Metro
Suspected Arsonists Set Shops Ablaze In Delta Community

Two youths in their early 20s in the early hours of Monday reportedly set ablaze a building housing eight shops along Palm-Groove Road in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State.
They were said to have fled the scene immediately after they set the building on fire.
One of the victims and owner of an eatery located within one of the shops told journalists that he “woke up around 3am as a result of the petrol smell.”
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The victim who would not want his name in print narrated how he saw the two suspected arsonists carrying out the act before fleeing.
“The motive for setting the building ablaze is still a mystery,” the shop owner said.
Sympathisers were seen gathered at the scene around 7am on Monday.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe, could not be reached for comments on the incident as of the time of filing this report.
Fire incidents in markets and residential buildings in the state have been alarming.
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Several shops were on December 1, 2023, razed down in a fire incident at Ekpan Roundabout in Effurun, Delta.
The year earlier, goods and property worth several millions of naira were razed as fire engulfed a section of the Sapele Main Market in Sapele, Delta State.
It was the second fire incident recorded in the Sapele Main Market within that week.
Metro
I Provide Four Square Meals A Day For My Wife, Man Tells Court
A commercial mototrcyclist, Malam Isma’il Abubakar, has told a Shari’a Court sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, that he provides ‘four square meals’ for his wife every day.
Isma’il made this known while responding to his wife, Zainab Saleh’s allegations that he does not provide food for her.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), she also alleged that her husband does not respect her parents.
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She said she was done with their 10-year marriage and wanted divorce.
Isma’il, however, prayed the court to give him time to settle the dispute with his wife.
The judge, Malam Malam Anas Khalifa, asked Zainab to provide witnesses who can testify to her claims.
He ordered the couple to present their parents or guardians in court.
Metro
Court Dissolves Marriage, Orders Man To Pay N30,000 Per Month For Kids’ Food
An Area Court at Centre-igboro, Ilorin, Kwara State, has dissolved the nine-year-old marriage between a woman, Bilikis Abake and her husband, Kehinde Bintin, over claims of domestic violence.
Delivering judgment, the presiding judge, Mr Idris Etsu, held that the respondent, had sent a letter to the court through the bailiff, releasing his wife.
Etsu, consequently, dissolved the marriage between both parties, but ordered the woman to observe three months iddah (waiting) period, before she could remarry again.
READ ALSO:Woman Divorces Husband For Smashing Her Phone, Refusing To Repair It
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the court awarded custody of the two children of the marriage, who are eight-year-old and six-year-old, to their mother.
The court ordered the respondent to pay the sum of N30,000, as monthly maintenance fee.
He held that the father should be responsible for his children’s school fees, and should be allowed unrestricted access to his children, except at odd hours.
Metro
‘My Husband Kept Coffin Under Our Bed, Planned To Use Our Child For Ritual’
In a chilling case that shocked Matero Local Court, Zambia, 36-year-old woman from Chisamba has been granted divorce from her husband, whom she accused of attempting to sacrifice their two children.
Bertha Mumbi told the court that her husband, Abel Ngoma, 46, of Chibombo, allegedly plotted to kill their two daughters—aged 11 years and 7 years as part of ritual instructions he received from a witchdoctor in 2021.
According to Zambia Observer, testifying before the magistrate, Lewis Mumba Bertha said that Abel even made a small coffin in preparation for the supposed death of their firstborn and kept it in their bedroom for four consecutive nights after she refused to participate in the scheme.
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“By then, he had already made a small coffin in readiness for the death of my firstborn. He never told me about the coffin he made. We slept for four days with it under our bed,” she said.
Bertha said the plan was brought to light by the witchdoctor’s informant, who approached her to demand compensation for cancelling the agreement, since she had refused to consent to the sacrifice.
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