[CELEBRITY GIST] Formal Miss Nigeria, Miss Helen Ajayi Favoured By Court In Lagos By Giving Her 50% Of Her Late Husband Property

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Helen Prest Ajayi.

Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has declared that a formal miss Nigeria, Helen Prest-Ajayi, is entitled to 50 percent of the net assest of her late husband, Dr Tisin Ajayi..

Justice Tijjani Ringin gave the ruling on Tuesday in a suit by Miss Tomisin Ajayi and Mrs Helen Prest-Ajayi as the first and second applicants, which was filled through their counsel, Mr Abiodun Owonikoko (SAN).

The first to four respondent in the suit are the first foundation Medical EngeneriEng Company Limited; Registrar-General of the corporate Affairs Commission; Mrs Oluwayemisi Ajayi; and Mr Patrick Abak, a lawyer.

The first foundation Medical Engineering Company Limited is owned by late Dr Tosin Ajayi.

The Judge granted the 13 relief sought by the applicant following the respondents failure to controvert them.

They include that Prest Ajayi is "entitled to 60 prr cent (or so much as the court may sanction upon audit and valuation ( constituting the net assests of the form, after satisfying all just taxes and debts as family and investment partner of Dr Tosin Ajayi from 1996 till 26 April, 2020 to the exclusion of Mrs Oluwayemisi Ajayi, among others.

Despite the service of processes filed in the respondents and affidavits of service duly filled in court, the respondents failed to use the opportunity afforded to them by law to controvert the averment of the plaintiff in the affidavits.

However, it is a settled law that evidence not controverted is deemed admitted. All the reliefs sought in this application are hereby granted as prayed.

According to the application, Dr Ajayi was a renowned medical doctor, businessman and Philanthropist before his demise on April 26,2020.

He was married to Oluwayemisi and they had children but separated for 35 years before his demise.

In the course of the separation, he married formal miss Nigeria, Helen Prest-Ajayi and they had a child who lived with Dr Prest-Ajayi until his death.