A Maiduguri, Borno State-based woman, Yakaka Yerima, has celebrated her adopted daughter after the child graduated from nursery school, six years after she took her in and breastfed her following the loss of her parents to insurgency.
Sharing the milestone in a Facebook post on Monday, Yakaka recounted that the girl’s father was killed in a terrorist attack before she was born, while her mother died during childbirth after surviving the attack.
According to her, the newborn was taken to an orphanage, but she could not stop thinking about the child’s fate.
“Six years ago, I made one of the biggest decisions of my life. I chose to adopt a baby girl who lost her father to insurgency before she was even born and lost her mother while she was coming into this world.
“She was taken to an
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