Edo: Court dissolves journalist’s marriage, grants her custody of children

An Edo High Court sitting successful Benin City, presided implicit by the Chief of the State, Justice Daniel Okungbowa, has dissolved the 12-year matrimony betwixt Ms Best Mbiere, a pistillate writer and her estranged hubby Mr Okechukwu Mbiere, implicit the irreconcilable breakdown of the union.

DAILY POST reports that the tribunal delivered the judgement successful a suit filed by the pistillate writer against her hubby connected May 17, 2023, seeking dissolution of the matrimony and different reliefs.

The marriage, contracted connected February 8, 2014, became the taxable of ineligible proceedings successful court.

Mbiere, a erstwhile newsman with the Independent Television and Radio, Benin City had told the tribunal that she had borne the fiscal load of the household since the responsive mislaid his occupation successful 2018

The writer who is present the laminitis of BeeTV News, an online television, among different reliefs, sought the custody of the children, monthly attraction of N150,000, and a refund of N7 cardinal allegedly utilized to found a boutique concern for the respondent.

She further prayed for the repayment of N21.5 cardinal allegedly utilized to settee debts arising from fraud-related issues, and owner...