Man kicks wife out after 28 years of marriage for lack of respect

Tired of his wife’s alleged stubbornness and lack of respect for him as the head of the house, a 68-year old man, Akibu Ibitoye, of Olulande Area, Ilorin, on Monday dragged his wife, Mariam Arinola to an Ilorin Customary Court to formerly dissolve their 28 year-old marriage.
Ibitoye told the court that their marriage, which was contracted in 1984 was blessed with three children, Munirat, Suleiman and Mutiyat, aged 26, 23, and 19 respectively.
Giving his reasons for such a degrading action after over two decades as a couple, irritated Ibitoye told the court that his wife, had not been submissive and had a dominant attitude in the home, claiming she also threatened to harm him and his new wife, should they flout her orders.
In his evidence, the father of two lamented that he has since lost his authority in his own home. “I have lost my authority as the head of the house because my wife always takes laws into her hand. Her rude behavior forced me into marrying a second woman in 2010 since I have lost control of my house to her. I have no say as the head of the family.”
In conclusion, he urged the honorable court to dissolve the marriage and give him peace of mind and protect his new wife.
Meanwhile, contrary to her estranged husband’s claims, Mariam claimed the reverse was the case, “since my husband married another woman, his attitude towards me changed. That was why I refused to take orders from him anymore,’’ she said.
However, the remorseful woman pleaded with the court to give her time to make some amendments and adjustments with her husband.
After listening to both parties, the Presiding judge, Mr Ibrahim Abdulquadri, adjourned the case to Dec. 20, for further hearing.
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Patience Jonathan In Controversy For Dressing Inappropriately To Brother-In-Law's Burial

The burial ceremony of president Jonathan’s younger brother, Chief Meni Jonathan in Otuoke, Bayelsa state last Saturday, December 8th, has come and gone but tongues are wagging over the first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan’s choice of outfit for the solemn occasion.

The first lady was dressed in a black coloured gown with heavy gold embroidery and head gear (gele) to match, heavy make-up and decked in jeweleries in sharp contrast to her husband, President Jonathan, who was decked in a simple black long sleeve shirt, navy blue trousers with a face cap to match.
Now, not that there’s a particular dress code for burial ceremonies, the grief and sadness in the air makes it a fashion faux pas to be dressed elegantly or heavily accessorized as our own first lady – a simple plain black gown without designs or embroidery with a smaller head cover should’ve been appropriate and the make up should’ve been toned down a bit; it is a burial (her brother-in-law’s for that matter) not wedding or naming ceremony.
But hey! She is the first lady of the Federal Republic and moreso, she is Patience Jonathan…
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Strange: Unknown Person Splashes N1 Million Pound Sterling on Kings College, Edo College

In what can only be described as a mysterious but welcome development, an anonymous donor has given the sum of one million pounds sterling (about N250 million) to Kings College, Lagos, and Edo College, Benin, the British-Nigeria Education Trust (BNET) has said.
This was made know on Wednesday in London by the chairman of the Trust, David Reeves, who said that the donation was for the upgrade of the two schools. Mr. Reeves, who was speaking at a reception organised by the Nigerian High Commission for BNET, a charity, said that the donor specifically requested for the money to be spent on those schools.
His words, “We have been most encouraged by a recent anonymous donation of one million pounds sterling; the donor has charged us with negotiating the use of this very generous amount of money with two of the major schools in Nigeria… The schools are Kings College in Lagos and Edo College in Benin,” he said.
He continues: “We are already in discussion with them and hope to identify a major project in each of them,” Mr. Reeves said. He also added that part of the money would be set aside for scholarship schemes for the less privileged students.
 InformationNigeria.org

President Jonathan’s blackmail is in full swing – and more in today’s news round-up with Cheta Nwanze

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I think Mr. President should just tell us the truth, Christmas is round the corner, and money is needed to buy hampers. We won’t get angry, we are Nigerians.

How una dey? As things are, the Presidential blackmail is on in full swing. Yesterday, the President presented a supplementary budget to the National Assembly seeking an extra N161 billions so that we will not have the pleasure of queuing up for petrol during this Christmas. Don’t worry about the extra money my Prez, we are already used to queuing, or in the alternative, fulfilling our petrol addiction from those boys who sell the stuff just beside empty filling stations. Personally, I think Mr. President should just tell us the truth, Christmas is round the corner, and money is needed to buy hampers. We won’t get angry, we are Nigerians.
But then again, Nigerians are capable of getting angry, especially when we are hit in the pocket as patients in LUTH are about to discover. Annoyed over a new tax deduction which would rather than go to better roads, or hospitals, go to yet another set of Christmas hampers, doctors in that institution have withdrawn their services. I guess that this latest doctor’s strike in Lagos would help accelerate the case of former Don, Wale Babalakin who had taken the liberty of checking himself into that institution with some unnamed malady.
At the very least though, the strike in LUTH will mean that the erstwhile Kogi state I-am-that-I-am will not have the option of taking up the bed next to Babalakin in LUTH’s private ward the day after escaping from the EFCC by the skin of his teeth. The former governor had tried to go down the well worn route of thwarting justice, but unfortunately realised, maybe a little too late that im levels no reach. Since the Supreme Court decided that he should face trial, and LUTH (with its private wards) is on strike, Abubakar Audu decided to take another route. He jumped out of a window…
Sadly, and quite distressingly, jumping out of a window is not an option available to Prof. Kamene Okonjo, given her age. Forty eight hours after Delta state governor, Uduaghan promised that she would be recovered “within 24 hours”, the kidnappers have finally gotten in touch. They have asked that her daughter, NOI, our Minister of the Economy, either bring the fuel subsidy money, or the sum of N200 millions. I guess they had not heard about the supplementary budget request as of the time of the phone call.
Bits and bobs
Despite his best efforts to have them thrown out, the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday told serving Senator, Ali Ndume, that records of phone calls and text messages between himself and Boko Haram members will be used as evidence against him. Three things that are clear, the Senator will not resign, the Senator will try and get the case adjourned for the next ten years, and if that fails, the Senator will be admitted into LUTH.
Despite the fact that there was a “partial removal of fuel subsidy” in January, the President (still on that issue) has told us that the cost of fuel subsidies have gone up even more. I admit to using more petrol in 2012. The power situation got worse in the second half of the year, so my generator was a lot more active, poor thing.
Determined not to be outdone by Paul Biya, fellow countryman Isa Hayatou has schemed his challenger out of the way. The 66 year old is apparently the only person in a continent of over a billion souls that has the vision to run our football. It’s too early in the day, but permit me to go and get drunk.
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Mandela: His Spirit And Sparkle Is Fading – Wife

