A 23-year-old Islamic marriage between Latifat Ismaila and Adebayo Ismaila has been put to an end by an Area Court at Centre-Igboro in Ilorin, Kwara State.
The dissolution of the marriage followed the request of the wife, Latifat.
The divorce application was granted to the wife by the Presiding Judge, Abdulkadir Ahmed, who ruled that Latifat must observe three months of the Iddah period before she could remarry.
Also, the court ordered that the children’s custody could not be granted to the two parties, saying the children in question are adults and could decide where they want to stay.
Earlier, the petitioner told the court that her father informed her that the respondent said he was no longer interested in the marriage and wanted her to file for divorce.
She also said she was tired of the relationship and agreed upon hearing the respondent’s intention for divorce and also wanted custody of their two children.
The respondent agreed to the divorce application but wanted custody of the children, saying that the petitioner had left his house for the past three years.
“She left my house without any problem and got married to another man, and even had a baby for the man.
“Our firstborn, who is 23 years old, got pregnant under her mother’s care and refused to stay in her husband’s house, which is why I don’t want her to have custody of the children,” he said.
Meanwhile, a man, Chizoba Anaefuna, an artisan who died in a building collapse three weeks ago in Nnewi, Anambra State has been laid to rest.
Anaefuna was buried on Friday in Nimo, Njikoka Local Government Area, where he hails from.
He was buried alongside two of his sons, who had accompanied him to work on the site, where the building collapsed on them.
A source from Nimo, where Anaefuna was buried, said it was a site of anguish as the corpses of the man and his sons were laid in state in his compound.
The source said the fate of the deceased person’s moved many to tears, especially as the man who was based in Lagos came down to Anambra for the job and decided to take his sons, who were schooling in Anambra but were on holiday, to the site to help him.
“They were buried today at their father’s compound at Ajanzo Nimo. They left behind their aged mother/grandmother who was staying with those children all the while, before their father came home and took them to Nnewi,” the source added.