Tell us a bit about your childhood

I like to think my childhood is my favourite part of my entire existence. I was an only child for 10 years and had all the attention to myself. I remember my dad traveling and returning with lots of toys and chocolates. My mum made the best yam porridge, and she made it whenever I wanted. She was a stay at home mum.  I remember the day she told me she was pregnant with my little sister. I was so excited, finally I’d have someone to play with. Little did I know I’d get more than I bargained for.

So, what happened?

Well, my mum had twins, a girl and a boy. Next thing I know, I was mum number 2. It wasn’t so bad though because we had two helpers at home at the time. Also, it was only for the holidays, as I got enrolled into a boarding school. Boarding school was amazing, I went to a private boarding school in Victoria Island. My dad also worked there so he dropped at my school quite often with gifts. I like to think that’s why my love language is receiving gifts. My dad loved to spoil me silly with gifts.

Daddy’s girl, so you grew up rich.

Yes, I don’t recall a time we ever had to struggle for money. My mum didn’t work but I remember she enjoyed hosting parties. She also used to buy a lot of clothes. I remember seeing different vendors in our house trying to sell to my mum. I think my dad started a new business at this time. We also started taking family vacations abroad during this period. Life was perfect! I didn’t think I’d ever have to worry about a thing, my daddy was always there to provide. Well, that was until everything changed.

What do you mean by life?

My dad died in a car accident in my second year in university. My mum took a while to adjust to our new reality. She sold some of my dad’s property and started a retail fabric business. She had a hard time managing the business. Soon we had only the house we lived in and one car left to our name. I’m still amazed at how fast our lives changed. I sometimes feel like my mum could have managed our funds better but how can I blame her; no one prepared for this.

My mum was adamant about retaining my siblings in their highbrow private school while I was in a private university. This meant we had very little to run the house after paying school fees. At some point, my allowance became irregular. So, I stopped asking.

How did you survive then?

I started selling Shawarma in school. 

Shawarma?! How did that start?

Shawarma wasn’t allowed in my school. However, I had my way of getting one for myself. If you went to my school, trust me you’d understand how big of a deal it was to get hold of anything that contained meat. People started asking me to get for the

m as well. So, I doubled the price. I’d buy the Shawarma at the price of N500 and sell it for N1000. Soon, word spread and I was making at least 30k a week. I did this till I was in my final year. I had to stop because I couldn’t risk being suspended at my final phase.

Wow! Talk about a Risk Taker. How’s life going now?

I interned at my late dad’s friend’s agency. This was where I picked up an interest in design. I started learning on my own, started with graphics design. During this period, my mum’s business started to fair pretty well so I was able to pay for Product Design classes.

Ahn Ahn! Tech sis in the building

*laughs* Don’t start o. I mean the journey has been good, I can’t lie. I now work with a startup fintech and I run a couple of side gigs once in a while.

I send money to my mum regularly and I started a poultry business with her supervision. I also have investments in stock and crypto. 

That’s really nice. How often do you miss your dad?

ALL THE TIME! I miss him so much. I never imagined life without him. I was pretty sure I was going to be a daddy’s girl for life but life has its way of surprising us. Sometimes I wish he saw the future and made a backup plan for us to fall back on.

Wow! There you have it, don't wait for life to happen. 

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