Financial Problem Is The Major Crises Causing Problem In Marital Life – Group

By Seyifunmi Odunuga

IBADAN – Ambassador Olamide Talabi, the President, Women In Shelter and Environment has identified poverty as the major cause of marriage crashes in Nigeria.

She made this declaration while addressing journalists in a courtesy visit to the Chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Comrade Ademola Babalola at the Union’s Secretarial in Ibadan on Monday, November 23, 2020.

Ambassador Talabi who doubled as African Commisioner at the Office of the Mayor in the city of Newark, United States of America (USA) added that the group is ready to provide shelter, psycho-social and financial support for thousands of women who have been abused by their husbands.

She continued, that the aim of the group is to establish shelter for women who have been abused or passing through hard times in thier marriages across the country.

Talabi who came along with other members of the group among who are a veteran journalist, Monica Taiwo, Mrs. Caroline Adeneye and Mrs. Nike Ajayi noted most marriages collapsed during to financial constraints of the couples to keep the family alive.

She said further that many women who have been victimized, abused or molested in their marriages will find solace in the centres which would have branches across the country.

Talabi said, “Sometimes when the man that is bringing money to the home is not bringing the money again, there will be frictions in the family. So we want to empower these women also whereby they can take care of themselves.

In her words, “We are going to have a shelter home for abused women. These are women that are going through a lot of domestic violence at home, these are women that cannot take care of themselves, mentally, psychologically and financially.

”The goal is to have them in the house, empower them, we have vocational training there, where they will learnt trade, we have tailoring, bead making, and so many things that they can learn and go back to the world. Just to empower them.

“Women can also support thier husbands, sometimes it is the financial problem that is causing marriage crashes.

“Financial problem is the major crises causing problem in marital life.”