“Okay then, now that we’ve heard from both lawyers, I need to hear from the couple themselves.” Justice Onadipe, the presiding judge, said before she turned her eyes on Bernard, “Mr. Babalola?”

“Yes, my Lord,” Bernard answered.

“Your lawyer, when making your case, said that you are totally against any dissolution of marriage with your wife, and your wife, on the other hand, according to her lawyer, seemed adamant about getting a divorce.” She looked down at the file in front of her in the judge’s box as she said, “Though I can see clearly here that your union has just been a matter of months, your wife seemed to...