Nigeria: 'I was tortured and lost my hand' - one student's struggle to get an education in Nigeria

The BBC speaks to a student who pushed for his toe print to be taken to verify his identity.

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By the time a neighbour alerted police and he was taken to hospital, the damage was irreversible.

"The herbalist brought charcoal, put something on my hands, tied my hands [along] with my leg, put pepper there inside the charcoal, then cover[ed] me with a bedsheet," recalls Friday, now aged 19.

Doctors were forced to sedate him and operate on him. Friday woke up to find his left hand amputated, while the fingers on his right hand were either amputated or permanently scarred.

"I cried and I cried," Friday tells the BBC.