Marriage Crisis? Lawyer Shares Daily Cause List Showing 9 Divorce Cases Out Of 13

A Nigerian lawyer, Samuel Onyinye Ola, has voiced deep concern over the rising number of divorce cases in the country.

She raised the alarm after sharing the cause list from the High Court sitting on Monday, June 23, 2025. Out of the 13 cases scheduled for that day, nine were divorce-related.

A cause list is a document that details the cases scheduled to be heard by a court on a particular day or period.

“Out of 13 cases, 9 are divorces. I honestly have nothing to say,” she wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday. “These are people who never told us when or why they began, but now want us to witness and judge how it ends.”

She added, “These days, almost every case in court is about divorce. It’s troubling — but again, I have nothing more to say.”