Metro
Again, Court Rejects Abba Kyari’s Fresh Bail Request

Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, dismissed a fresh bail application the detained Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, filed to be released on bail, pending the conclusion of his trial.
Kyari is facing an eight-count charge bordering on drug trafficking brought against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
The NDLEA alleged that Kyari and his men, sometime between January 19 and 25, 2022, at the office of Inspector-General of Police, IRT, Abuja, in connivance with one ASP John Umoru (now at large), ACP Sunday J. Ubia, ASP Bawa James, Insp. Simon Agirigba and Insp. John Nuhu, unlawfully tampered with 21.25kilograms worth of cocaine that they seized from the two convicted drug traffickers- Chibunna Patrick Umeibe and Emeka Alphonsus Ezenwane- even as it also accused them of dealing in cocaine worth 17.55kg.
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The charge stated that this is contrary to section 14(b) of the NDLEA Act, CAP N30 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004, the defendants.
The court had, in two previous rulings, denied the defendant’s bail and ordered their remand at Kuje prison.
The Court of Appeal in Abuja also refused Kyari’s request for bail.
At today’s sitting, Justice Nwite, in a ruling, held that Kyari’s application lacked merit.
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He stated that Kyari failed to establish any exceptional circumstance that would warrant the exercise of judicial discretion in his favour.
The trial judge said that the court had earlier dismissed a similar bail application that was brought before it and ordered an accelerated hearing of the case.
He said no evidence was shown to convince the court why it should depart from its earlier ruling.
Justice Nwite rejected Kyari’s application and approved that the NLDEA, proceed with the prosecution of both Kyari and his co-defendants in the matter.
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Recall that the court last month granted Kyari temporary bail from prison custody to enable him to participate in his mother’s final burial rites.
The court granted him N50m bail for two weeks and two sureties in like sum.
Previously, Kyari had filed an application to challenge the charge brought against him which the court on March 22, 2023, dismissed.
Kyari, through his team of lawyers led by Mr Nureni Jimoh (SAN), argued that the charge was legally defective and premature.
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He added that the NDLEA ought to have allowed police to exhaust its internal machinery before filing the applications in court.
He claimed that the Police had already commenced an investigation into allegations against him and issued an interim report.
The defendant argued that he could only be charged to court upon the conclusion of the internal investigation by the police.
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Metro
Obaseki Beaten, Stripped In Edo

Don Pedro Obaseki, a cousin to a former governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, has been beaten and stripped by suspected thugs.
Pedro Obaseki was attacked at Uwa Primary School where he went to play football.
In a viral video, Pedro Obaseki, was seen kneeling at the Oba of Benin Palace gate.
The suspected thugs told the palace guards that they brought an Oghion(enemy) of Oba, as Pedro Obaseki was made to kneel down.
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Some Palace Chiefs who addressed the suspected thugs spoke in Bini language, saying the Oba was going to the Holy Arousa church for Thanksgiving service to mark the end of the Igue festival, hence they don’t want any trouble or distraction.
“Today is Thanksgiving day at the Holy Arousa. We don’t want any trouble. If there is anybody that counted himself as enemy of the Oba, allow him and see how he will end up.”
The Chiefs later took him in despite protest by the thugs.
Metro
My Wife Started Bringing Home Her Lovers After She Sent Me, My First Wife Packing —Husband

