Nigerian Woman Ordered to Pay Billionaire Ex Husband £100k Because Their Wedding Ceremony was Invalid

A Nigerian woman, Mercy Ogbedo who married a shipping magnate Moses Taiga in an elaborate ceremony in Nigeria, where her feet were washed by village elders and a dowry was paid for her as a ‘bride price’, has been told by a British court that her wedding invalid.

Mrs Ogbedo, who had given birth to twin for the man, has spent a decade pursuing him for financial support through the British courts – only to be ordered by the court, to pay 80 per cent of Mr Taiga’s legal costs for a series of complex court hearings, leaving her with an estimated £100,000 bill for lawyers’ fees.
The pair ‘married’ in 2002 and had twins, but Mrs Ogbedo discovered soon afterwards that Mr Taiga had already married a woman in Benin, West Africa, but the court heard that having more than one wife is allowed under Nigerian law. Therefore according to the Judge ‘there was no marriage on which English law could bite’.
Sometimes, the law can be so unfair – But since she wasn’t married under the British law, so the judge didn’t see as valid her wedding in Nigeria – such a loss, don’t you think???