{"id":191802,"date":"2020-02-06T20:48:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T19:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=191802"},"modified":"2020-02-06T21:00:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T20:00:45","slug":"im-not-ready-to-divorce-my-wife-husband-begs-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=191802","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not ready to divorce my wife &#8211; Husband begs court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">A trader, identified as Jimoh Baba, in the Ita-Adu area in Ilorin, on Thursday told an Area Court that he was not ready to divorce his wife, Ramotalahi Jimoh.<\/p>\n<p>Jimoh, a resident of Ojagboro, in Ilorin, had approached the court for the dissolution of her 11-year-old marriage to Baba, on grounds that she no longer loves him, NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>Baba, however, rejected his wife\u2019s prayers and told the court that he was not ready for divorce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot release my children to her. I am not ready for any divorce now. Give me more time to come back and prove my case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have health challenges and I cannot explain further. Kindly help me with a new date to establish my case,\u201d Baba begged the court.<\/p>\n<p>However, the wife told the court that she has no feelings for her husband anymore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dMy husband and I are living like rivals in our matrimonial home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are more of rivals than lovers. We never agree on the same thing. I want this honourable court to dissolve this union as soon as possible,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She also prayed the court to grant her custody of the three children and sought an order compelling Baba to pay N15,000 monthly as a feeding allowance for the children.<\/p>\n<p>The Presiding Judge, Mr. Abdulhammed Aliyu in ruling adjourned the case until March 11 for hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Aliyu told the defendant to get a lawyer incase his health stops him from appearing before the court by the next adjourned date.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trader, identified as Jimoh Baba, in the Ita-Adu area in Ilorin, on Thursday told an Area Court that he was not ready to divorce his wife, Ramotalahi Jimoh. Jimoh, a resident of Ojagboro, in Ilorin, had approached the court for the dissolution of her 11-year-old marriage to Baba, on grounds that she no longer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191803,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2830,3],"tags":[7506],"class_list":["post-191802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-news","tag-chief-magistrates-court"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191802","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=191802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/191803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}