When Ngozi Ezeja, 34, lost her husband in an appalling car crash in 2016, barely three weeks after giving birth to their daughter, she was distraught. “My little girl and social media were the only things that kept me sane at that time,” she said.
While in mourning, Ezeja accepted an invitation to join a women-only Facebook group called Abuja Moms. Hoping for some distraction from her loneliness and some solace in her grief, the young widow ended up getting much more.
“In 2017, my little girl was sick and I had no cash in the house. I was frantically dabbing her body with water throughout the day and praying to God to help me, because I honestly didn’t know what to do. I was pacing about, thinking who to call to ask for help, when I remembered Abuja Moms,” she told openDemocracy.
