Woman Gets N93bn Alimony Record Divorce Case

Is this not a case of divorce that pays? Or how does one describe a situation where the separated wife of a London financier was awarded £337 million $530 million, 425 million euros (N92723499992 -ninety-two billion seven hundred twenty-three million four hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-two) on Thursday in one of the biggest divorce settlements seen in a British court.

Sir Chris Hohn and Jamie Cooper-Hohn, founders of the Children's Investment Fund Foundation, had fought over assets said to be worth more than £700m.

The sum is thought to be the biggest of its kind made by a judge in England after the couple separated following 17 years of marriage.

Details emerged after a draft ruling was given to the pair's legal teams. Lawyers met on Thursday to discuss a number of legal issues, including whether the judgement in the case could be made public.

Mrs Justice Roberts said although the hearing had been in private, what had been said could be reported.

A detailed ruling on the dispute has not yet been delivered.

Sir Chris and Mrs Cooper-Hohn attended the hearing, but neither commented as they left court.

American-born Mrs Cooper-Hohn, 49, had sought half their assets but Sir Chris, 48, offered a quarter, arguing that he had made a special contribution to their wealth throughout their marriage.

Philanthropy

Sir Chris, the son of a car mechanic and a legal secretary, graduated from Southampton University before making his fortune as a hedge fund manager.

The couple set up the Children's Investment Fund Foundation, known as CIFF, which works to transform the lives of poor and vulnerable children in developing countries.

The pair, who have four children, including triplets, have reportedly given away around £1bn.

This is not the first high-profile divorce case to result in a large payout. 

The late Russian oligarch, Boris Berezovsky, featured in a multi-million pound case three years ago when it was reported that his former wife Galina Besharova had agreed to accept between £165m and £220m as part of a settlement.

Alake of Egbaland Is Married To The Same Woman For 43 Years

 

In a clime where marrying many wives is the norm amongst traditional title holders, the Alake of Egbaland, HRH Oba Michael Adedotun Gbadebo is married to only one woman, Olori Tokunbo, and they have been married for 43 years. 

Reports have it that he is perhaps the only long serving Oba in Nigeria married to only one wife. He assumed the throne of Alake of Egbaland in 2005.

At a wedding reception recently where his royal highness was the chair of the occasion, he said he still shares the same bed with his wife and mother of his children. He also praised his wife for being an incredible partner. He said they have a strong bond and he never had the need to marry another woman.

The Oba who is 71, said his grandfather had 24 wives, while his own father had 3. But he decided one wife was enough for him. 

 

According to him, he and his wife have always shared same room and same bed and that is how it will remain till death do them part. 

So culture can be broken after all!

Why Should US Embassy Spoil Blessing Okagbare’s Honeymoon? Why?

 

 
When Africa track queen Blessing Okagbare got married to her sweetheart, Igho Otegheri in Delta State a couple of weeks back, they had at the back of their minds - a honeymoon in the USA. But the US embassy in Abuja had a different plan.

Okagbare and her footballer husband, planned to travel to Los Angeles where the double sprint 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medalist is based. 

But Otegheri was denied a visa, something that left Okagbare distraught and confused. Okagbare trains with American coach, John Smith in Los Angles and was hoping that her husband who won four caps with the Super Eagles will be around at her weakest moments. Okabgare is billed to resume training for the next year’s World Championships in Beijing China.

“I feel so bad that the America Embassy would turn down the visa request by my husband to travel with me to Los Angeles.

“I have resumed training for the season and I have to go back to my base (Los Angeles) with my husband so that I can concentrate.

“I have sent copies of my documents, including my Resident Permit in Los Angeles to them so as to facilitate my husband’s traveling with me to the States, but they refused. Help me appeal to them to grant him visa because it won’t be easy for me to shuttle between Nigeria and the States every time.

“I have to concentrate on my training and the only way to do so is to have my husband with me in the States. I have been so sad since my husband returned from Abuja with this bad news. They have to do something about it,” she lamented

Over to you, Mr. American Ambassador. Let the couples go!

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14 Year Old Girl Who Murdered Her Husband Faces Murder Case

Little Wasila Tasi’u is facing charges of killing her husband whom she was married to when she was yet a child. According to Vanguard reports, Nigerian prosecutors opened their case on Wednesday against Wasila Tasi’u, a 14-year-old girl accused of murdering her 35-year-old husband, with testimony from a child allegedly sent to buy the murder weapon: rat poison. 

Wasila Tasi’u, from a poor, rural family in the mainly Muslim north, could face the death penalty if convicted in a case that has outraged rights activists who say a girl who married a man more than twice her age should be treated as a victim, not a criminal.

Prosecutor Lamido Abba Soron-Dinki’s first witness was a seven-year-old girl identified as Hamziyya, who was living in the same house as Tasi’u and her husband Umar Sani, when the child-bride allegedly laced his food with rat poison.

Hamziyya was identified as the sister of Sani’s “co-wife”, referring to a woman the deceased farmer had married previously in a region where polygamy is widespread.

The seven-year-old testified that Tasi’u gave her 80 naira ($0.45, 0.36 euros) to buy rat poison from a local shop on April 5, the day Sani died.

“She said rats were disturbing her in her room,” Hamziyya told the court.

The prosecution alleges that Tasi’u instead put the poison in the food she had prepared for a post-marriage celebration, perhaps because she regretted her decision to marry Sani.

Judge Mohammed Yahaya, sitting at the Gezawa High Court, has entered a plea of not guilty for Tasi’u, who refused to respond at a previous hearing on October 30 when the charges were put to her.

Yahaya has rejected defence applications for the case to be transferred to a juvenile court.Hamziyya’s testimony was supported by Abuwa Yusuf, a shopkeeper in the town of Unguwar Yansoro, who confirmed selling the poison to the child.

Sani’s neighbour, 30-year-old farmer Abdulrahim Ibrahim, testified that he was offered the food allegedly prepared by Tasi’u.

“When he brought the food (I) noticed some sandy-like particles, black in colour,” he told the court.

He ate four of the small balls made of bean paste but “was not comfortable with the taste”, he said, adding: 

“It was only Umar (Sani) who continued eating.”

He said he later saw Sani in the garden visibly ill and took him home.While trying to care for Sani, he learnt that three others who ate the food had died suddenly. 

Prosecutors allege that Tasiu’s poison food killed four people and have joined all the reported deaths into one murder charge.

Nigeria is not known to have executed a juvenile offender since 1997, when the country was ruled by military dictator Sani Abacha, according to Human Rights Watch.

Is this not the case of a victim turned the accused? Would a child act like an adult just because she is married to an adult?
 

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