My name is Muyibat, and I am 20 years old. This is my story. I live with my Aunt Aminat and her family in Lagos while my parents are retired in my village. I finished my secondary education in 2021, and I took a stopgap for a year to learn a skill. In 2022, while working as an apprentice at my boss’s shop, a man named Damilola approached me on my way to work. He persistently asked me to be his...
My name is Yonusimi, I am a 19-year-old lady, and this is my story. I live with my dad in our family house with my two elder siblings who recently moved out. My eldest sister Dolapo moved out to another state to start a new business, while my immediate senior sister Lola got married and moved in with her husband. My father is a doting father, but being a single father of three beautiful daughters after my mother’s demise has not been...
My name is Tolani, I am 22 years old lady, and this is my story. I moved to Lagos about three years ago after completing my Secondary School Education and I came to live with my maternal aunt Caroline who was married with a two-year-old daughter. She promised to sponsor my tertiary education and cater for all my needs until when I finished university and got a job. I have an elder brother who lives in the northern part of Nigeria,...
My name is Iywanger meaning “Truth pays” in Tv ethnic group in Nigeria. I am a 23-year-old lady, and this is my story. I live with my parents and nanny; I am an only child, and we live in Lagos. I went downstairs to charge my phone at a general point after power outage, we usually have a place in my block of apartments where anyone can take their appliances to charge at a general point. I met one of the young...
My name is Ella. I’m 24 years old lady, and this is my story. My mother is a widow with two children, I have an older brother who is married and lives with his family in the Northern part of Nigeria. My mother has been responsible for our upbringing since the demise of my father with the assistance of my uncle from when I was a toddler until I completed my secondary education. After I finished my WAEC and JAMB, my...
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,...
I am Irawagbon*, a 20-year-old lady, and this is my story. My parents have six children of whom I am the third child of six. My father, an uneducated poultry farmer who did not get the privilege of being educated insisted that all his children attend school up to the secondary level, and write their WAEC, after which, each one would decide if he or she wanted to go the university or take up a vocation. After I finished my secondary...
My name is Temitope. I’m 23 years old lady, and this is my story. This abuse began when I was 14 years old while I was still in Senior Secondary School One. My mother had recently gotten a new job as a logistics manager and she had to move to the Island part of Lagos while my dad and I remained in our house in the mainland. My parents built the house while I was still a toddler and we have...
