Police wives advised to engage in ventures to support families

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The wife of the Inspector General of Police (IG) and National President of Police Officers Wives’ Association (POWA), Hajia Alkali Baba, has counselled wives of fallen police officers and those still serving to engage in meaningful ventures that would make them resourceful and supportive of their families.

She encouraged them to acquire skills to be useful to themselves and their families, tasking the women to improve their overall wellbeing through constant exercise and good hygiene for good health, and to stay out of gossips and other unwholesome activities.

She gave the advice at the Officers Mess in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, at the weekend on the occasion of empowerment of wives and widows of policemen.

Baba praised her husband for supporting her to revive POWA nationwide, saying: “When I came on board, there was no POWA nationally and the gentleman, my husband, the 21st indigenous Inspector General of the Nigerian Police, I call him my world, brought back POWA and rebuilt it…