A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on Wednesday dissolved a marriage involving a trader, Sadia Abass, and her husband, Azeez, over a missing underwear.
Sadia had petitioned the Court, seeking dissolution of her marriage over allegations that he had stolen her underwear for ritual.
She told Chief Ademola Odunade, the President of the court, that she feared that her life might be in perpetual danger if she continued to live under the same roof “with a man planning to use me for something diabolic”.
Sadia added that her husband’s attitude had made the marriage “so miserable and unattractive”.
“When the ill-treatment reached its peak, I discovered that my underwear suddenly got missing. I checked everywhere but did not see it. He also denied ever seeing it.
“Three days later, the missing underwear resurfaced where I had checked over and over and I made him realise his evil intention toward me.
“Only God knows what would have happened or might still happen to me because I have made it clear to him that I will not continue with the relationship.
“From day one when I got married to him, he has not been responsible.
“Even during my pregnancy and after, he never showed me care.
“Despite his irresponsibility, he usually attempt to rape me even when I’m not in the mood and I reported him to his parents.
“Besides, Azeez has been monitoring me all over the place,” Sadia stated.
Under cross examination, Azeez refuted all the allegations levelled against him.
Azeez claimed that the wife had continued to plunge him into debt.
“Sadia does not wish me well; all the money that I was supposed to spend on my business usually fall into her hands.
“Worse still, she always returns home around midnight.
“In fact, Sadia’s usual late homecoming affected our child negatively; his teachers told us that he sleeps when other children are learning.
“Most of the time, I buy food to eat when she refuses to cook.
“Every now and then, she nags and packs in and out of the house,” Azeez alleged.
Odunade, in his judgement, held that there was no more love between the duo and pronounced the marriage dissolved “in the interest of peace and harmony”.
He granted custody of the only child produced by the union to the plaintiff, and ordered the defendant to pay N5,000 monthly for the child’s feeding.
Azeez was also ordered to bankroll the education and basic welfare of the child.
Nollywood actor, Yul Edochie says he only does money rituals in films and not in real life.
The opinionated actor made this known on Twitter on Monday when he joked about the fans who are still sending him their account details three weeks into the coronavirus lockdown.
In his words:” Some folks are still sending me account numbers, after 3 weeks of lockdown.Come on now guys, na all of us dey the matter oo.
3 weeks nothing don enter, no work.Na for film I dey do money ritual, it’s not real.
I dey wait for alert from Federal Govt.e don red everywhere”.
TheNewsGuru recalls that back in February, Edochie reacted to a comment by Babatunde Fashola, minister for works and housing, where he blamed Nollywood for widespread cases of money rituals and kidnapping across the country.
Fashola had while speaking at an event in Lagos called out the country’s movie industry over its continuous use of ritual-related themes.
In his reaction, Yul said: “Sadly, at the moment Nigeria is stuck with a crop of leaders who can’t move this country forward, rather they look for who to blame for their inefficiency,” he said.
“America has been producing action movies with plenty of gun violence since I was born. Have you ever seen any American leader blaming entertainers for crime in their country?
“That’s because it’s all about entertainment and it ends there.
“Our government should focus on providing jobs for the youths, spread wealth, improve the economy and security and crime rate will reduce. It’s very simple.
“They should stop looking for who to blame and do the jobs they were voted in to do or resign for others to try. Next thing, you’ll see them thinking of how to ban Nollywood and render more people jobless.”
Prophet Segun Phillips, who confessed to killing Favour Daley for ritual purposes, is not a member of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church, the church has declared.
A statement by the Chief Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Cherubim & Seraphim Unification Church of Nigeria, the umbrella body of C & S churches worldwide, Apostle M. O. Adeyemi, explained there was no record where Segun Philips is associated with the C & S and officers of the church in Irewolede/Isokan Local Government Area of Osun State where he committed the heinous crime.
The Church PRO said: “We have contacted all our officers in the Zone and they said they did not know him or his church. Besides, our Youth Fellowship went as far as locating his church and came with the reports (including photographs) of not seeing any signpost or imprint of C & S in his place of worship.
“We wonder why the Press hurriedly tagged him a “C & S Prophet”. We are not unmindful of the fact that many charlatans hide under the Freedom of Association as guaranteed by the Nigerian constitution to set up places of worship for different purposes. Some of them adopt white garments and mimick our mode of worship even when they are not registered or under the episcopal authourity of the leadership of the C & S.
“We appeal to the members of the Press to always ascertain the true identity of some fake Pastors and Prophets wearing white garments to deceive unsuspecting members of the public for pecuniary gains.
“It is rather unfortunate that anybody calling himself a Christian could be that devilish and kill a fellow human being for money-making ritual. The C & S Church is a Bible-believing Church that strongly believes in the sacredness of the blood of Jesus and frowns at any blood-letting rituals. ”
The church strongly condemned the act and urged the law enforcement officers to fish out the ilks of Philips before killing more unsuspecting Nigerians.
