Priced out: In Nigeria, adolescent girls resort to rags, tissue paper for periods as high cost of sanitary pads persists, by UCHE AKOLISA, BrandAfric
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14 -year Omolara Olayokun, an SS1 student of a public secondary school in Agege, a low-income suburb in Lagos, had her menarche two years ago at 12. The teenage girl who lives with her grandmother…
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