A Grade A Customary Court sitting at Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State, has adjourned for judgment a divorce suit brought before it by a woman, Leah, against her husband, Olalere, whom she accused of irresponsibility, constant battery and threat. Leah stated that no marriage ceremony was held between her and Olalere and that he did not […]
A 35-YEAR-OLD man of Lusaka’s Kabanana Compound, Zambia, has lost his wife of 13 years due to his inability to choose between his widowed side chick and her. Felix Mukuka, a builder, aged 35, was first sued by his wife, Josphine Mukuka, a business lady also of Kabanana compound for marriage reconciliation in the Matero […]
Iranian authorities arrested a female student yesterday after she staged a solo protest against harassment by stripping down to her underwear outside her university, according to various reports. The woman, who has not been identified, had been harassed inside Tehran’s prestigious Islamic Azad University by members of the Basij paramilitary fo...
A man, Ajayi, has told Grade A Customary Court, Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State, that he is no longer interested in his wedlock to his wife, Lanre, on the grounds of violence and lack of peace. Ajayi alleged that their home had known no peace since they got married because his wife was quarrelsome and violent, […]
An Upper Area Court in Kubwa, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has dissolved the 16-year-old marriage between a woman, Hajarat Isa and her husband, Muhammed Hassan, for lack of love. The judge, Mohammed Wakili dissolved their marriage according to Islamic Law, following Hajarat’s prayer for divorce on the said ground. Wakili ordered tha...
•Secondhand clothes It takes Nii Armah and his crew of 30 fishermen hours to haul their weighty nets to shore on the bustling Korle-Gonno beach of Ghana’s capital Accra. Finally, their catch emerges — a colossal barracuda and a less welcome bounty of bundles of discarded clothing. Where once nets teemed with fish, they are […]