The Church also commiserated with the family of the young undergraduate and the Lagos State University (LASU) community.
A domestic worker and her plumber boyfriend have been apprehended and handed over to men of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF), after preliminary investigations revealed that they were involved in alleged kidnap of 15-year-old Bella which they reportedly intended to use for money rituals.
TheNewsGuru (TNG) gathered that the domestic worker known as Tope [Surname withheld] and her plumber boyfriend, Sunday [Surname withheld] allegedly connived and kidnapped the victim, Bella on New Year Day.
17-year-old Tope said she carried out the dastard act with 24-year-old Sunday, who is a plumber to Bella’s guardian, because he had promised her marriage, TNG gathered.
Tope during interrogation said: “Sunday, my boyfriend called me on phone on the 30th of December 2018, saying he wants to be rich and that he is tired of wallowing in poverty”.
Sunday and Tope all loved up
She further said: “I asked him how he intends to become rich, knowing that he is a plumber”.
“He then said he will do what his mates are doing to get money.
“I then asked him if he wants to go into money rituals, but he said nothing,” Tope stated.
“Thereafter, he convinced me that once he becomes rich, he is going to marry me.
“He called me very early on the 1st of January to bring Bella outside the gate of our house, which I did,” she added.
While explaining how she got Bella to Sunday, Tope said, “I woke Bella up and I took her outside in the guise of going to sweep the entrance of the house.
“She succumbed and I left her outside with hope that Sunday would come to pick her.
“I don’t know if Sunday came to pick her himself or if he sent someone to pick her”.
In a chat with TNG, Bella’s guardian, whom Tope is working for, speaking on the incident, said that when Bella could not be found, they were compelled to question Tope, after discovering there had been communication between the plumber and her before and on the day of Bella’s disappearance.
The guardian who reside in the Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos state said they had woken up with high hopes on the 1st of January 2019, getting set for their morning devotion when they found Bella was missing.
“We had to beckon on Tope to go upstairs to call Bella for the morning devotion.
“Amazingly, she wasn’t found and that was how she became missing for 3 days,” the guardian narrated.
“She didn’t even confess until after Bella came back. When Bella came back, she was shocked. She was even crying.
“I was thinking she was shocked that she has seen her, but later I realize that the shock was not about that.
“It was about the fact that everything has been exposed,” he further stated.
TNG gathered that Bella was miraculously found in the neighbourhood January 3rd looking shabby, without footwear.
However, when Bella was questioned by her guardian about her disappearance in the night of her return, she could not recall anything, and then lost consciousness.
“She cannot remember anything,” family sources who preferred anonymity told TNG.
According to the guardian, she was immediately rushed to a hospital for treatment, where she is said to be recuperating.
After hearing Tope’s confession, the guardian reported the case to the police in Festac town.
“The case is still there at the Festac police station,” the guardian said.
Sunday and Tope at the Police Station
The guardian revealed that the police is also following up on one Alfa that Sunday took Bella to for ritual purpose.
He said the police saw communication between Sunday and the Alfa, but that when Sunday was interrogated, he denied he doesn’t know anyone like that.
However, Sunday later agreed he knows the Alfa, whom he took Bella to for the ritual purpose.
“The police are saying that Tope is just 17, a juvenile, therefore, should be released on administrative bail.
“I have to call the DPO and told him I don’t understand what his men are saying, that they want to release a kidnap suspect on a weekend on administrative bail on age grounds without proper investigation of the case,” he said.
When contacted, the DPO, did not immediately pick TNG’s call nor returned our calls as at the time of filing this report.
Meanwhile, the guardian told TNG that “Sunday could not say much because probably he has sworn to an oath not to reveal anything on the matter”.
“If we didn’t find this girl, today, it would have been a different story. If the girl didn’t come back or we didn’t see her, we will be running helter-skelter, she will be sitting down here eating, and be asking, “Have you found her?” You will think she is on our side.
“And more danger in it is that, if Sunday should finish with the rituals and the money comes, and Tope is still here, God forbid, he might want to eliminate Tope since she knows the secret.
“They will say, one got missing, another one died, this pastor, what is he doing with people’s children. So, I really thank God.
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“We thank God that Bella is getting better at the hospital where she has been placed on admission,” the guardian stated.
A man has countered his wife’s claims that she bleeds after sex because her husband wants to use her for money-making rituals.
Mother-of-two, Aina, had claimed in her divorce suit that her husband, Adebayo Adeniji, brought a certain calabash home in which he washes his hands; and that at midnight, he gets up to start casting incantations of all sorts.
Adebayo, however, countered that Aina bled after sex because she was a cancer patient.
“My travails in Adebayo’s home reached its climax when blood started flowing from my private part anytime he had sexual intercourse with me,” Aina narrated on Tuesday before a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, asking it to dissolve her 32-year marriage to Adeniji.
