“Every morning, I pray to God that I won’t give birth at the hospital, because I won’t be able to pay the hospital bill,” says Terguhe Akpaku as she wipes mucus from the nose of one of her twin children.
Mrs Akpaku is pregnant with her ninth child. Normally, by this time, she would either be working on her cassava farm in Tse-Vinde, a community in Ukum, Benue State, with her fingers deep in the red earth, or transporting her produce to the market in Zaki-Biam to sell. But…
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