Tag: Divorce
Court dissolves 4-year-old cohabitation over alleged abandonment
Ibadan, Feb. 27, 2026 (NAN) A Grade A Customary Court sitting at Mapo, Ibadan, has dissolved a four-year-old cohabitation between Oluwaferanmi Michael and Segun...
Woman seeks divorce on grounds of abandonment
Kaduna, Feb. 4,2026(NAN) A housewife, Augustina Chinenyenwa on Wednesday prayed an Upper Customary Court, Daura Road, Kaduna to dissolve her three- year -old marriage...
I Do Today, I’m Done Tomorrow
What changed? A society in crisis over marriage and divorce
Across Nigeria’s cities and towns, divorce proceedings are quietly outpacing wedding ceremonies. Family courts are...
Kannywood actress prays court to confirm divorce
A Kannywood actress, Maryam Muhammad, popularly known as Maryam Malika, on Wednesday prayed a Shari’a court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna, to confirm a...
Confusion as 2baba announces separation from wife, Annie Macaulay
Nigerian singer, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as "2Baba," has announced separation from his wife, actress Annie Macaulay-Idibia.
2Baba revealed this in a statement via his...
My wife might kill me with persistent troublemaking, man tells court
A retired civil servant, Mr Olabamiji Ogundepo, has prayed a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve his 11-year-old marriage with his...
My wife is very filthy, I am fed up, man tells...
A divorce-seeking man, Folorunso Adeleye on Wednesday prayed a Grade A Customary Court in Mapo in Ibadan to grant him a divorce from his...
Court grants man divorce plea on grounds of wife’s saucy behaviour
An Area Court sitting in Ilorin, on Friday granted a man, AbdulRasheed Yusuf, his prayer for divorce over his wife, Shakirat’s saucy attitude.
The presiding...
Court grants man Divorce whose wife eloped
An Area Court in Jos on Wednesday granted Luka Istifanus his divorce prayer on the grounds that his wife Grace eloped.
The judge, Shawomi Bokkos,...
Drama in court as housewife makes U-turn on divorce
Abuja, Jan.17, 2024 (NAN)There was a mild drama on Wednesday in a Dei-Dei Grade I Area Court in Abuja when a housewife, Sa’adatu Ayuba,...
Gbagbo files for divorce, to end 30-year marriage
Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo has filed for divorce on Monday from his wife of three decades, days after his highly anticipated return...
Marriage: An endangered 21st Century Culture
Marriages kissing the dust left, right, centre. Should you be worried about the institution’s increasing fragile state? Jubal Kanayo asks.
On 14th April, the internet was abuzz...
I abandoned my wife because she starves me of sex, man...
A sparepart dealer, Abdulahi Abdulsalam, on Thursday told a Customary Court sitting in Ile-Tuntun in Ibadan to dissolve his 10-year-old marriage to estranged wife,...
Teacher accuses wife of spitting in his food, seeks divorce
A school teacher, Mr Yemi Ogayemi, on Tuesday accused his wife Funmi, before a Customary court in Jikwoyi, Abuja for spitting in his food.
The...
Court dissolves 5-year-old marriage over battery, adulterous attitude
A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, on Tuesday, dissolved a five-year-old marriage between one Bukola Agunbiade and her estranged husband, Taiwo, over alleged battery...
Housewife seeks divorce over husband’s failure to pay rent
A housewife, Sakina Lawal on Wednesday prayed a Shari’a court sitting in Rigasa, Kaduna to dissolve the three-year marriage to husband, Abubakar Abdullahi over...
Doctor drags ex-wife to court over alleged misappropriation
A medical doctor, Lawson Apkulonu on Wednesday dragged his ex-wife, Angel Chetachi, before a Zone Six Chief Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, over alleged misappropriation of...
