A Nigerian man with 86 wives, Mohammadu Bello Abubakar, has been arrested by an Islamic court for refusing to divorce all but four of them

He was picked up in a pre-dawn raid on his house in Bida, Niger state and charged with insulting religious creed and unlawful marriages. A Sharia court judge denied him bail until another hearing on October 6, 2008. Bello Abubakar, an Islamic preacher, has more than 170 children.