My wife going abroad with her lover, husband tells court

 

A businessman, Nurudeen Lawal, on Friday pleaded with the Oja-Oba Sharia Court in Ibadan to dissolve his marriage because his wife allegedly abandoned him to make a foreign trip with her lover.

Lawal told the court that his wife of 19 years, Waliat Lawal, abandoned him to follow her concubine, who promised her trip to the UK.

He said, “My lord, one day, Waliat told me that her ex-lover had obtained an international passport that would enable her to travel to the United Kingdom with him.

“I was dazed by this announcement but I felt that she was in a `trans’.

“About three days after, I interrogated her again on the inconceivable news she gave me and Waliat repeated the same thing.

“She was unaware that I recorded her statement.

“I explained the development to her relatives but rather than change for better, Waliat grew more wings negatively.

“On another occasion, she was unaware that I had returned home one evening, I overheard her discussing with her mother on how the new introduction she wanted to do with her secret lover would go.

“Worst still my lord, she stated, during some of the settlement meetings that she would never return to my house with jilbab (long and loose-fit garment covering woman’s her body and face).

“This is what I can never take as an Alfa. Any woman who will marry me must cover her face with veil.

“Waliat has been going to Abuja for all sorts of extra-marital activities with her concubine from the ‘O-YES’ work she told me she is doing in Osun.

“I have numerous evidences of her acts of infidelity outside her matrimonial home.”

Waliat did not deny telling Nurudeen that her ex-lover was making plans to take her to the UK.

In her defence she said, “My lord, I only acted in good faith by letting him know what was happening to me.

“If I had meant bad, I could have completed everything without his knowledge.

“Nurudeen was the one who destroyed his home by going out to tell the whole world unfounded stories about me.

“Among other things, he told people that I make him to undergo difficulty before having sexual intercourse with me and refusing to allow in-laws to enter our house.

“My lord, Nurudeen is such an ingrate because I was always there for him when he had nothing.

“But he treats me with disdain now that he is okay.

“I have made several reconciliatory efforts to reunite and settle our differences but he has remained adamant.

“He has not actually told me how I have hurt him before throwing me out of his home and marrying another wife.”

The President of the court, Sheikh Ahama Tiamiyu, ruled that the truth had been revealed, considering the evidences produced by Nurudeen and the statement made by Waliat.

However, Tiamiyu admonished Nurudeen to forgive, forget and exercise more patience as Waliat had realised her mistakes.

He adjourned the matter till Nov. 17 for further hearing.

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62 years old man seeks divorce over religious matters

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A 62-year-old man, Adesanya Akanni, is seeking the dissolution of his 32-year-old marriage to Florence Akani, over religious differences.

Adesanya Akanni approached a Lagos Island Customary Court, Lagos on Thursday complaining that wife’s continued practice of her Christian faith was adversely affecting the family.

The petitioner claimed that his marital problems started about 26-years ago, when his wife, Florence resumed the practice of her Christian faith.

He also alleged that she changed the names of their five children to Christian names without his consent.

Akanni said, “Our five children were given Muslim names at birth, Kaosara, 32, Kudirat, 25, Mubarak, 22, Azeez, 19 and Musa, 17.

“Their mother and the Church she attends, have now changed their names to Oluwatomi, Victoria, Oluwasegun, Oluwarotimi and Peter respectively.

“I did not know until I went to the school of my last two boys to ask for Azeez and Musa but officials of the school claimed they did not have students bearing those names.

“It was when I mentioned their surname that I was told that they now bear Oluwarotimi and Peter.”

The petitioner also said he was not informed when his first daughter got married and gave birth to her two children.

“The Church and my wife gave out my daughter, without informing me; she gave birth to her two children. My wife and daughter did not tell me anything.

“We live under the same roof and over the past two years, my wife has stopped cooking my meals. She does not allow me to make love to her,’’ Akanni said.

Akanni, however, prayed the court to dissolve their marriage and award custody of the last two children to his wife, Florence, 61, who denied all the allegations.

She explained that Akanni did not insist that she should convert to Islam after their marriage, stressing that at the time of their marriage, “my husband was not a practising Muslim.

“I started attending Church when I had an 8-year delay after our first child; he used to accompany me to Church but later stopped and then prevailed on me to discontinue attending Church.

“This our fight over religion has been ongoing for years, but I have refused to stop going to church because God has been answering my prayers.

“After eight years of believing God for the fruit of the womb, God gave me, not just one but three other children. I have been taking them to Church ever since.

“When our first daughter wanted to get married, I informed my husband but he said our daughter should go and `meet her father in the church’.

“He had vowed he would not be part of the wedlock, unless our daughter  re-converted to Islam,”

The mother of five, told the court that she still loved her husband but, ‘I cannot convert to Islam’.

The president of the court, Mr Awos Awosola, adjourned the case to Nov. 30 to enable other members from both families to mediate on the matter.

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IDPs: Number drops from 60,000 to 18,958

The National Emergency Management Agency says  the number of Internally Displaced Persons in Yola, Adamawa, has dropped from 60,000 to 18,958.

Mr Sa’ad Bello, the Head, NEMA Operation Office, Yola, disclosed this on Friday during an oversight visit by the Senate Committee on NEMA to the IDPs camp in Damare, Yola.

A statement signed by Mr Sani Datti, Head, Media and Public Relations of NEMA, quoted Bello as saying that the drop is as a result of voluntary return of the IDPs to their homes.

While expressing satisfaction with the progress so far made in the camps, Bello said there was tremendous enrollment of school-age children in schools.

“So far, over 900 Internally Displaced Children enrolled in various camps in the state,’’ he said.

The Senate Committee Chairman on NEMA, Sen. Abdulazeez Nyako, commended the agency for its consistence in rendering humanitarian services in Nigeria especially to the less privileged.

He said the committee was satisfied and convinced with the way NEMA was managing available resources and taking proper care of the IDPs.

However, Nyako noted shortage of water supply in some camps as a serious problem and promised to invite the Ministry of Water Resources to address the challenge.

“We are going to support NEMA to lead and coordinate all activities of humanitarian organisations in the country,’’ he said.

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My husband denied me sex for seven years

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A housewife, Jelila Nurudeen, on Friday asked an Ojaoba Sharia Court, Ibadan, to put an end to the union with her husband, Nurudeen Olanrewaju, on grounds of sexual starvation for over seven years.

The mother of three in her petition alleged that her husband was subjecting her to emotional torture by starving her of sex for seven years.

“My lord, all the interventions made so far by this court has yielded no results as Olanrewaju has turned no new leaf.

“I may soon run mad if the court fails to separate us, because I can no longer withstand seven years of sexual drought.

“Should I start visiting the homes of some of the committee members set up to reconcile us to meet my sexual desire?

“Please I am ready to walk away from this union because Olanrewaju has already remarried to another wife, who is now satisfying his emotional desire,” Jelila explained.

However, Olanrewaju, who denied the allegation, rejected the divorce suit.

Olanrewaju who works at Nigeria Tobacco Company Ibadan, said he has been living happily with Jelila and promised to still make his wife happy.

President of the court, Sheikh Ahamad Tiamiyu, advised Jelila to give peace a chance by allowing the committee raised on the matter to do their work.

Tiamiyu adjourned the case till Nov. 17, for progress report.

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