She also accused her husband of drunkenness.
In her petition, Aina, a resident of Oke-Ado area of Ibadan, also claimed that the husband had concluded moves to use her for money rituals.
“My lord, I have recorded 32 years of horror, sadness and tears in Adebayo’s home.
“Little did I know that he had, all along, planned how to use me as part of his objects for his money ritual and I was staying with him with all faithfulness.
“What I discovered was that Adebayo brought a certain calabash home in which he washes his hands. Then, in the midnight, he gets up to start casting incantations of all sorts.
“My travail in Adebayo’s home reached its climax when blood started flowing from my private part anytime he has sexual intercourse with me.
“Adebayo is a deadly drunkard who is often exposed to public ridicule in his drunkenness,” Aina alleged.
In his response, the husband denied some of the allegations against him by Aina, but agreed that the marriage be dissolved.
Adebayo said, “My lord, I want this court to know that Aina had, on 10 different occasions, parted ways with me, but always returned after sometime.
“It is not true that I was attempting to use Aina for any money ritual, but I was trying to solve my own problem.
“I know that I am addicted to beer and a given prophet in Ibadan gave me the calabash to perform certain actions with.
“I take only two to three bottles and I don’t get myself afterwards.
“Well, it is not my sexual intercourse that causes Aina to bleed through her private part; she is a cancer patient, and cancer is probably the cause.
“I want the court to order her to return my house document in her custody to me.”
However, the president of the court, Chief Ademola Odunade, asked the duo to provide more evidence to support their claims and also ordered them to come along with their two two grown up children on the next adjourned date.
Odunade adjourned the case till May 15 for judgment.
Jessiah (surname withheld), a Pentecostal church pastor whose church is in Ugbolu community near Asaba, Delta state is currently on the run after he allegedly killed one Ejiofor Ujah, a member of his church during prayer session for rituals.
According to Leadership, Ujah was allegedly called by the pastor for a prayer session but was not seen after that. His body was later found by a hunter in a soak-away not too far from the church, with the pastor’s whereabouts unknown.
The police public relations officer in the state, Mr. Andrew Aniamaka, confirmed the incident, saying two persons have been arrested are still being detained in connection with the act, while investigation is ongoing with a view to arresting the fleeing suspects (the pastor and two others).
Findings revealed that the incident which occurred Tuesday, February 7, in Ugbolu community, has put terror in the hearts of residents around the area. The church has been deserted by its members since the incident involving their general overseer occurred.
An insider, Kate Okafor alleged that the pastor had on the fateful Tuesday called the victim for a prayer session and in response, the victim who allegedly smelt a rat of danger told the wife of his movement to the church before the bubble burst.
But this was not to be when the victim the following day did not return home, this created suspicion and the wife raised the alarm as after she visited the church in her efforts to see the husband met a brick wall.
Mrs. Rosemary Ujah, the victim’s wife said; “I was confused when I did not find my husband in the church two days after and I raised the alarm after reporting to the police at Ugbolu Police Division and a search party conducted which discovered his corpse in soak away”.
Unconfirmed sources said the pastor had allegedly been found suspicious before the incident as many occasions, he performed unholy act in the church.
One Babalola Rotimi, 24 arrested for killing his father and stabbing his mother in their home at Magodo Phase 2, Lagos has said he committed the crime in self defence when it was clear they were going to use him for rituals.
Babalola who was recently recalled by his parents from the United Kingdom (UK) said everything was going on fine until his parents decided to resort to diabolical means to force him home for ulterior motives.
In his words: “My father got what he deserved. He started it all. I was living in the United Kingdom when he used black magic to bring me back to Nigeria and he locked me up in the house. I don’t know what they intended to do with me.
‘They called some native doctors to do some rituals with red oil which they kept in my room. The native doctors made some incisions on my body and since then, I have not really been myself and I have been seeing strange things and hearing strange voices.
“As a religious person, I resorted to God and was praying for my freedom but each time I tried to escape, my father will call area boys who will beat me up with reckless abandon. The intimidation was too much and I was looking for any means of escape. One day, I escaped from my room to the kitchen and I took two kitchen knives which I hid in my pocket for protection.
“On that fateful day, while my mother was cooking in the kitchen, I greeted her but she started raining abuses on me. I knew there was trouble because she always beats me whenever she is angry. I went to my father too and he started raining curses on me.
“When I asked what the problem was, he started beating me and as I was tired of his beating, I dipped my hand in my pocket and brought out the knife and stabbed him in the leg. When he wanted to disarm me, I stabbed him in the stomach and he fell down and my mother started shouting.
“I threatened her to give me the key to the door so that I can leave. She refused and I stabbed her too. They started it all. They wanted to use me for ritual. I regret my actions anyway but if they did not bring me back to Nigeria, I would have still been in the UK.”
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