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The graduate of Benue State University opened up during an emotional interview on the Lucky Udu Experience, highlighting the financial and moral pressures she now endures after relocating to Abuja.
“Life favors some, while others have to struggle. I feel like my own time will come,” she said, adding, “I don’t know what some of my friends do to earn a living. The money people earn in Nigeria isn’t enough, as such people go into illegal things to make money.”
During NYSC, she made efforts to stay afloat by using her monthly allowance to sell headbands.
However, since the end of the program, survival has become even more challenging. Despite constant temptations to take the easy route through transactional sex, she has chosen to stick to her values.
“If I wanted to sleep around for money, I would make it, but I don’t want to. It’s my own decision to live a good life,” she stated firmly.
She recalled a particularly painful moment when she reached out to a male friend for financial support.
“When I was passing through a lot, I had a lot of guys ask me out in my DM. I begged a friend of mine to help me with 200,000 naira to start a business, and he said that if I spent 10 days with him in a hotel, he would give me 1 million. I had to block him,” she revealed.
Calling for respect and human dignity, she added, “If I am seeking help, I don’t want people to ask me to sleep with them before they give me the money.”
She also spoke about the weight of family responsibility. “I’m the one taking care of myself and my family. I’m literally the head of my nuclear family. My mom and younger ones call me for money almost all the time,” she said.
“Even when I was going through a rough time, they still reached out, and I told them I was broke, and they would understand. Going to university, it wasn’t my nuclear family that sponsored me, it been God.”
Looking ahead, she expressed her current hope: “Since I couldn’t get a good job, I’m just trying to see if I can save up money and get a shop to start up something else too.”
“Because most times when I come back from walking to sell my headbands, I will be very sick and would have to buy drugs.”
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