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  By Edoamaowo Udeme, ABUJA He lives abroad but controls her with video calls, if she doesn't pick calls on time; he may ignore her call for weeks, sometimes months. He has 6 children from 5 women. This is the story by Mrs. Adewunmi Sola Badejo. Here it goes:   THE STORY “My Name is Adewunmi Sola Badejo;   I am 33 year old,   My Husband is Adekanhemi Badejo; he is 50 years old. “Before I got married to him, I was working during my NYSC.   “Aside my Place of Primary Assignment, I was the personal makeup artist for the former Kogi State governor's wife (Hajia Wada) and also a standby Makeup artist at studio 24, Lokoja. I was doing fine. “After marriage to him, I relocated to Lagos State and he stopped me from my makeup work saying it's for prostitutes. He also stopped me from looking for work with my academic qualifications. I have gone through a lot of physical and emotional trauma in this marriage. Not only division between me and my family, ...

The Akwa Ibom State Command Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Odiko Macdon, does not agree with a human rights activist, Saviour Akpan Esq., that there is no longer confidentiality in police investigation. On Friday 28 th May 2021, Macdon called in during Akpan’s Human Rights and You radio programme of the Passion 94.5 FM Uyo monitored by our correspondence, saying the Police Force has so much evolved in the contemporary times, with officers handling cases with utmost confidentiality and high level of professionalism. Although the PPRO did not rule out total absence of certain policemen who might have been divulging information for pecuniary interests, he was of opinion that unscrupulous elements are found in every system even amongst the human rights activists and the lawyers. “I don’t say there are no unscrupulous elements in the police. They are in every system: they are amongst the lawyers, and even found among the human rights people. And there are very good one...

  The people of Ibeno local government area have joined the fray to challenge the agitation of Oron nation over the location of the deep seaport project. Ibeno people recently came heavy on their neigbours following claim in a petition by Oron Union to the state governor, which has it that the government is relocating the Deep Seaport from Ibaka Bay to where they described as an artificial ocean created on land, speculating against digging out an artificial ocean (1km 2 ) out of land anywhere near Oron nation and dumping the sand near Oron land and water territory. But in their reaction in a letter by the paramount ruler, HRM Owong (Dr.) Effiong Archianga (jp) and six others, addressed to the Minister of the Transport as well as Akwa Ibom State Governor and the Chairperson of the State Technical Committee On   Ibom Deep Seaport and Industrial City, Ibeno people said that the choice of Ibeno for the purpose of locating the Deep Seaport was borne out of expert studies and ...