CELEBRATE OUR ENTERPRISING FEMALE ACCOUNTANT TURNED TAXI DRIVER

Susan Aghogho Asakpa is a graduate accountant turned female cab driver in Abuja. 
Her friend posted her pictures on Facebook to celebrate the International Women Day yesterday. 


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Asakpe is presently studying to be a chartered accountant and plans to get more cars and empower women interested in the business.
So far the experience has been interesting for Asakpe.
She drives out at 7:30 am and scouts around for workers, ‘because that’s the peak period, till 10am or 11am.’

When Asakpe started, she parks her car and sleeps off at noon, but soon discovered she could still make more money after a single experience. Overtime she has made friends with some of her customers and takes a break at their place of work. Ideally, her closing time is 5pm, but when some of her major customers are in town, she works late.

‘I had a customer recently and worked till 9pm,’ she revealed, adding that most times such jobs require her to drive them to a meeting and park while they are inside. So in this case she charges by the hour. Most times because they are her customers it fluctuates between N1,000 and N1,500. She thinks this is fair because she waits and her fuel is not used-up. And staying in a meeting for five hours by any customer automatically earns her N5000. So Asakpe makes about N100, 000 in a month, with 80, 000 being her profit. A graduate of Accounting from the University of Nigeria, Enugu, she keeps her records clean and knows what she earns on a daily basis.

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