Nigerian gospel singer’s death puts divorce beliefs in spotlight

On most Sunday mornings, the searing voice of Osinachi Nwachukwu, one of Nigeria’s best-known gospel singers, filled the vast 100,000-seat auditorium of her church in Abuja.

Her four children told Nigerian authorities that Nwachukwu had suffered constant violence at the hands of their father, who they said had sworn them to secrecy. People who knew the couple cast Peter Nwachukwu as a dominating figure, controlling her finances and decisions. In media interviews and social media posts, relatives and friends have said they pleaded with Nwachukwu to leave her husband, but she resisted, believing it to be a sin and insisting that he would change. “She felt that God is against divorce,” her sister Favour Made, told local media last month. “We told her that separation is not a sin but just for her to stay alive.”

Pee accused Peter Nwachukwu of being an aggressive and violent figure. “The last time I spoke to Mr Nwachukwu was in March last year and I told him: ‘One day you’re going to kill this woman. You’re going to kill her if you keep going on like this,” Pee said.People who knew the church’s leadership said senior figures had been warned not to talk to the media, amid increased attention on the church’s teaching on divorce and what, if anything, figures from the church knew about the alleged abuse.

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