Tag Archives: MARRIAGE

The issue of bride price being overly extreme has always been a problem in Nigeria and other parts of Africa. Many families tend to go over the top when it comes to demands of what they want as bride price for the daughter’s hand in marriage and most men and …

No-one has got married in a village in Kano state, Nigeria, in the past four months after its chief imposed a wedding tax. Ado Sa’id, the chief of Kera village in north-west Nigeria, wants grooms to pay 137,000 naira ($377, £294). This is instead of the current custom of the …

A 29-year-old woman, Lucy Nkansah, has disclosed that she is on the verge of losing her marriage because her husband suspects she is intimate with his nephew. In an interview on Nhyira FM’s Obra show, monitored by Adomonline, Miss Nkansah said her husband, Asare Aikins became suspicious after he claimed …

A young Ukrainian man has managed to successfully avoid compulsory military service by staying married to a woman 57 years his senior for almost two years. Despite widespread criticism online, the man has the law on his side. In late 2017, Alexander Kondratyuk, a young man from the Ukrainian city …

The head of Marriage Division of the Registrar General’s Department, Mr Oladele Kwaku Aribike, says would-be couples can marry under the ordinance without necessarily going through customary marriage. According to him, customary marriage is not compulsory, adding that, “you can contract customary marriage without ordinance and ordinance marriage without customary …

Staunch admirer and self-acclaimed ‘husband’ of Charlotte Osei, former chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Hanan-Confidence Abdul has sought the permission of his ‘wife’ so he can get married to a second wife. Hanan-Confidence who is a trained nurse is scheduled to get married on September 29, 2019. However he had …

A middle aged women, Josephine Kyeremeh, has filed an application today August 2, 2019, seeking interlocutory injunction to restrain her husband from celebrating a marriage ceremony tomorrow, the 3rd of August 2019, in Nungua, a suburb of Accra. According to an affidavit deposed to by the mother of two and …