Metro
Judge Raises Alarm Over Charms In Court

Justice Hakeem Oshodi of an Ikeja High Court has warned members of the public to stop leaving charms in his courtroom.
Oshodi gave the warning on Monday as the trial of five men charged with the murder of one Ifeanyi Etunmuse began.
“No one should leave charms in my courtroom. It should not be repeated. A talisman was found after the last adjourned date in the murder case,” he said.
The judge, who referred to the charm as ‘property’, warned the courtroom audience: “Do not leave your property here again. It does not work anymore.”
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Lagos state government brought charges against the five suspects; Atunrase Omolabi, Shittu Olawale, Olaide Opeifa, Olanrewaju Adebiyi aka Maja, and Jamiu Omosanya aka Orobo.
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They were charged for attempted murder and murder of Etunmuse at Western Funeral Home, Ijede Ikorodu.
Earlier in the trial, the defence counsel continued with the cross-examination of the prosecution witness, Babatunde Olayinka.
Olanrewaju Ajanaku, the lead defence counsel to the first, second, and third defendants and later on the fifth defendant, asked Olayinka if he could say that the defendants had a hand in the attack on the deceased.
He also asked him if he was able to get a view of the compound of the local politician and funeral services businessman, Oluwatosin Onamade from his hiding place following the alleged attack.
The witness told the court that he hid himself in the cemetery, and lay down for a while to hide himself from a group of men that he saw wielding machetes at the Onamade compound on the day of the incident, April 16, 2021.
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The witness further told the court that as he hid himself from the machete-wielding men, he turned around and saw a dead body beside him.
Ajanaku asked the witness: “Can you say emphatically that the first, second, third and fifth defendant had anything to do with the body you saw?”
The witness replied that he could not say emphatically that the defendants had anything to do with the body.
The defence counsel to the fourth defendant, Mahmud Adesina, continued with the cross-examination of the prosecution witness and questioned him on whether he had told the court earlier that Femi Onamade, a relative of Oluwatosin Onamade, was the one who knew the defendants in person.
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Olayinka affirmed that it was Femi who knew the defendants and Oluwatosin who could identify them.
The prosecution counsel, Mr M. T. Adewoye, re-examined the witness and asked him to clarify what he meant when he told the court earlier that he could not identify the defendants.
Olayinka told the court that he indeed saw the machete-wielding men when they came into the compound.
Adewoye requested the court to issue a witness summons for Femi Onamade to appear in court.
The judge, then issued a witness summons for Femi Onamade.
The judge adjourned the matter until Feb. 19, 2024, for the continuation of trial.
On a previous court hearing on April 6, the prosecution had alleged that the suspects also cut off the wrist of Femi Onamade, the younger brother to Tosin Onamade.
(NAN)
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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