![](\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Court-dissolves-7-year-old-marriage-over-threat-to-life.jpg\")
<\/p>\nIn his petition before Chief Ademola Odunade, the court\u2019s President, Isiaka, a resident of Egbede area in Ibadan, said that his wife might completely ruin his business through unnecessary nagging if the court did not end their union.<\/p>\n
He added that his wife and mother of his five children wanted him to be a poor man in order to prevent him from marrying a second wife.<\/p>\n
\u201cBilikis is usually sad that my business is doing well everyday because she falsely imagines that I may marry a second wife, which makes her to be nagging.<\/p>\n
\u201cOftentimes, she comes to my office to rain curses on me after stripping herself naked, even before my friends and employees.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt other times, she blackmails me that I have used her for money ritual and that is the reason why my business has been booming every day.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy lord, anytime Bilikis rained curses on me, I see the negative effect immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe said that I would have a car crash and it came to pass. She also said that my business would suffer great setback and it happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how it happens; if Bilikis requests for a certain amount of money from me, I give her double the amount and she still goes around peddling lies against me.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor example, I gave her N70, 000 instead of the N50, 000 she requested for the last time. Bilikis is evil. My lord, please separate so that I can have my peace,\u201d Isiaka pleaded.<\/p>\n
The respondent, however, opposed the suit and denied some of the allegations levelled against her by her estranged husband.<\/p>\n
Bilikis, who trades in provisions, prayed the court not to put an end to her marriage because there was nowhere she could go.<\/p>\n
\u201cMoreover, Isiaka was the one who deflowered me and he has prevented me from getting close to my parents,\u201d Bilikis stated.<\/p>\n
In his judgment, the court president held that since the marriage had been irreparably damaged, he had no choice than to dissolve it, in the interest of peace.<\/p>\n
Odunade advised spouses to avoid unnecessary mutual suspicion between them in order to enjoy lasting relationship.<\/p>\n
He granted custody of the first three children produced by the union to the plaintiff and directed the respondent to take charge of the last two.<\/p>\n
Odunade ordered Isiaka to pay a monthly allowance of N10,000 for the upkeep of the two children with Bilikis, in addition to being responsible for their education and other welfare.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An Ibadan-based businessman, Isiaka Adam, on Thursday, prayed a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve his 15-year-old marriage to his wife, Bilikis, because her nagging attitude was wrecking his business. In his petition before Chief Ademola Odunade, the court\u2019s President, Isiaka, a resident of Egbede area in Ibadan, said that his wife might completely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2830,3],"tags":[12102,8804,1517],"class_list":["post-146059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-news","tag-customary-court","tag-divorce","tag-ibadan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}