divorce cases in nigeria

A pastor, Segun Olawoyin yesterday dragged his wife, Funmilayo Olawoyin to a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, seeking the dissolution of their 20-year-old marriage. Segun accused his wife of being stubborn, non submissive, irresponsible and always instigating their children against him. The...

An Igando Customary Court in Lagos State on Tuesday dissolved the five-year-old marriage between Mr Chukwuma Onwumere and his wife, Obianuju, following the respondent’s threat to the petitioner’s life by always twisting his testicles anytime they were fighting. The president of the court, Mr...

A civil servant, Micheal Ayinde, on Wednesday pleaded with an Igando Customary Court in Lagos to end his marriage because of his wife’s penchant for making babies. Ayinde, 39, told court that his wife, whose name he gave as Glory, enjoyed “giving births at will’’. According to him, Glory...