How do Hausa businessmen even make their profit, especially those that own provision stores?
I went to buy groceries from this man’s shop, got everything I needed, and he was so friendly we even gisted a lot.
I then saw a pack of 5Alive and asked for the price. When he told me, I said he shouldn’t bother, I’d get it another time.
This man insisted I take it, wrote his account number on a piece of paper, and told me to pay whenever I was ready without collecting my number or giving me his own.
He doesn’t even know me from Adam.
Honestly, only a Hausa man can do this.
and that I had already agreed. I was shocked. I told my mum that I had never had a conversation with him before; I only greeted him in school and passed.
For context, he had already left his first marriage (the one with my mum’s friend), married another woman, and that marriage also failed.
My mum went back to the living room, blasted him thoroughly, insulted him, and sent him out of the house. That was the last time we ever heard from him.
Another ₦3k story
So my mum had a female friend whose husband was younger than her. I remember when I was still a child, we used to visit their house. Years later, we surprisingly met again in school. At the time, I was in 400 level, while the man who was already in his late 40s or early 50s was in 100 level.
After seeing that I was now grown, he collected my number. I assumed it was simply because he wanted to greet my mum. Months passed; whenever we met in school, I would greet him and move on.
One day, he came to our house to greet my mum. She called me to come and say hello since I had told her that I met him in school. He gave me ₦3,000, I thanked him, and went back to my room.
A few minutes later, my mum came in and told me that the man said he wanted to marry me
I travelled home for Christmas (Kaduna).
One of my mum’s old friends that has known me since primary school visited and gave me ₦3k.
Said “Merry Christmas.”
At my big age.
Me wey dey use iPhone 16 😭