Encounters

Encounters

‘I wrote SSCE with foot, bagged 7 credits, but still beg for alms’

Daily Trust: How did you become physically-challenged?  Ahmadu Yakubu: I was born with it. My parents tried their best to look for medication, bu

Sokoto’s lady barber cuts out unique path

As a child, Grace Ishaya Rewa developed a strong passion for barbing after watching severally as her cousins and siblings’ hairs were being scra

‘I began work prepared for bullying by male colleagues’

Many youths, especially ladies, would never think of doing the greasy work of servicing cars, changing engine oil, tyres, wheel alignment or balancing

Meet grandma who established first ‘Mammy Market’

Daily Trust: How did you get the name ‘Mammy’? Mrs. Mammy Marian Ochefu: According to the story told by my father who was a steward to a w

Meet graduate who sells ‘shayi’

Daily Trust: What prompted you to start tea business? Aliyu Ahmed Kabir:  First of all, my father had been in this business for a very long time,