Toke Makinwa and Maje Ayida’s 3-year old marriage has finally been dissolved by an Igbosere High Court sitting in Lagos on Thursday.
Toke filled for divorce on March 9, 2016, on grounds that her husband committed adultery.
Justice Morenike Obadina, while delivering judgment held that Ayida did file an answer to the petition but did not give oral evidence in support of it.
“Pleadings on which no evidence was led are deemed abandoned. Therefore, Ayida’s evidence is deemed abandoned.
“The effect being that the petitioner’s evidence is unchallenged and uncontroverted,’’ she ruled.
The judge said:
“I hold that the marriage has broken down on grounds of intolerable behaviour.
“I hereby pronounce a `Decree Nisi’ dissolving the marriage between Makinwa and Ayida which was administered at the Federal Marriage Registry, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Jan. 15, 2014.
“The order Nisi shall become absolute three months from today unless within that period sufficient cause is shown why it should not be made absolute,” Obadina said.