…He must give our child N30,000 monthly for food if he’s insisting on divorce —Wife
A man, Abass, has approached Grade A Customary Court, Court 2, sitting at Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State, to seek that it dissolve the union between him and his wife, Bolaji, on the grounds of disobedience, adultery and threat to his life by the latter.
Abass stated that Bolaji was troublesome and made their home non-conducive for him and his first wife.
Abass also said that he almost lost his job after Bolaji extended her unruly behaviour to his office, where she came to fight him and turned the whole premises upside down.
According to him, the timely intervention of the police saved the situation.
The plaintiff added further that Bolaji sent his first wife packing, while he also moved out of their house a few months after this when it became obvious she was bent on snuffing life out of him.
Abass explained that Bolaji threw caution in the air immediately he moved out of the house and started bringing her lovers into the house.
These men, he stated, did spend the night with her.
The plaintiff said he went home early one morning and saw the defendant seeing one of them off.
Abass told the court he has had enough of his wife’s atrocities and thus prayed for the dissolution of their union.
According to the plaintiff, the defendant took to threatening him since he dragged her to court.
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Bolaji refused that their union be dissolved, giving the welfare of the only child produced by their union as excuse.
Abass in his testimony said, “Bolaji and I met in 2019 and I paid her bride price.
“I already had a wife when I met her, and the three of us were living together after she moved in with me.
“Bolaji started misbehaving early in our marriage.
“She was always at loggerheads with my first wife; she showed no regard for her and sought every opportunity to fight her.
“Any time I tried to caution her, she would flare up and accuse me of taking sides with her rival.
“Peace deserted us in the home because Bolaji made it hell to live in.
“Bolaji fought me and my first wife on regular basis.
“I almost lost my job when she came to my office to fight me.
“It took the intervention of the policemen before sanity could be restored.
“The embarrassment and shame he exposed me to have not left me till date.
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“Bolaji made my first wife life so miserable that she packed her belongings and moved out of the house.
“I saw hell in the few months I was left alone with Bolaji; she almost snuffed life out of me.
“I had no choice than to move out our house.
“Bolaji threw caution in the air immediately I left our home.
“She started dating other men and even had the audacity to bring them into our home.
“These men normally spent the night with her.
“I decided to visit home one faithful day very early in the morning and I saw her seeing one of her lovers off.
“My lord, I can no longer tolerate Bolaji’s loose and indecent lifestyle.
“She now threatens and swears to make my life miserable and unbearable.
“I pray this honourable court to rule that we are no longer husband and wife.
“I in addition request an order restricting her from threatening me.”
Bolaji responded, “My lord, he lied that he paid my bride price.
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“We did not hold any marital rites, neither was I handed over to him by my parents.
“I do not agree to divorce because of our child’s welfare.
“I have a child from my first marriage and do not want our child’s fate to be like that of my first child.
“But if the court eventually dissolves our marriage, I plead that it mandates my husband to give me N30, 000 every month for our child’s feeding.”
The court president, Mrs O.E. Owoseni, gave her judgement after she had heard both parties state that the plaintiff did not cross-examine the defendant in respect of non-payment of bride price and subsequent handing over to him as wife.
Owoseni stated that he has by implication admitted that he did not pay bride price nor was handed over to him as wife.
She added that the ingredients validating marriage under customary law was absent, which meant that they were never married, but merely cohabiting.
Consequently, there was no marriage to be dissolved.
Owoseni further stated that since the plaintiff was no longer interested in cohabiting with the defendant, both parties were, therefore, ordered to go their different ways.
She also explained that based on the unchallenged evidence that the defendant was fond of fighting and causing trouble, the defendant was restrained from harassing, threatening, disturbing and or interfering with the plaintiff’s private life.
The defendant was granted custody of their child, while the plaintiff was given reasonable access to him.
The plaintiff was ordered to pay N30,000 monthly to the defendant for their child’s upkeep.
Metro
‘My Husband Saved My Name As ‘My Sister’ On His Phone, Lied To His Lovers He Was Single’

A cheating man of Lusaka, Zambia, has found himself in court after his wife discovered that her number was saved as ‘My Sister’ on his phone.
The act was a way of concealing his wife’s identity from his three side chicks that he had lied to that he was single.
According to the Zambia Daily Mail, this is in a matter where Pricilla Tembo sued her husband, Tyros Banda, for reconciliation.
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Pricilla narrated that the two had been married since 2012 and together, they had produced one offspring.
She said that Banda, a civil engineer by profession, changed into a beast after he was transferred to Kasama, where he allegedly found ‘biological roads’ to grade.
She explained that since his transfer, the husband would only visit home once a year and in those one-off visits, he would only have sex with her once.
According to Pricillia, Banda gets angry anytime she initiates s3x.
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The aggrieved wife told the court that her husband had impregnated other women while leaving her with only a child.
She alleged that as it stands, Banda had fathered three children from three women.
In his defense, Banda said the difficulties in their marriage were linked to his wife’s miscarriages and her reliance on ‘bwela tupange’ kind of ministries and traditional healers.
In his judgement, the magistrate, Lewis Mumba, advised the wife to proceed with a divorce petition against her husband as infidelity and deprivation are grounds for divorce.
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