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‘My husband normally poisons my food’ – Divorce-seeking woman tells court
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Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan on Friday dissolved a 21-year-old marriage at the instance of an Ibadan-based caterer, Omotayo Kumunyi, on grounds of poisoning and domestic violence.
Kumunyi, a resident of Osungbade area of Ibadan, disclosed that her husband Olatunde doesn’t cater for her and their four children.
She added that when the problem became too much for her to bear, she moved away with three of her children while the second child remained behind.
“My lord, about five years ago, our third child confided in me that she usually saw her father pouring some black substance into my own food whenever I was not there.
“I was shocked by this piece of information and confronted him with the revelation.
“Subsequently, I invited him to eat part of the food and he declined tasting from it.
”As if that was not enough, Olatunde regularly turned our first child and I to a punching bag anywhere he came across us.
“I also beg the court to grant me custody of the children because Olatunde will not adequately take care of them,” Kumunyi said.
However, Olatunde didn’t react to most of the allegations leveled against him.
He, however, acknowledged payment of dowry to his wife’s parents.
Olatunde, a resident of Number 2 Olatunde Street, Police Post at Challenge in Ibadan, and who earned his living as a carpenter, gave a condition on the children’s upkeep.
He told the court that he would only be willing to pay N5,000 as the children’s monthly upkeep if the court refused to award him custody of the children.
“I want to take custody of the children because Kumunyi has the habit of maltreating the last two children.
“The second child with me had been going to school regularly,” Olatunde argued.
Delivering judgment, the court’s President, Mrs S.M. Akintayo, pronounced the marriage dissolved, insisting that it was duly contracted judging from the evidence adduced by the duo.
She granted custody of the the last three children to Kumunyi and instructed Olatunde to pay a monthly feeding allowance of N20,000 for their upkeep.
NAN reports that this was in addition to being responsible for their education and other welfare.
“The first child is 18 years of age and because he is an adult by law, he has the right to choose whoever to live with between his two parents.
“However, the petitioner must allow the respondent a reasonable access to the children,” the President said.
Akintayo, however, also granted an order restraining Olatunde from threatening, harassing, disturbing and interfering with the private life of Kumunyi going forward.
The spokesperson of the Delta State Police Command, SP Bright Edafe, was left stunned after two suspected drug dealers requested to take a photograph with him shortly after they were arrested and interrogated.
The suspects, identified as Omini Ezeri, 46, and Chinedum Wagbara, 42, were apprehended during a stop-and-search operation while travelling in a Mercedes-Benz ML SUV with registration number AAA 604 JZ along the Agbarho-Warri Road.
A search of the vehicle and its occupants led to the recovery of two Beretta pistols, a substance suspected to be cocaine, and a dagger. The suspects are currently in police custody, while investigations continue.
As part of the investigation, Edafe interrogated the suspects. Shortly after the interview, the duo surprised the police spokesperson by asking to take a photograph with him.
In a follow-up post shared on social media, Edafe said he had never encountered such behaviour before, explaining that the suspects appeared to become excited once they realised he intended to interview them.
He added that despite being arrested with cocaine and two pistols, which they claimed were used for their drug business, they still requested to take a picture with him after the interrogation.
The Catholic Diocese of Otukpo in Benue State has confirmed the safe return of its seminarian, Kelvin Ochai, who was abducted by gunmen at Asa III in Otukpo Local Government Area of the state.
This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Chancellor of the Catholic Diocese, Very Rev. Fr. Joseph Itodo, on Saturday.
Itodo attributed the seminarian’s safe return to divine intervention and the prayers of Christians and well-wishers.
According to the diocese, the seminarian escaped from the custody of his abductors and made his way to Aliade in Gwer East Local Government Area (LGA) of Benue State, where he was reunited with his family unharmed.
“Through the prayers of the people of God, Kelvin escaped from the custody of his abductors on the evening of Friday, 31st July, 2026, and made his way to Aliade, Gwer East LGA of Benue State. He has since been safely reunited with his family and is unharmed,” the statement read in part.
The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Otukpo, Most Rev. Michael Ekwoyi Apochi, expressed profound gratitude to priests, religious, lay faithful, and people of goodwill for their unwavering support and prayers during the period of the seminarian’s captivity.
The headquarters of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, FMBN, located in Abuja has been gutted by fire.
The fire was said to have started from the fourth floor of the building.
Speaking to DAILY POST, a personnel of Zenith Bank domiciled in the Mortgage Bank building, Anthony Ameh, said the fire is so intense.
According to him, operatives of the Federal Fire Service, who came to contain the fire have not been able to arrest the situation.
“The fire is so intense. About four trucks of Fire Service are here but they are unable to quench it,” he said.
At the time of filing this report, the cause of the fire incident cannot be ascertained.
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