I received a BSc in Political Science from Bayero University Kano in 2015. From 2014 to 2018, I taught English and Civic Education in a junior and senior secondary school in the very district where I was born and raised.
The pay was fourteen thousand naira (₦14,000)—based on the 2014/2015 naira-to-dollar exchange rate, that amount was less than $40 monthly—but I kept at it because, for me, it wasn't really a way of making a living. It was my way of giving back to the northern Nigerian community that nurtured me.
I taught, mentored, and also trained my students in public speaking for four years. In 2018, I quit my teaching job and moved to Lagos because I knew had found fulfillment in seeing all