Friends advised her to bottle up the energy she felt with her boy battery and bring it back to her marriage, and in a way, she did: “If I’m in a better mood, then I can bring that home.” ...

A mother of five, Adenike Alabi, has told a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan to end her 25-year-old union with her husband, Lukman Alabi, on the grounds of infidelity and frequent battery.