at a Shari’a Court sitting at Rigasa, Kaduna, for allegedly marrying five wives, contrary to Islamic teaching. The prosecutor, Insp. Sambo Maigari had told the court that one Musa Abdullahi, a community leader, had reported the…

A man identified as Sunday Enejo, has begged a Customary Court in Jikwoyi, Abuja not to grant his wife, Rose, divorce until she swears before “Aniku” (a holistic deity) that she was not having an extramarital affairs. The wife, who is a businesswoman,…

A Spanish court ordered a man to pay his ex-wife 200,000 euros for 25 years of unpaid domestic labour, based on the minimum wage throughout their marriage, court documents showed Tuesday. The man was ordered to pay her “204,624.86 euros ($218,300), calculating the…

One Mrs Ojoma Noel has dragged her husband, Thomas Noel, before a customary court in Nyanya, Abuja, for allegedly denying her of matrimonial rights and domestic violence. Mrs Noel, a businesswoman, who asked the court to end her marriage, said her husband no…

An Upper Shari’a Court in Kano State on Thursday dissolved the marriage between Asiya Ganduje and Inuwa Uba. Asiya is a daughter of Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje. The Judge, Malam Abdullahi Haliru said the marriage was ended through Khul’i (divorce by Islamic means). The…

The police on Wednesday arraigned a man, Edmund Uzoma, before a Yaba Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, for alleged bigamy. Uzoma was arraigned before Magistrate Adeola Olatunbosun on three counts of bigamy and falsification of information on a marriage certificate. The prosecutor, Idowu Osungbure, told…

A  drama played out in Rano Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano State after a woman, Malama Khadija, dissolved her own marriage and married her daughter’s suitor. The incident happened after the daughter, Aisha, rejected her suitor, with the mother saying…