Court dissolves 16-year-old marriage over wife’s request

<p>An Area Court at Centre-Igboro, Ilorin, Kwara, has dissolved the Islamic marriage between Rashidat Mumeen and Saliman Mumeen at the request of the wife.</p>, <p>The presiding judge, Abdul Qadir Umar, ruled that the husband and wife should go their separate ways due to their inability to settle their misunderstanding.</p>, <p>The husband had earlier agreed to the wife’s divorce application but wanted custody of the children to keep them in his mother’s care.</p>, <p>Umar said that the wife should observe the three-month Iddah period, as prescribed by Islam, and that they must conduct another Islamic marriage if they want to continue as husband and wife again.</p>, <p>He, however, granted Rashidat custody of the four children produced by the union.</p>, <p>His wife, however, objected, saying that she wouldn’t allow anyone to take care of her children on her behalf while alive.</p>