Madiba & Wife, Graca Machel: Says The Former S/African Leader Has Lost His ‘Sparkle’

As South African military doctors continue Nelson Mandela’s treatment for a recurring lung infection – an ailment the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader remains susceptible to because of his age and his 27 years incarceration ordeal, his wife, Graca Machel, has revealed that she is losing hope as the icon battles the infection.
She gave the indication while speaking to a local television station. Machel said it was painful to see her husband “ageing”. “I mean, this spirit and this sparkle, you see that somehow it’s fading,” she told ENews Central Africa. “To see him ageing, it’s something also which pains you … You understand and you know it has to happen.”
Mandela’s grand-daughter Ndileka told the same TV network that he had come to accept his condition. “I think he takes it in his stride, he has come to accept that it’s part of growing old, and it’s part of humanity as such,” she said. “At some point you will depend on someone else, he has come to embrace it.”
 InformationNigeria.org

Everything in the Nigerian State has become meaningless – Maitama Sule

Elder statesman and representative to the United Nations, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama-Sule has decried the dwindling fortunes of the Nigerian politics, philosophy and economy.
The Northern elder who bagged a Lifetime Achievement Award alongside a former Nigerian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr. Christopher Kolade, at an annual dinner organized by the Academy for Entrepreneurial Studies in Lagos on Tuesday asserted that things are gradually falling apart in the nation, noting that everything is fast becoming “meaningless”.
He lamented that Nigerian leaders had forsaken the foundation laid by the nation’s founding fathers who fought gallantly to bring orderliness and greatness to the country.
He said, “Honestly, everything in the Nigerian state has become meaningless. In short, today there is meaningless in philosophy, intellectualism, politics, immorality in the society, corruption in the economy, fraud in act, and lack of creativity.
“Nigeria today is not what it used to be. Our founding fathers made all efforts to give us foundation and dream that between the next 15 and 30 years, Nigeria will become a great country. But things have fallen apart. The family institution today has broken down. Respect for elders and constituted authority, which used to be a standing order in our society, has now become a wasted effort.”
He added, “I remain optimistic. I believe that we shall overcome. I saw it in the past. In the First Republic, I saw so many crisis and we overcame. As we overcame those crises in the First Republic, so shall we overcome these crises in the present Nigeria by the grace of God.”
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There is a difference between fighting the gov’t and fighting the nation – Wole Soyinka

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Noble Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has said that corruption was being used as a unifying factor in Nigeria as it had eaten deep in all sections of the country with no restriction.
Soyinka stated this yesterday while speaking at the Second Muazu Babangida Aliyu Annual National Literary Colloquium at Justice Legbo Kutigi Conference Centre, Minna.
He said that corruption was an heinous crime against the nation that must be tackled by every means possible saying that it was not restricted to any region, religion , tribe or ethnic group.
The literary icon maintained that since it was not restricted to any section of the country it could be seen as a unifying factor even as it has gradually destroyed the value and sense of nationhood.
Soyinka therefore urged writers to rise up against corruption.
He said writers should find solution to the problem of corruption and other vices through proper research works instead of bemoaning the situation.
Soyinka recalled that when the advance free fraud started in Nigeria it was called 419 and some writers gave it names as it was seen as a means of repatriation instead of rising against the scourge.
According to him vices like kidnapping should not be blamed on unemployment but a product of criminally minded individuals who are out to undermine the freedom of others for their own greed.
He  said, “let us not trivialise issues, it is criminal for anyone to throw bomb at market places and places of worship under the guise of marginalisation” adding that, “there is a difference between one taking arm against the authority and declaring war against the nation”.
Meanwhile, the colloquium followed the commissioning of Cyprian Ekwensi Library at F-layout Minna. The colloquium attracted 44 writers with Professor Charles Nnolim, Odia Ofeimun and Ahmed Maiwada as discussants and chaired by Professor Samsudeen Amali of Nassarawa State University.
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