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I am Arafat*, a 21-year-old lady, and this is my story. I am a 300 Level student, studying Architecture in one the prestigious universities in Nigeria. This happened to me while I was still a 200 Level student. My parents had just acquired this apartment in one of the suburb areas of Lagos state and we all moved in. This property was managed by the service apartment of the Estate. We were elated to be moving to a new neighborhood and...

My name Ulary, a 23-year-old lady, and this is my story. I am an orphan; I lost my parents when I was 8 years old. My dad’s sudden demise led to the death of my mom about three months later. My maternal grandma took me and my brother in and we lived with her house with my aunts, uncles and other relatives. It is not easy growing up in a non-conventional typical setting, my brother and I had no choice, and...

I am Miriam*, a 19-year-old lady, and this is my story. I am the only child of my mother and father. My mother left my father when I was about a year old because of domestic violence in which she almost lost her life and mine too. My mother never returned to her marriage despite pleadings from my father and his relatives because she had returned in time past and my father went back to abusing her physically, verbally and psychologically. Fortunately,...