When, in 2025, 19-year-old Zainab Abubakar advanced to 200 Level in the Department of History and International Studies at Northwest University in Kano State, North-West Nigeria, her mind started drifting towards what to do to make her own income. ‘To be a supportive daughter,’ she said. ‘Because it’s not everything that I should be relying on my parents to give me.’ But she had no money to start a business. A few weeks later, her sister Hajiya …