By Peter Uwumarogie
Mrs Kate Usman, an eatery operator in Gombe State who educated 20 youths in Masa commerce, has urged ladies and youths to embrace small companies to change into financially unbiased.
She mentioned this in an interview with the Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) in Gombe on Tuesday.
Masa, also called Waina or rice cake, is a well-liked conventional delicacy from Northern Nigeria, significantly among the many Hausa folks. It consists of fluffy, barely tangy, golden-brown fermented rice desserts, usually loved as a snack, breakfast meal, or a most important dish with numerous accompaniments.
Usman mentioned enterprise remained top-of-the-line means to flee poverty if embraced with self-discipline and perseverance.
She mentioned that she had constructed a home and empowered over 20 youths, who additionally graduated from tertiary establishments from the proceeds of promoting the snack close to Orji Property in Gombe metropolis.
Usman mentioned the commerce availed her the chance to fulfill her family wants and change into financially unbiased.
“With the proceeds of promoting Masa, I constructed my very own home in Gombe State, though it took me seven years to finish.
“I’ve been in a position to practice numerous youths and my siblings who’ve established themselves and are doing nicely.
“A few of them are graduates and undergraduates who’re doing the enterprise and utilizing proceeds of the enterprise to fund their schooling and meet college calls for,’’ she mentioned.
Usman recalled that she started the commerce with a half measure of rice some 15 years in the past and have become profitable with perseverance and monetary self-discipline.
Whereas advising the youths to benefit from the commerce to enhance their social and financial standing, Usman urged governments in any respect ranges to take a position extra in youth empowerment programmes. (NAN)(www.nannews.ng)
Edited by Rabiu Sani-Ali
