If someone had told Yakubu Liman that he would become a celebrity just by introducing a kind of style and panache into his trade, he would not have believed.
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But the young man who is not ashamed of selling Tiger Nuts (Aya), while well dressed in a suit, has become a star as a BBC photograph found him worthy of a spot on their website and took a snapshot of Liman while pushing his wheelbarrow in the streets of Abuja, Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory.
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Yakubu Liman shows there is dignity in hard work
(BBC)
Yakubu Liman shows there is dignity in hard work
Photo Credit: BBC
Liman told the BBC that he buys a sack of the nuts on credit every month and if he makes a lot of sales, he makes a profit of around N5,700.
Truly, there is dignity in labour.
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