Tolani Olaoye stares at the bundle of cash in her hand, the notes still warm from the payroll office at Gbagada General Hospital. It is N30,000. She flips it over again, as if intense scrutiny can make the money grow. But it won’t. For a moment, the 34-year-old single mother of two holds still, her expression a blend of exhaustion and despair. She has become accustomed to that feeling every month since joining the hospital’s cleaning unit eight months ago. “This is what will take me and my boys for another month. Before the month even sta
Tolani Olaoye stares at the bundle of cash in her hand, the notes still warm from the payroll office at Gbagada General Hospital. It is N30,000. She flips it over again, as if intense scrutiny can make the money grow. But it won’t. For a moment, the 34-year-old single mother of two holds still, her expression a blend of exhaustion and despair. She has become accustomed to that feeling every month since joining the hospital’s cleaning unit eight months ago. “This is what will take me and my boys for another month. Before the month even sta