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‘We Feel Your Pains’ – Umahi Visits Protesters On Benin-Ekpoma-Abuja Highway, Promises Accelerated Reconstruction

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2 years ago

March 10, 2024

Minister of Works, Engr. Dave Umahi, has assured resumption of works on the ever-busy Benin-Ekpoma-Abuja highway, which has become a dead-trap lately.

The Minister’s assurance is coming after a group known as Concerned Edo Citizens staged a protest a few weeks ago to draw the attention of the Federal Government to the deplorable condition of the road.

The Concerned Edo Citizens was a group formed by the heavy-duty truck drivers’ union across the Edo North district to galvanize support for the protest.

Umahi, who was at the popular Jattu Junction in Auchi, where the protesters have turned into the epicenter to vent the displeasure about the state of the road, said the Federal Government feels the pains and agony motorists and commuters pass through in the course of plying the road.

The minister, who had arrived at the scene of the protest, late Saturday evening, accompanied by the Edo State Commissioner for Roads and Bridges, Ethan Uzamere, promised that work will commence on the road which links the South and North.

Umahi, while assuring the protesters that work would resume within the next two weeks, also promised to accelerate reconstruction work on the road.

He further promised to be on the ground every two weeks to supervise and ensure the contractor handling the project sticks to design and quality, including the construction of the pedestrian bridge at Jattu Junction.

The minister said the peaceful manner at which the protesters comported themselves in venting their anger was one of the factors that made Mr President give presidential directives that the four construction companies handling the project should return to the site next week.

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I Provide Four Square Meals A Day For My Wife, Man Tells Court

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4 hours ago

December 6, 2025

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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.

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.

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Court Dissolves Marriage, Orders Man To Pay N30,000 Per Month For Kids’ Food

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December 6, 2025

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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.

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.

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‘My Husband Kept Coffin Under Our Bed, Planned To Use Our Child For Ritual’

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December 6, 2025

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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.

“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.