The sad story of Ochanya Ogbanje and what led to her death has resurfaced online seven years later, and now Nigerians are calling for justice and pushing for a reopening of the case. 13-year-old Ochanya, a junior secondary student of the Federal Government College, Gboko, Benue State, reportedly died on October 17, 2018, after months of illness attributed to vesicovaginal...
A vesicovaginal fistula is an abnormal opening between the urinary bladder and the vagina that results in urine leaking out uncontrollably through the vagina. Many girls aged 11-15 in Nigeria become mothers either after early marriage to older men or through accidental pregnancy as a result of sexual intercourse with peers. Their small pelvis sizes cause most of these...