KADUNA BUSINESSMAN DRAGS EX FIANCEE’S FATHER TO COURT, DEMANDS DOWRY REFUND. (PHOTO).
Kaduna businessman drags ex fiancee’s father to court, demands dowry refund A businessman, Nasiru Dayyabu, on Wednesday, dragged the father of his ex-fiance, Mallam Sani Direba, to Shari’a Court II sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna over N260,000 dowry. The complainant had joined Direba in the suit against two brothers demanding a refund of N250, 000 dowry and N10,000 introduction money he paid to marry his daughter. Represented by his counsel, Mr Sani Sunusi, the complainant told the court that he sent his people from Karaye, Kano State to Kaduna in 2025, to seek for the defendant’s daughter’s hand in marriage. “We paid the dowry and the introduction money (kudin gausuwa) and were waiting for them to set a date for the wedding,” he said. “Unfortunately, the lady’s father called to inform us that they have cancelled the marriage.” The counsel said the complainant had asked for the refund of his money since Sept. 2025 but all the efforts he made proved abortive. He claimed that his client ...
Olisa Metuh,a former spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP,has again lost his bid to stop his N400 million fraud trial,as the Supreme Court,on June 9,2017 dismissed his application seeking for a stay of proceedings.Metuh is standing trial along with Destra Investment Limited for the alleged fraud.He is facing a seven-count charge brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC,before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court,Abuja.He had filed the application through his counsel,Onyeachi Ikpeazu,SAN,seeking for a stay of proceedings at the High Court.Ikpeazu had at the March 22 ,2017 sitting before Justice Abang,also applied to the court to ''stay proceedings'',as the Supreme Court,according to him had at the time already begun hearing the appeal.He had argued that the High Court' ought to defer to the Supremme Court'',which had fixed June 9,2017 to rule on the application.His application was however,vehemently opposed by prosecution counsel,Sylvanus Tahir,who had argued that it was ''a ploy to waste the time of the court''.Justice Abang had fied May 2,2017 to rule on Ikpeazu's application for a ''stay of proceedings '' but could not deliver the ruling,noting that the ruling was not ready.Metuh had on May 24,2016 also lost at the Appeal Court,to overturn the decision of Justice Abang who had on March 9,2016 dismissed a similar application.Tahir,who commended the ruling,noted that ''the significant aspect of the ruling is that before now,it is only at the level of the Court of Appeal that the issue of Section 306 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act,ACJA 2015 has been tested''.Metuh's trial is therefore expected to continue on June 19,2017 before Justice Abang.
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