A 55-year-old man, Elder Moses Ajuwa, has told a divorce court that his wife’s body odour has made it impossible for him to continue sleeping with her and wanted the court to dissolve his three-year-old marriage to his 30-year-old wife, Hauwa, on that account.

Apart from the smelly body odour, Elder Ajuwa also told the Grade A Customary Court sitting in Lagos State that his wife is also lazy and has failed to fulfil her obligations as a married woman and a disgrace to womanhood.

“I do not know why I must continue with this marriage. My so called wife can’t cook or keep the home.

She’s so lazy and dirty I can’t even sleep with her; the only thing she knows is to dress up and go to parties. I want a divorce.

I can’t continue with this marriage; it is better to be a bachelor than stay married to this excuse of a woman. She has failed at being a woman. I married her so she could take care of me after my first wife died; this is the worst mistake I ever made.

She can’t keep the home or cook. Every corner of our house stinks and unless I sweep, she doesn’t. Our rooms are filled with dirty laundry and I had to take my two children from my late wife to her family for proper care because I don’t want them in her care because she will turn them to slaves.

She is so dirty that I can’t even sleep with her; I buy food because our kitchen is too dirty to cook. Anytime I clean it up, she messes the house up again.

She never stays at home, once she gets one clean cloth and can dig her makeup out of the dung-hill she created in the room and a corner of the sitting room, she’s off. She rarely takes her bath. I have tried my best to make her change without success. Please separate us,” Elder Ajuwa told the court.

His wife, however, all the allegations levelled against her. In her defence, she told the court that her husband does not like her going out and is too autocratic.

“I am a small girl and he wants me to dress like an old woman. That I’m married doesn’t mean I should act like a dead woman. I want my marriage to work but my husband needs to relax his stance.

His other allegation is in bad faith because I have told him that the house is too big for me alone to maintain.”

The court has given the couple two months to see if they can resolve their issues and adjourned the case.

Residents of Atele Street in the Anibaba community, Ikorodu, Lagos on Tuesday woke up to find two nude women lifeless, who were dumped by the roadside.

The women, whose identities had yet to be known, also had their breasts cut off, while their private parts were also removed. Hmmm…what a mess!

According to Punch, the shocked residents tried in vain to locate the families of the deceased women. Some of the residents said the incident was the second time in two weeks that mutilated bodies of women would be found in the area.

It was earlier reported that six women were found dead in a canal in the area on Saturday, December 5.

It had been reported that the decomposing corpses were thereafter removed by officials of the Lagos State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit, and deposited in a morgue in Yaba.

Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Joe Offor, had told Punch that the relatives of the women had yet to show up, adding that the police were investigating the cause of the women’s death.

On Tuesday again two women were found by the roadside, stripped and mutilated. What is going on?

The PRO of Lagos Ministry of Heath, Mrs. Adeola Salako, confirmed the incident. “You are right about the two new corpses,” she said in a text message.

I Will Proceed to Supreme Court Following Appeal Court judgment – Wike releases statement:

The Appeal Court Panel presided over Justice Dongban Memsem has ordered the re-run of the Rivers State Governorship Election within 90 days. However, my legal team has concluded plans to appeal the judgment to the Supreme Court.

I had earlier approached the appellate court to set aside the judgment of the tribunal, arguing that the lower court failed to consider the evidence – that a proper election took place in Rivers state on April 11 – tendered before it.

The Court of Appeal has said that Nyesom Wike, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in this year’s election, was not validly elected, thereby affirming the judgment of the Rivers Governorship Election Tribunal.

The Rivers Tribunal had earlier on October 24 nullified Mr. Wike’s election.

The tribunal, which delivered its ruling in Abuja, also ordered that a fresh governorship election be conducted in the state.

After the tribunal’s ruling, the governor headed to the Court of Appeal, saying the judgment was untenable.

The petition challenging the election of Mr. Wike as Rivers State Governor was filed by Dakuku Peterside, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, in the election.

The Rivers governorship election, which was criticised by local and international observers, witnessed the largest amount of violence both in its build-up and after the elections.

Six people have been confirmed dead by emergency officials in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri.

Five Female suicide bombers reportedly detonated explosive devices in Maiduguri with little or no additional information provided by emergency agencies.

The Boko Haram terrorist group, responsible for most of the violence in Nigeria’s Northern region is suspected to be behind the latest blasts.

Despite a Presidential deadline of December 2015 for service chiefs, the insurgents have continually mounted hit and run type attacks.