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She loved him.
She trusted him with her future.
Then one discovery changed everything.

In 1953, Ada Esther Johnson became one of the most talked-about women in colonial Nigeria. She was condemned for killing her British lover, imprisoned for 3,028 days, and later pardoned as an entire nation watched her story unfold.

But was she simply a criminal… or a woman pushed beyond endurance?

This is the story Nigeria never forgot.