CHARITY CHAMBER

16/12/2025

Before you push for court marriage, know it's true advantages and disadvantages and be sure of your decision.

First, there is nothing like court marriage in Nigeria. What you are calling court marriage is actually called "statutory marriage" or "Marriage at the registry" or "Marriage under the Act"

🚨🚨The advantages of statutory marriage are:

📍It only recognise one husband and one wife. It is a monogamous marriage.

📍It is easy to have and not expensive. With less than ₦70,000 you can have a valid statutory marriage.

📍It does not require parental consents for adults above 21 years.

📍Only two adult witnesses are required for the marriage to be valid and these witnesses do not need to be family members.

📍If a spouse contract another marriage with someone else without first divorcing the legal spouse, the legal spouse can sue the other for bigamy.

Bigamy is the 0ffence of marrying a second wife/husband and it comes with 7 years imprisonment.

📍The legal spouse can sue whom their spouse married and that will land the person 5 years imprisonment for marrying someone who had a statutory marriage and is not divorced.

📍Adultery is a ground for divorce and you can claim compensation against the spouse who committed adultery and the person they committed adultery with.

📍In the case of d£ath of one spouse, the living spouse have the legal rights to take control of what the late spouse acquired.

📍Even if the other spouse has side chicks and side c***s, or had traditional marriage with someone else, the legal spouse is the only one that will have a say and be recognized.

📍The marriage certificate, which has Nigerian Coat of Arms, and FORM E written on it is the only marriage certificate that is recognized all over the world. Any other marriage certificate is invalid.

The disadvantages of a statutory marriage (it can be advantages to some people depending on a particular case) are:

🚨It does not give children of the marriage special privilege against children born by the parents outside wedlock. All children of the couple, have equal rights.

For example, if your husband gets a woman pregnant and bears children outside, those children have right to inheritance alongside your children.

🚨There is nothing like 50/50 sharing of property during divorce. You can only get a share of what was acquired after the marriage and you must prove you contributed to acquiring them. Evidence comes into play!

🚨The divorce process is only done in any High Court in Nigeria.

🚨 Return of bride price does not end the marriage. You must go to court.

🚨You MUST use the services of a lawyer for the divorce case.

🚨The divorce case can last 2-5 years before it is concluded in the High Court.

🚨You MUST have money for the divorce case. For start to finish, budget between ₦700,000 - ₦1.5million for lawyer's fee, appearance fee, filing and service of court papers.

Stop forcing your partner to go for statutory marriage if the benefits you seek are different from these.

25/11/2025

Before you recommend someone for Business, read this!

Your reputation and sometimes your liability is on the line.

Many people don’t know this, but referring someone to a business, contractor, agent, or dealer can put you in trouble if things go wrong.
Why?
Because in law, a recommendation can sometimes be seen as your representation that the person is:
- trustworthy
- known to you
- reliable
- capable of delivering what they promised
So if the person you recommended turns out to be a fraudster, the victim may come back to you not just emotionally, but sometimes legally.

Now, the question is; How can you become liable?
Under Nigerian civil law, you may be held responsible in situations like: Negligent Misrepresentation(Depending on the circumstances)

If you boldly told someone:
“Don’t worry, he is very trustworthy.”
“I know him well.”
“He can’t scam you.”

but in reality you don’t actually know the person well or failed to verify them, the law may say you carelessly gave false assurance.
The victim can sue for losses.

- At what point can you be sued?
* You spoke carelessly without verifying,
* Someone relied on what you said,
* They suffered loss because of it.

Even when the law doesn’t hold you fully responsible, to avoid police case and professional or reputational risk,
Keep away from;
- recommending people you don’t know fully well.
- giving personal guarantees

You can use disclaimers like;
“I know the person, but please do your own checks.”

Don’t say:❌
- He can never disappoint.
- I guarantee you’ll get your money.
- Just pay him; I vouch for him. Etc
These statements can be used against you.

Protect your name.
Protect your peace.

23/11/2025

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21/11/2025

This is how a UNICAL (University of Calabar) dean, Professor Cyril Ndifon was sentenced to five years in prison. Prof. Cyril Ndifon, suspended Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Calabar (UNICAL) was charged with one Sunny Anyanwu. There were given four counts: s*xual harassment, cyber-crime, and attempt to pervert the course of justice.

One student, referred to as “TKJ” in court, testified that Ndifon asked her for n**e photographs and even s*xual favors (a “blow job”) in return for help gaining admission to study law. The ICPC presented its case and closed it on February 14, 2024. Ndifon filed a no-case submission, arguing the prosecution had no sufficient case; but the court l dismissed this on March 6, 2024, and ordered him to open his defense.

