Author: Senator Babafemi Ojudu

IN Yoruba when a man is tough , unbending and courageous we refer to him as ‘okunrin meta’, that is , three men  in one. Maryam is three men, and three women in one. She is a tough cookie with the agility and steely resolve of three men and the compassion and tender love of three women. Hajiya, as most of us, her colleagues call her, took her job as if her life depended on it. Here is a woman who needed not to  have worked; who could have lived a good life as housewife tending to the needs of…