A 25-year-old housewife, Ruqayya Mukhtar, told a Shari’a court sitting at Rigasa, Kaduna State, that her husband has not slept with her for two years.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the complainant, who prayed to the court to dissolve her marriage to one Naziru Hamza, also complained that her husband assaulted and insulted her.

In his defence, the defendant denied all the allegations, saying he tried his best to satisfy his wife sexually.

I sometimes come home late and tired after going out to seek our daily bread, but my wife doesn’t understand. She is always demanding intimacy.

“I oblige often and sometimes beg her to be patient until the following morning. I don’t beat her,” he told the court.

The judge, Malam Anass Khalifa, asked the complainant if she had witnesses, and she said yes.

He thus adjourned the case and asked the complainant to present her witnesses.