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Final year medical student becomes food vendor Due ASUU strike employs Ten persons



Usman Abubakar-Rimi a Medicine and Surgery final year student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, has turned to street food vendor due to the prolong strike action by ASUU

During an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday, the medical student said he conceived the initiative in order to engage in productive living as the strike forced students to become redundant.

Abubakar-Rimi, who owned a food outlet and Indomie joint in the Diplomat area in Sokoto metropolis explained that the ongoing extended strike embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities gave him the full opportunity.

He explained that he ventured into full-scale food selling in the last two months and described the business as lucrative.

He said ''I hired a shop, employing eight people manning tea and Indomie joints, selling bottled and canned drinks, masa, rice and beans, pepper soup and meat along with the Point of Sale business.

A plate of food sells from N200 and above depending on the needs of the customer.

''I am always happy to see that I become an employer of labour – as at present I engage 10 persons in the two shops.

''I rely on the shops for handsome incomes, because I don’t ask my parents for any money in spite of the fact that schools are closed.

''However, I utilised the opportunity of COVID-19 lockdown, during the pandemic, and started an egg and chicken distribution business where I had made contacts with restaurants for the supply.

''I also obtained the eggs and chickens from large scale farms from small amounts to higher quantity suppliers, from the proceeds I started the two businesses.

''I designed a sustainability plan where registers were opened for maximum record keeping, supply chain and other management procedures.

''With the lucrative opportunities provided by the businesses, I envisage to continue with the ventures even after my graduation.

''When I become a Medical Doctor, I envisage to engage in work that will not be too time consuming because at present, I have begun to lose hope on a salary earning job.

''I want to establish a Pharmacy, work in a private hospital as well as engage in private-initiated businesses relevant to my profession.

He advised students to utilise their free time to engage in businesses, stressing that the present online services provided a lot of opportunities to leverage on.

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