“I couldn’t understand all that was happening. I had to sleep in a police station that night. I couldn’t attend my husband’s burial. I headed back to Lagos the next day,” Dick said.
Returning to Lagos, the newly widowed woman discovered that without notice, her landlord had evicted her from their apartment. She had no support system in Lagos and was soon penniless, seeking refuge in incomplete and derelict buildings and struggling to make ends meet. To make matters worse, she was pregnant. She gave birth to her baby in the most dire conditions. Out of nowhere, she was offered a lifeline.
