A 13-year marriage has been dissolved by an Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in the Eket Local Government Area, following allegations that the 36-year-old wife slept with a pastor of one of the state's new generational churches.
The husband is also a pastor, according to reports.
Justice Pius Idiong, the presiding judge who dissolved the marriage, voiced concern about the increased number of divorce and separation cases as a result of some churches' and pastors' activities.
"It is a huge grief that the church and its ministers, who are supposed to be agents and apostles of family sustainability," Idiong added, "are the predecessors and catalysts of today's shattered marriages and families."
The fact that the claimed man of God was alleged to have given the pastor's wife some substance to administer to her husband, according to the court, was even more concerning, prompting the 42-year-old husband to seek dissolution of the marriage.
"The pair can no longer live together in an era where domestic abuse is at an all-time high, culminating in married couples taking their own lives," Idiong added.
"It is preferable for the pair to live apart than for one of them to die as a result of marital discord."
"The petitioner and respondent's marriage, which took place on November 28, 2009, in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Uyo, under the supervision of the marriage registrar, is dissolved forthwith."
The court also handed their father custody of the couple's two children, aged eight and ten, "subject to the condition that their mother not be denied access to her children."