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misterh: What is haram is obvious and what is halal is obvious. Situations like this have been dealt with in Islam. It's shirk for one to believe in ghosts (i even saw a pix of those 'muslims' bowing down in worship to the pix). This is outright shirk. What i notice about those people is ignorance. They are ready to swallow what their religious leaders say hook, line and sinker. Knowledge is key.

Paschal007: I dunno the point you're trying to make here. The first question they asked him was if he married a 13yr old and he answered affirmative.

If you didn't watch the other video how am I to know you watched this one you posted. Again what's your point?

Paschal007: who told you he didn't marry the underage Egyptian girl? I'm sure you didn't even watch the video.

Whiskeyboiler: of them all the Lawyer( Islamic scholar) was most intelligent and focused in his argument. He was not swayed by sentiments. Stella it was obvious, was a bit confused and sentimental . Though she has an arguable point that bothered on the danger of child marriage, she allowed her disdain for Yerima overcome her. Yerima was matured by refusing to be provoked by Stella even though her hardly did justice to the topic. It was obvious that the Senator uses religion to cover up his immoral attitude. As for the Lagos "Prof" he was just a side show. One found it difficult to believe he is actually a professor. Not even an ordinary member of the road transport workers union will argue the way he did. He was pointless and totally clueless. An utter disgrace to whatever he represents. Who invited him to the debate in the first place?

tanimola22: I swear, I had never heard it until now.

Ufeolorun: If she's got that surname combination,she's likely to be from Owo royal family,90% likelihood.

stressing that the NFF is currently owed the national team coaches backlog of salaries, as well as some workers of the Federation.

Gboliwe: Lol. Men of little faith.

Reminds me of an incident sometime ago. I was travelling to Umuahia from Awka. We were just about leaving when one man shouted from behind 'noooo! It can't happen! Blood of Jesus! and things like that. The next thing he did was to tell us he is seeing blood on the way. Lol. Come and see people diembarking and asking for refund. I said a short prayer and didnt get any negative feedback. The driver insisted on travelling, the transport coy refused refunding their money or changing the bus. We were only 4 that went with the driver to Umuahia and it was one smooth ride

nitrogen: Lastly, can a degree holder do this #just a question#

. . .it was even more interesting that his customers, many of them ladies and some of them with fancy cars, were ready to wait for the moin moin to be ready.

It was a chance encounter, but last week, Saturday Tribune’s KATE ANI discovered on a street around the Fodacis area, along Adeoyo Road in Ibadan, a young man of about 27 years cooking moin moin (a local delicacy made from beans) beside the road, wearing a green chef attire, sweating while moulding the moin moin into leaves and arranging the wraps in a huge pot balanced on a tripod, preparatory to cooking.

Apart from seeing a vibrant young man enthusiastically doing a ‘woman’s job’ – and that beside the road , it was even more interesting that his customers, many of them ladies and some of them with fancy cars, were ready to wait for the moin moin to be ready.

She stepped aside for a closer look and, as it turned out, a chat with this handsome young man, who constantly dished out jokes to his customers while they waited.

Reporter: Mo fe’ra moin moin (I want to buy moin moin).

He looked up, smiled, displaying a white set of teeth, and replied in impeccable English).

Moi moi seller: Good morning ma’am, moin moin is not yet ready. If you can please come back in the next 15 minutes, you will surely get your money’s worth,” he replied as he peeled off some egg shells.

Reporter: No problem, I’ll wait.

He caught the reporter staring at him, in amazement).

Moin moin seller: It’s like you want to laugh? It’s okay for you to laugh; people always give me that kind of attitude, looking at my moin moin chef uniform and the strangeness of a man selling moin moin, a woman’s job.

Reporter: Well, I’m sorry; I couldn’t help it (laughing heartily). But what led you to this?

Of course, he could not immediately tell his story, having to attend to his customers; but he did give an appointment for another day.

“It’s a long story,” he said when Saturday Tribune eventually met him.

“I was three years old when my father abandoned me, my mother and younger sister and travelled to the United Kingdom in search of greener pastures. Ever since then till today, we have not heard from him.”

Olanrewaju Adeyemi, an Oyo State indigene and an Ordinary National Diploma (OND) graduate of Computer Science, The Polytechnic, Ibadan, said he he had to jettison his plan to acquire a Higher National Diploma (HND) due to lack of funds. He said he was frustrated because he could not get a good job to take care of his mother, a petty trader, and little sister, a student of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye.

