Photos: Meet a Nigerian man who wears suit to hawk tiger nut from a wheelbarrow
BBC Hausa correspondent Yakubu Liman
met Isa Kebbi (left), who sells tiger nuts from a wheel barrow at a market in
Abuja. The Best Dressed Tiger Nuts Seller In Nigeria Isa is from Kebbi state
and hawks his wares in a wheelbarrow in Wuse Market Abuja, but he doesn't allow
his trade dictate his fashion sense he goes around looking sharp and giving
bankers a run for their money. (more after the cut)
According to Kebbi, he buys a sack of tiger
nuts on credit every month and if he make a lot of sales,
he makes a profit of around $19 (£13).
He is not the first food seller seen
wearing a suit to sell his goods. In 2015, BBC published a photo of Daniel
Nartey (right) who wears suits to hawk fruits in Accra, Ghana. He told the
correspondent that he started wearing suit to sell watermelon after he was told
by his pastor to dress well no matter the job you do.
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