Court dissolves 30-year-old marriage over abandonment, church beliefs

An Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos, on Friday dissolved a 30-year-old marriage between a Civil Servant, Virginia Ugwuja and her husband, Emmanuel, a retired police officer, over irreconcilable differences.The 49-year-old petitioner told the court that her estranged husband, who is a pastor, accused her of being possessed by an evil spirit.Since he heard from the church that I possessed an evil spirit, he started denying me conjugal rights and abandoned me and our eight children, five years ago.