A sales attendant, Stephen Akinseloye,has told a Customary Court in Mapo in Ibadan to dissolve his 15-month-old marriage because of his wife’s poor cooking habit and rudeness.
Specifically,he said his wife ,Opeyemi, does not know how to prepare eba,puts too much salt in food and refused to take to corrections on improved culinary skills.
Eba is a staple food mainly eaten in the West African subregion,particularly in Nigeria and parts of Ghana.
‘’Opeyemi cannot make simple eba. She puts too much salt in the food. I have shown her and corrected her but she has refused to learn. She is also clumsy. She destroyed my Plasma TV and lies on minor things. She has also refused to join me in prayers. I am a Catholic, she keeps going to Celestial church,’’ Akinseloye said.
Akinseloye, a resident of Elewura-Challenge area in Ibadan, also disclosed to the court that his wife has caused him so much pain by her immaturity.
The defendant denied some of the allegations levelled against her and accused her husband of being a flirt.
In his verdict, the President of the court, Chief Ademola Odunade, maintained that Opeyemi was responsible for the injury done to her affair having failed to acquire basic requirements for living a happy marital life.
He dissolved the marriage on irreconcilable differences ground and granted custody of the only child to Opeyemi.
He ordered Akinseloye to pay N4, 000 monthly for the child’s welfare
Meanwhile,a Sharia Court in Dorayi, Kano, granted a woman, Zainab Abubakar, divorce, because her husband of six years, Biko, Salisu Ibrahim, abandoned her for eight months.
Zainab disclosed to the court that her husband left her and her children. ”My lord, things have not been going well, we are suffering. “I can hardly pay the school fees for my children. We do not feed well because he did not provide feeding allowance,’ she added.
Ibrahim’s uncle, Malam Muhammed,also told the court that he’s ignorant of his nephew’s location.
Delivering judgment, Malam Umar Dan-Baba, dissolved the marriage
