Alcoholic stupor, hemp-smoking crash 2-year-old marriage in Lagos

After about two years of irreconcilable differences orchestrated by the husband’s excessive alcoholism and hemp smoking, a Lagos court on Tuesday dissolved the marriage between Segun Falaye and his wife, Celestina.

A Lagos suburb Igando Customary Court ordered that the couple should cease to be husband and wife immediately.

Father dumps 2-year-old daughter at `Maishayi' place

A two-year-old girl has been abandoned at a local cafe, popularly known as `Maishayi' place, in Lokoja, by a man believed to be her father.

Hajia Bilikisu Momoh, the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development in Kogi, told newsmen on Friday in Lokoja that the girl was abandoned on Jan. 7.

Momoh said that the man, had after buying a cup of tea for the girl, excused himself to buy some other things but failed to show up again.