FAMILY LAW, MARRIAGE & DIVORCE

An official of Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Thursday bemoaned the rate at which young couples divorce. Koledoye Adeniyi, the court’s president, said this during the dissolution of marriage between Olubunmi Adebanjo and Balogun Adebanjo on grounds of abandonment and constant battery.…

A Civil Servant, Ibe Kufu, on Thursday prayed a Customary Court in Jikwoyi, Abuja, to grant him a divorce on grounds that his wife squandered the N2 million he gave her to start a business. The petitioner who resides in Abuja said this…

A court sitting in Jos, Plateau State, has ruled that a woman whose husband divorced her before he died was entitled to his property. The woman was married as a second wife to Malam Kabir (late) but he did not inform his…

A trader, Mrs Rashidat Ogunniyi, who accused her husband of loving his dog more than her, yesterday got her wish as the Igando Customary Court in Lagos dissolved her marriage. The President of the Court, Mr Adeniyi Koledoye, held that the repeated refusal…

A transporter, Oluwaniyi Olajire, on Friday, begged a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve his marriage, citing his wife’s promiscuous habit. In the petition, Mr Olajire, who resides in Onikoro-Akobo area in Ibadan, also alleged that his wife dresses provocatively. ”I have been…

A mother of three, Olamide Lawal, on Friday pleaded with a Grade ‘A’ Customary Court in Mapo, Ibadan to grant her divorce on grounds that her husband, Saheed Lawal, engages her with too much sex. In her petition, Olamide who lives in…

The Shari’a court ll sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna on Wednesday ordered a woman, Rahma Usman to move out of a house belonging to her former husband, Abdulbasit Sulaiman in 72 hours. The judge, Malam Murtala Nasir, gave the order in a ruling…