Nigeria: How Nigeria's Legal System Is Failing to Safeguard Widows' Rights

[IPS] Sokoto, Nigeria -- In February this year, Chichi Okonkwo not only lost her husband but was stripped of everything they owned together. Her husband was severely injured in a car accident about a month earlier. Despite being rushed to a hospital in Enugu, where they resided, he succumbed to his injuries weeks later. To compound her grief, Okonkwo's late husband's male siblings forcibly entered her home in the city a few hours after his passing, confiscating her husband's land documents, car, money, clothes, and marriage certif