An Area Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, has dissolved the marriage between a couple, Rashida Bashir and her husband, Bashir Adegboye, over the latter’s womanising attitude.

The presiding judge, Hammed Ajumonbi, in his ruling, said that the letter sent by the husband revealed that he agreed to divorce.

Ajumonbi, therefore, dissolved their marriage and ordered the petitioner to observe three months iddah period in accordance with Islamic rites.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the court granted custody of the two children from their marriage to the wife and ordered the husband to pay N20,000 monthly for the maintenance and feeding of their children.

The husband was also granted unrestricted access to the children whenever he wished, but at reasonable time.

Earlier, the petitioner had told the court that her husband was a womaniser and that he did not have any respect for her while dating other women.

Rashida said that she did not want to get infected with any disease from her husband, considering the rate at which he slept with other women

“He told me that he had two wives before I got married to him, but the most senior wife later told me that nine women had children for him,” she said.

“These women call me all the time to abuse and curse me. “I am tired of our relationship.”

The Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, has disclosed that 18 vessels are currently offloading petroleum products and assorted cargoes at major ports in Lagos, including Apapa, Lekki and Tin Can Island.

In a cargo status update issued on Saturday, the authority said the ships are discharging a mix of commodities such as bulk fertiliser, general cargo, bulk sugar, petrol, bulk urea, condensate, gypsum and containerised goods.

An additional 46 vessels carrying petroleum products, food items and other imports are scheduled to arrive at Lagos ports between Saturday and February 22.

The NPA noted that the expected vessels will deliver a wide range of consignments, including general cargo, bulk urea, wheat, empty containers, crude oil, refined crude, gypsum, trucks, bulk gas, pallets, containerised goods, salt and petrol.

It added that seven ships have already reached the ports and are awaiting berthing approval. These vessels are laden with cargoes such as bulk urea, crude oil, diesel, aviation fuel, general merchandise and petrol.

Bashir El-Rufai has clarified that his father, Nasir El-Rufa’i, has never admitted to tapping anyone’s phone.

According to him, his father only stated that another person carried out the phone tapping and later passed the information to him without being asked.

He also appealed to the public not to misrepresent the issue in a way that could cause trouble for his father, urging people to stop attempting to implicate him.

He wrote on X: “He did not say HE tapped anybody’s phone. He alleged someone else did and unsolicitedly shared the information to him. No dey try help dem put my Papa for prison, abeg.”

His clarification comes after calls by Bayo Onanuga, the president’s aide on Information and Strategy, for an investigation into El-Rufa’i, citing the gravity of the former governor’s comments.

El-Rufa’i had previously stated on live television that he had information about a conversation on the NSA, Nuhu Ribadu’s phone.

His son, however, denied that his father had initiated the phone tapping.