Encounters

Encounters

‘British carnival organisers should learn from Calabar Carnival’

You have high regards for the Calabar Carnival, even comparing it to the more famous Notting Hill carnival in the UK. Can you please tell us more? Sac

Meet banker who quit to become hairstylist

Forty six-year-old Bruno Oahina rose to become an assistant manager in a bank, but left his banking career to set up a unisex beauty salon. In this in

‘I’ve been repairing bicycles for 45 years’

There is a popular saying that a leader without a successor is a failure. For Osita Nnagbo, a 70-year-old bicycle repairer in Umunneoke Village Awka,

Born without hands, Murjanatu still smiles at life

How do you cope with life despite your physical challenges? (Smiling) I do almost everything a woman does at home, despite having no hands. I bathe my

Meet Sokoto merchant who trades in wild animals

Rabilu Haruna of Sabon Birni local government area of Sokoto State has been plying an unusual trade, supplying wild and domestic animals to select cus