By Kayode Sanni-Arewa

A Grade 1 Area Court, Lugbe, Abuja , Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has dissolved the 12-year-old marriage between a businesswoman, Maryam Shaibu and her husband, Adamu Nasiru over lack of love and care.

The judge, Aliyu Kagarko, dissolved their marriage according to Islamic Law, following Maryam’s prayer for divorce on grounds of lack of love and care.

Kagarko also ordered Maryam to observe “Iddah”, which is a three-month period of observation after the judgment before contracting another marriage.

Earlier, the petitioner, Maryam, told the court that she got married to Nasiru under Islamic law in 2013, and the union produced two children.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), she said that Nasiru moved out of the house since October 2022, because of a little misunderstanding, thus abandoning her and their children to cater for themselves.Nigerian food

She stated that the issue had lingered for long, adding that in spite of family intervention, the situation has not changed.

We have been separated for some years now and I have been taking care of our children single-handedly.

“I am no longer interested in our marriage because there is no more love,” she told the court.

She therefore prayed the court to dissolve their union.

The respondent, however, consented to divorce.

By Kayode Sanni-Arewa

A 32-year-old woman of George Compound in Lusaka, Zambia, has dragged her elder brother’s wife to court for accusing her of being a witch and telling her husband that she would turn him into a skeleton if he did not leave her.

Mwansa Sinkala has told the court that her sister-in-law, Grace Daka, 30, also told her husband that her pregnancy was not his but for a boyfriend she allegedly invited into their matrimonial home whenever he wasn’t around.

According to Newsdiggers, Sinkala lamented that these allegations made her husband leave their matrimonial home, and she was now stranded because she was heavily pregnant.

In this matter, Sinkala, the plaintiff, is seeking compensation for defamation from Daka.

By Kayode Sanni-Arewa

The United States said Friday it was invalidating the legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, giving them weeks to leave the country.

President Donald Trump has pledged to carry out the largest deportation campaign in US history and curb immigration, mainly from Latin American nations.

The order affected around 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans who came to the United States under a scheme launched in October 2022 by Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden and expanded in January the following year.

They will lose their legal protection 30 days after the Department of Homeland Security’s order is published in the Federal Register, which is scheduled for Tuesday.

That means immigrants sponsored by the program “must depart the United States” by April 24 unless they have secured another immigration status allowing them to remain in the country, the order says.

Welcome.US, which supports people seeking refuge in the United States, urged those affected by the move to “immediately” seek advice from an immigration lawyer.

The Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV) program, announced in January 2023, allowed entry to the United States for two years for up to 30,000 migrants per month from the four countries, which have grim human rights records.

Biden touted the plan as a “safe and humane” way to ease pressure on the crowded US-Mexico border.

But the Department of Homeland Security stressed Friday that the scheme was “temporary.”

“Parole is inherently temporary, and parole alone is not an underlying basis for obtaining any immigration status, nor does it constitute an admission to the United States,” it said in the order.

Trump last week invoked rare wartime legislation to fly more than 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to El Salvador, which has offered to imprison migrants and even US citizens at a discount.