Soft-spoken but extremely eloquent, there are many things that
make Aisha Buhari, wife of Nigeria’s new president thick. Blessed
with an infectious smile; many, often as a result of her warm
disposition, underrate the power that lies in her.
Though, only soaring in popularity in recent months especially in
the build up to the March 28 presidential elections where her
husband, Muhammadu, a retired military general and former Head
of State, coasted to an overwhelming victory, Aisha has always
been a known face especially among people who seek to pamper
their bodies. The First Lady, until recently, owned one of the
biggest spas and beauty institute in the country. 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.
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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. Many clients, who visited
the place and also came across her, attested to how simple and
impressive at customers’ relations she was.
But Aisha didn’t just venture into the business of pampering
people’s skin and bodies – she worked very hard to learn the
tricks of the business and how to succeed in it. A trained
esthetician who obtained a diploma in Beauty Therapy from the
Carlton Institute of Beauty Therapy, Windsor, United Kingdom and
a certificate course from the French Beauty School, Esthetique
Academie Dubai, she is a member of the United Kingdom’s
Vocational Training and Charitable Trust and the International
Health and Beauty Council.
In an interview she granted Thisday Style last year, the beautiful
Adamawa State-born mother of five said: “I’m a very busy person
who does her things quietly. I keep to my profession as an
esthetician, managing my spa and beauty institute both in Kaduna
and Abuja. I also personally perform some advanced facial
treatments like mesotherapy, gold facial and application of TCA
etc. I have a number of documentations on my experience in this
area including writing a book titled “The Essentials of Beauty
Therapy.”
Though, now saddled with the bigger responsibility of giving her
ageing husband the needed moral and emotional support required
to bring massive transformation in a country craving for change,
Aisha’s training and experience as a beauty expert could come to
bear in the colouration of things within her control in the coming
weeks. For neighbours close to the First Lady’s now closed beauty
institute, they would miss the atmosphere she brought to the area




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I think she is promoting unemployment for the closure of the business.

Can't she give it to someone else to manage or was it because her venture was a beneficiary of the skill acquisition scheme contracted by nnpc during the time her husband was chairman of ptf trust fund? Or is she covering her dirt?