More Unemployment: First Lady Aisha Buhari Closes Down Exquisite Beauty Parlor in Kaduna

According to reports, Nigeria's First Lady, Aisha Buhari, has closed down her exquisite beauty parlor in Kaduna following her husband's victory at the presidential polls.

The First Lady, until recently, owned one of the biggest spas and beauty institute in the country which was situated along Camp Road, a high brow area of Ungwan-Rimi Government Residential Area in Kaduna State.

Hanzy Spa and Hanzy Beauty Institute was always a beehive of activities all week long.

It is the first beauty institute in Northern Nigeria and is a National Board of Technical Education accredited vocational training centre and registered by the Ministry of Education with the aim of exploring the untapped wealth in the emerging beauty industry.

However, since the victory of her husband in late March before his swearing-in in Abuja, the nation’s capital, on Friday, Aisha has since closed down the beauty parlour to take up the new role of Nigeria’s First Lady.

The spa and beauty institute patronised by individuals across class, was sighted close to the private residence of the immediate past Vice President, Namadi Sambo. The institute was consulted by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation/Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company to help train individuals under its Youth Empowerment and Skill Acquisition Programme.

But as popular and strategically-placed as the spa and beauty institute was, not many knew Aisha was the brains behind it. Like her more popular husband who is famed for shying away from limelight and prefers to stay at the background most of the time, she operated the business only as a professional and not as wife of a former Head of State at the time.

So instead of adding to the already biting unemployment level, wouldn't she have done better by hiring a manger?

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