‘My wife refuses to bear my surname’

• She always tells me that she is comfortable with her father’s name, and that she cannot change it — Husband An Igando Customary Court in Lagos State has dissolved a three-year marriage of a civil servants over the refusal of the woman to bear her husband’s surname. The court president, Mr R. Adeyeri, held that Mr Johnson Munago and his wife Helen, both aged 35, were tired of their marriage, as all efforts to reconcile them failed. “The court has no choice than to dissolve the union in spite of the woman’s claim that she loves...

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