Abba Gana v. Abba Gana

Bell, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of divorce and several post-judgment motions challenging, inter alia, service of process.

Both parties are Nigerian citizens. In 1971 they were married in a Nigerian Muslim ceremony. Appellant Shettima Abba Gana is a soldier, pilot, an employee of the Nigerian government, and in 1975 he and appellee Catherine Abba Gana came to the United States on non-immigrant visas so that he could undergo training at Fort Benning. They moved to Columbus in October 1977 and remarried in a civil ceremony on October 23,1979. On February 5,1982 Catherine filed a…