The court convicted the Prof Cyril as described him as a s*x predator, according to the court “It was with dismay I read through this case that a dean of law can turn himself into a s*xual predator…The instances of undue advantage (against the female students) are so many. The first defendant abused his office. Ndifon was found guilty on counts 1 and 2 (2 years imprisonment); Count 2 (5 years imprisonment, the sentences are to run concurrently, so effectively he serves 5 years.

Justice Omotosho strongly condemned Ndifon’s behavior, calling it an “abuse of office” this is an example to other lecturers.

15/12/2024

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05/10/2024

HOW WE PROCESS DIVORCE CASES

When a person files a divorce petition, it will either be a full package or not a full package. I will explain what we mean by full-package. When you file a divorce petition, there are about five different things you are asking the court to do for you. These are as follows:

(1) DISSOLUTION OF THE MARRIAGE: That is; you are asking the court to pronounce that you and your spouse are no longer married. If the court dissolves the marriage, you and your spouse are freed from the obligations of marriage. You are no longer obligated to live together and share a common household. You are no longer obligated to take care of each other or to keep each other company or to support each other. You are no longer his wife, and he is no longer your husband. You are no longer obligated to be faithful to the person you were married to. In fact, you are now free to date or marry another person because your marriage has been dissolved.

(2) CUSTODY OF MINOR CHILDREN: The court will also make a determination regarding the custody of any minor child of the marriage. So, most of the time in your divorce petition, you are also asking the court to award the custody of the children to you.

(3) VISITATION: Once the court awards custody of the children to one of the parents, the court will normally set the standards and terms under which the other parent would be spending time with the children. This is called visitation or access to the child. The word visitation tends to confuse people a lot. It does not mean that the other parent has the right to visit the parent who has custody. It simply means access and opportunity to spend time with or to stay connected to your child that does not live with you.

(4) CHILD SUPPORT: Once the court awards custody to one parent, the court will also determine how much the other parent should be contributing as child support. So, when you are asking the court to award you custody of the children, you are also asking the court to order the other parent to be paying some money to you in the form of child support.

(5) SHARE OF MARITAL PROPERTIES: Once you file for divorce, if you have any property acquired during the marriage such as land, cars, boats, buildings, etc., you will be asking the court to give you your share of such marital properties.

(6) SPOUSAL SUPPORT / ALIMONY: If one spouse is much richer than the other spouse, the spouse who has no money will be asking the court to order the other spouse to continue to support her financially even after divorce. This is called alimony. This is different from marital property distribution. The purpose of alimony is to ensure that divorce does not immediately result in poverty for either of the parties.

You can see from the above that divorce is not just about your marriage. Ending the marriage is not really the main reason people file for divorce. The main reason for divorce is about the children and the sharing of marital properties. If you have no children and there is no property to share, and you are not planning to remarry immediately, most people will not bother to file any divorce. They will just move on with their lives. Divorce proceeding is the best way to protect the children of the marriage.

In some divorce cases, all these six remedies are being asked for. As you can easily understand, in some divorce cases, the dissolution of the marriage is the only thing they want. For instance, if you do not have children or property, and if your spouse is not much richer than you, the only thing you will be asking for is the dissolution of the marriage. You won’t ask for custody, visitation, or child support because there is no child. And if you don’t have property, there will be nothing to share. When all you want is just a dissolution of the marriage, your divorce is not a full-package one.

For every lawyer involved in divorce cases, he has to be aware of the scope of issues involved in each case he has. The fewer the issues, the less expensive the fees he charges. For instance, if you married a man for, say, three years, and you have no children and no property, and there is a good ground for divorce, your divorce will be easy. The number of issues involved in a divorce case determines how long it takes to conclude the case and how expensive it will be.

What smart lawyers with good clients do is to narrow down on the issues that are disputed. For instance, husband and wife could agree ahead that the children would be with their mother and that the father will have them every two weekends. They may also agree on how much he would give for child support and how to share property. That means that only dissolution is left for the court to order. By so doing, they have reduced the areas of disagreement to zero. Their divorce will be swift and easy to conclude.

NOTE: Divorce is not just about what happens in court. There is a need to give the parties pre-petition counseling and post-judgment counseling. In the pre-petition counseling, you have to prepare the party you represent to understand the impact of the divorce on her life, how things would change – for better and for worse, and how she should deal with these changes. Also, the post-judgment counseling is intended to discuss with the party you represent her options after the marriage has been dissolved. The counseling is very important because many people who want divorce do not understand what it entails, and many people who got divorced do not know how to quickly adjust to their new life as single people.

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