KADUNA BUSINESSMAN DRAGS EX FIANCEE’S FATHER TO COURT, DEMANDS DOWRY REFUND. (PHOTO).

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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 ...

MAN DIES AFTER HIGH CONSUMPTION OF BURUKUTU DRINK IN ABUJA.(PHOTO).



MAN DIES AFTER HIGH CONSUMPTION OF BURUKUTU DRINK IN ABUJA



A middle-aged man simply identified as Hassan, has reportedly lost his life after high consumption of a local liquor known as burukutu in Kubwa, Abuja.

The deceased was said to have engaged in a drinking spree with his friends in the Byazhin area of Kubwa, Bwari Area Council of the FCT last Saturday when the incident happened.

According to Daily Trust, a witness, Bello Yusuf, said Hassan died while vomiting after consuming the drink.

He said, “Hassan and his friends, mostly touts and urchins, were seen drinking heavily during the day. They were competing over who would finish some calabashes of a local liquor popularly called burukutu.

“It was during the contest that Hassan collapsed. His friends who tried to revive him took him away. When they were unable to bring him back to life, they abandoned him in an uncompleted building and fled.”

A police officer at the Kubwa division told our reporter that “One Ibrahim reported that a man, popularly known as Hassan, was found dead in an uncompleted building in Byazhin”.


 

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