A 40-year old house wife, Aisha Alhassan on Monday dragged her ex-husband Murtala Ishaq before Magajin Gari Sharia Court in Kaduna over alleged abandonment of his daughter for 20 years. The complainant told the court that since the birth of the daughter 20 years ago, she had been shouldering the girl’s responsibilities. “We divorced 20 years ago when Asiya was an infant, since then, he had never cared for her needs. The woman said that her daughter had to forfeit a Polytechnic admission opportunity because she could not afford the initial registration fees of N65,000. She prayed the court to compel Ishaq to henceforth take full responsibility of his daughter.

Source: Punch August 27, 2018 14:19 UTC