{"id":1267613,"date":"2022-12-19T19:15:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T19:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/19\/hhigh-court-formerly-grants-paul-okoye-and-his-wife-divorce\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T19:15:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T19:15:16","slug":"hhigh-court-formerly-grants-paul-okoye-and-his-wife-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/19\/hhigh-court-formerly-grants-paul-okoye-and-his-wife-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"HHigh Court Formerly Grants Paul Okoye And His Wife Divorce \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Abuja High Court sitting in Maitama has formerly granted Anita Okoye and\u00a0Paul Okoye divorce.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that in August 2021,\u00a0Anita Okoye filed for divorce after 8 years of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Anita Okoye cited five major reasons for her decision to divorce her husband: \u201ccheating, a claimed separation, being an absent parent, fraud, and difficult experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>She, therefore, requested a settlement of $20,000 monthly as well as a number of\u00a0 Paul\u2019 houses.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on, in her divorce petition signed by her lawyer, Ojonimi Akpe and Okutepa J.S, Anita had\u00a0claimed that she contributed N10 million as an agreement with Paul that she would be granted space at the mall he had just completed in Lekki Phase 1, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>However, she accused Paul Okoye of cheating her out of the\u00a0deal.<\/p>\n<p>The petition reads in part, \u201cThat I know as a fact that the Petitioner founded a company called TannkCo in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat the Petitioner and the Respondent agreed to build a mall where TannkCo would have its main offices, and the Petitioner contributed N10,000,000.00 (Ten Million Naira) for the purchase of the land and the building of the mall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat I know as a fact that the Respondent, upon completion of the mall, reneged on the agreement and failed to give TannkCo a space in the mall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0Anita, who participated in court sessions via Zoom because she now lives in the US,\u00a0\u00a0was unable to prove all of the claims in her petition to the court.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, she decided to withdraw\u00a0all her claims and opted to\u00a0settle.<\/p>\n<p>The court, in its judgment, only granted\u00a0joint custody of the children to the parties in the ruling on the case on October 20, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioner (Anita) was, however, not given any money in the form of alimony or settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Paul has moved on to a younger woman, while Anita is in the US with their 3 kids.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Abuja High Court sitting in Maitama has formerly granted Anita Okoye and\u00a0Paul Okoye divorce. Recall that in August 2021,\u00a0Anita Okoye filed for divorce after 8 years of marriage. Anita Okoye cited five major reasons for her decision to divorce her husband: \u201ccheating, a claimed separation, being an absent parent, fraud, and difficult experiences.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1267614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,9134,3256,29908,3985,3014,54],"class_list":["post-1267613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-court","tag-divorce","tag-grants","tag-hhigh","tag-okoye","tag-paul","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}