My husband slept with my sister and friends – wife tells court

A 57-year-old trader, Mrs. Chima Udemi, has told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Wednesday that her husband, Tobechukwu, was an irresponsible father, unrepentant adulterer, who has slept with her sister and friends.

Our Correspondent reports that the trader said so while responding to a suit filed by Tobechukwu, who had accused her of infidelity.

“Tobechukwu is a serial womanizer; he sleeps with my younger sister and my friends. He had once abandoned me and our seven children and relocated to his mistress’ house.”

“He is an irresponsible husband and father. I struggled doing unpleasant jobs to feed my children. He lives with me in the house I single-handedly built, eats my food, drinks my water and still frustrates my life.”

“If my husband insists on divorcing me, he should be ready to move out of my house” she said.

The trader, a mother of seven, urged the Court to grant her husband’s request for the dissolution of their marriage.

“When I die, he should not come for my burial. And I can assure you that when he dies, I will never attend his burial” she said.

The petitioner, Tobechukwu, prayed the Court to dissolve his 33-year-old marriage accusing his wife of Infidelity.

“My wife is having an affair with a man from her village. She also abandoned me and the children for 10 years.”

“She deserted her matrimonial home to an unknown destination for 10 years, she just returned in 2020” he said.

After listening to both parties, the presiding judge of the Court, Justice. Adeniyi Koledoye, directed the estranged couple to maintain peace.

Mr. Koledoye adjourned the case until 21st September, 2021, for further hearing.

End my marriage so that I can freely have sex- another woman tells court

The marriage between two Police officers, Inspector Simon Gabriel and his estranged wife, Inspector Adoba Odeligbo, has collapsed after the man chased the wife away from their matrimonial home and denied her sex for 8 years.

Thus, the wife has approached the Makurdi Upper Area Court in Benue State, to dissolve the marriage so that she can be free to have sex because their marriage was conducted in a native way, which forbids her to sleep with another man.

Our Correspondent reports that the embittered wife, Inspector Odeligbo, told the Court that her husband paid N5 as her bride price and she was prepared to pay 1,000 times fold of the bride price so that she can be free to sleep with another man.

Mrs. Odeligbo told the Court during her testimony that the marriage between her and Gabriel had broken down irretrievably.

She explained that she got married to Gabriel in 2005 under the Idoma Native Laws and she has two children but on March 8, 2014, Gabriel sent her out of their matrimonial home because she requested to attend a marriage ceremony and since then she has not slept with any man because of their culture.

“I want the Court to dissolve this marriage so that I can have my freedom; because of our tradition I can’t do anything now that we are still legally married, even though we are separated.”

“He paid N5 as bride price. I am ready to give him N5, 000.

All efforts to reconcile us failed. My offence is that I asked for permission to attend a marriage ceremony. He became aggressive and said I was not his wife so I should not tell him about my movement.”

“We did everything but he refused. I pleaded with him but he refused. Even the apartment he is staying in Lafia was the one given to me by the Police” she said.

She prayed to the Court to order her husband to cater for his kids, also pay their school fees and other expenses for the children.

After listening to the petitioner, the President of the Court, Rose Ioryshe, adjourned the case till 10th September, 2021, for defence by her husband.

Enraged couple crashes their 15-year old marriage over infidelity

Ekiti based Couple Abiodun Omotoyinbo and his wife, Taiwo, has destroyed their 15 years old Marriage over allegations of deceit and adultery.

Our Correspondent reports that while the husband, Abiodun, alleged in Court that he caught his wife with another man, the wife revealed how he impregnated another woman in the same adultery mess.

Following their positions, an Ekiti Customary Court sitting in Ikole-Ekiti, dissolved the marriage between Mr. Abiodun and his wife, Taiwo, on grounds of adultery.

Delivering Judgment, the President of the Court, Mrs. Yemisi Ojo, held that the marriage had broken down irretrievably and consequently dissolved the union.

Mrs. Ojo ordered both parties to go their separate ways as they stand unmarried and ordered that the 9-year old child of the union should remain with Omotoyinbo.

The Court ordered the father to be responsible for the payment of the child’s school fees and Abiodun to allow the child see the mother.

The petitioner, Abiodun Omotoyinbo, 36, who is a farmer, in his evidence told the Court that the respondent was the mother of his child and prayed for the dissolution marriage because he alleged to have caught her on several occasions committing adultery and she never showed any remorse.

“She threatened my life with fetish substances and has also threatened the life of the woman, who is pregnant for me.

Her threat came true because my woman is yet to give birth one year after she took in” he said.

In her defense, Taiwo, 25, a businesswoman, denied all the allegations levelled against her by the petitioner and informed the Court that Abiodun committed adultery and impregnated a woman, which has affected their marriage.

“I never threatened the petitioner or the woman, who is pregnant for him. I do not agree with the dissolution because of my nine-year old baby” she said.

However, the Court dissolved the marriage and directed the parties to go their separate ways despite her rejection of the dissolution of the marriage.