“I worked with so many organisations but they owed me. I have also done some menial jobs like bricklaying. One day, in frustration, I locked myself up in my room and prayed to God for a revelation. To my astonishment, I kept hearing moin moin. I went to my pastor, and he encouraged me to continue praying, as he was equally surprised.

“I went back and prayed again and heard the same words: moin moin. When I told my pastor again, he dipped his hands into his pocket and gave me N5000. I started this business January last year, during the fuel price hike crisis.

“The reason I have not been able to achieve much in this business is because I also support my mum with her petty trading business from the little profit I make, because she later remarried but life hasn’t been fair to her. I also save up for my little sister’s university education.

“Although I have extended families that are financially okay, for reasons known to them, they have refused to help.”

Olanrewaju told Saturday Tribune that his friends were initially ashamed to associate with him due to what he does for a living. He said it was not easy for him as well to get used to it, but he persisted.

“When I first started, I was so conscious of my environment because of the kind of friends I kept – they happen to be kind of ‘exposed’; and the first day they saw me doing this, they exclaimed and asked if I was out of my mind. For the first two weeks of starting, I felt ashamed of myself and the business. There were lots of discouragement but I took it as a job,” he said.

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Speaking about the challenges he faces, Olanrewaju said he constantly takes ill because of the pressure of the job.

“Every day I must wake by 5am, prepare the wood, and cook the moin moin. It has not been easy. There was a time I employed a helper but she left due to the stress of the work and couldn’t cope with it.


Asked how much he makes daily, he said, “It varies. Sometimes I make N5000, and sometimes it could be N4000. Sometimes I gain up to N30,000 as profit in a month.

“I intend to still go back to school soon. It pains me a lot when I look at my purse and the money I have is not enough to finance it. I don’t want to go back to school and still drop out again.”

But how does he manage to attract so many customers who are prepared to wait for his moin moin to be ready?

He said, “Actually, it’s my personality that attracts them. Being a man and doing this kind of business intrigues them. Also, my chef attire attracts them the more. In fact, a customer once came in his Jeep and gave me N2000 because of my chef attire and how neat and coordinated I was. The spot I was using at Challenge (area) before relocating here, some of my customers over there still come down here to patronise me, not minding the distance.

“Each time I go out to hawk moin moin at Aleshinloye market (because as soon as it is 11am, I hawk the remaining one at the market), I always put on suit and tie. I have a slogan too; I would say E fi ole tu eko wo (meaning, in Yoruba ‘taste the sweetness of my moin moin with eko (a Yoruba meal made from corn). People stare at me; they find it strange to see someone dressed in suit hawking moin moin. That draws customers to me.

“A guy actually walked up to me one day and said ‘Are you serious? See the way you are dressed and you are hawking moin moin’. Sometimes they don’t even believe until I open the cooler of moin moin to show them. Some hesitate to buy it because they think it might be expensive, but they will eventually find out how cheap it is when I tell them it is between N30 and N50. In surprise, some end up asking me why I am doing the business. That is what I face almost every day, but they buy it.

“I have been able to build my customer base in Aleshinloye. Everybody knows me at that market: from the beginning to the end of the market. Anytime I go late, they would call my mobile phone asking me not to kill them with hunger (laughs). And it might surprise you that there are other six women in that market also selling moin moin.

“I enjoy what I do, and even if my luck should shine tomorrow and I get another job offer, I will still be doing this moin moin business, but of course, in a more ‘corporate’ way.”

Olanrewaju also sent out words of encouragement to those who are still searching for white collar jobs to discover what they like doing and put all they have into it.

“Personally, I need a job too, but I think we should also come up with some sort of ideas. I have discovered that many of our youths feel they can’t do a particular job probably because of how dirty it is. Some have the mentality of ‘what will my girlfriend say? What will my friends say? They end up getting themselves involved into dangerous vices to make quick money. But I actually know a lady who makes beads and she uses it to sponsor her education at the University of Ibadan.

He told Saturday Tribune that he was once tempted too to join bad gangs and go into Internet fraud when the jobs were not forthcoming “but I was able to convince myself that it was not the best solution.”

“When my customers make fun of me by saying ‘look at this handsome guy selling moin moin’, I answer them whether they see me carrying a gun and robbing people.”

Olanrewaju’s customers alerted him and he quickly went back to work to check if the moin moin was ready, while apologising to them in a courteous manner.

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