By Evelyn Usman
In an apartment somewhere in Obanleku Community, Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State, a painful silence has settled over a home once filled with the laughter of a 13-year-old girl.
No one hurries out of the house anymore in her school uniform, eager to catch up with classmates. No youthful voice breaks the morning calm. No teenage laughter echoes through the compound.
Nancy Peter is gone!
At just 13, she had barely begun the journey of life. She would never complete secondary school. She would never sit for WAEC. She would never fall in love, become a mother, build a career, or fulfil whatever dreams she secretly nurtured in her young heart.












