i started hawking in 1987 , in the morning i used to hawk provisions like body cream , milo, etc in the evening i would pour a bag of salt or sugar or detergent inside a bowl and hawk, one evening i was having a bowl of salt on my head i wore a buba and sokoto with open pocket on both sides two guys taller than me saw the money in my pocket after i had toured the whole of Ile Ife, they called me to a corner one was negotiating with me and the other was stealing my money , i did not know my money was stolen until i got home , then i received the beating of my life .
fast forward to 1989 when i started hawking fruit at OAU Ife campus , while hawking then at Moremi hall, awolowo, fajuyi, Angola etc i would be listening to anybody that would call "OMO" when i hear anyone call omo i would shout number!!! in return the person in need of omo would mention his or her room number then i would hide my market(fruit) in the bush and run to the place , i may be asked to wash plate , cloth or even clean the room and after the whole work they would pay us like 20 naira and we would be very happy.
so many other hawking stories for another time

Kriss216:
98.7942% of Nigerian girls hawk kpekus on a daily basis.

That your "favorite female neighbor" whom u usually borrow gas from whenever you can't fill yours must have really hawk her kpekus to fill her gas which you always borrow.

I have.


Zobo, Donuts

No i have not done it befor

All IPOB Hawk but AFONJA no no no no.

IPOB female and male occupation is hawked ( Lagos)

minasu190:
When i was kid,my elder bro and i used to hawk salt and soap for my mom,but my dad never like it.he always warn my mom never to let us hawk,that hawking is meant for girl,but mom never listen to him,then oneday dad caught us while hawkin..he was so annoyed to the extent that he carried our load and threw it inside gulter..omo no b small quarrel between mom and dad..

Good Dad. We always want the best for our kids.

Simran94:

Nah, stop giving excuses. According to you and your fellow pathetic losers, women have nothing to offer asides sex.
Stop confusing yourself .

BOY BYE!!!

see? wasn't hard to see, you're among the 99%...don't feel bad little one, we understand that you need to survive, your coochie being the only tool you can lean on...or offer, lwkmd....

suck. on. this.

Alihamdullilah for life
Have hawked kerosine,plaintain, orange,maize for my mother then.

Animegirl:


Your hate and demeaning words against Nigeria girls won't make you a better man. You just an empty vessel ranting about women here. You're nothing but a shiiiit.

I tell u

feek07:
i started hawking in 1987 , in the morning i used to hawk provisions like body cream , milo, etc in the evening i would pour a bag of salt or sugar or detergent inside a bowl and hawk, one evening i was having a bowl of salt on my head i wore a buba and sokoto with open pocket on both sides two guys taller than me saw the money in my pocket after i had toured the whole of Ile Ife, they called me to a corner one was negotiating with me and the other was stealing my money , i did not know my money was stolen until i got home , then i received the beating of my life .
fast forward to 1989 when i started hawking fruit at OAU Ife campus , while hawking then at Moremi hall, awolowo, fajuyi, Angola etc i would be listening to anybody that would call "OMO" when i hear anyone call omo i would shout number!!! in return the person in need of omo would mention his or her room number then i would hide my market(fruit) in the bush and run to the place , i may be asked to wash plate , cloth or even clean the room and after the whole work they would pay us like 20 naira and we would be very happy.
so many other hawking stories for another time

Bro, that's life for you.

Yes. I hawked locust beans early 2000...

No

I hawked kerosene at night back then in the village

2015 ph 2 years after my graduation

cowbell sweet milk and cowbell chocolate lowest point of my life

extremophile:
Toothpicks (oh those days), fish, corn flour.
My, my, those days!

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BewareOf419:
Then I hawked bra, panties, etc

I hawked fufu even after leaving secondary school. I stopped when I took up a teaching job. That was the only way we all (my elders inclusive) could help Maami with more sales.

I hawked pure water on the road, but they had to stop me when they noticed I was turning a bad boy,,,, lol

Good old days

I was a chief hawker in my teen days. I nearly hawk everything.
1. Yam
2. Garri
3.fufu
4. Akara
5. Paper
6. I also push machine house to house to grind cassava for people.
7 fake jewellerys
I still believe there are more I can't remember.
Husting part.
I was a tailor, electrician, carpenter Diesel generator mechanic, electronic watch repairer.

Till now i still hawk

Please can you share your story. I never hawked but l wished l did while growing up. Those who hawked because their parents could not nake ends meet easily were actually imbibing life lessons and skilms that will benefit them in future. They were actually but unknowingly entreprenuers who got exposed to the power of owning and managing a business. Majority of them became successful early in life than their friends whose parents had everything set up for them.

Lets here your experience.

900warriorz:
Well, I'm still that plantain boy,
but na me be the pikin wey dey give him mama joy;
many people see me as a useless boy but thank God today I'm a very big boy,
and not just a big boy, but a very rich boy

If you hear my story, you no go wish me to fail for life..

May God bless every legit hustlers out there....It was never easy

Awesome!

freedomchild:
I hawked satchet water during my primary school days, around 2000 on the streets of Aba, Abia state. I was in primary 4 then till I wrote my first school leaving.
I moved to hawking sliced water melon during my holidays because I was a boarder as a secondary school student. Then I later sold Ghana-must-go back from my SS2 in 2006 till I wrote SSCE in 2008. My younger brother also had his share of the hawking world(satchet water, cooked corn and sliced pine apples).
But today I'm a pharmacist, 30 years and doing well for myself. My younger brother now is a ship navigator moving from one country to another at 29 years. He just passed his licencing exam as a sea man last year. We're now taking care of our siblings and ageing parents.. I'm the first child and the first son of 5 children

To God be the glory

God bless your mum. She's the most smartest woman on earth. I csme from a lower-middle class family and grew upnin Festac Towon in the 80s and 90s. Till today, l wished l hawked while growing up. It would have unleashed my enterprenuel life in my teenage years which would have impacted my adult life at an early age.

Kudos to your mum!

Awoleesu:
I was raised by elite parents but Mom believed a lil exposure to the street was good especially for the male child. So, she made us hawk a few wares... From ice blocks (kankara) during Ramadan to boiled corn. I remembered how she'd drive us in her posh 504 SR sedan then into the Army barracks. The people watching with interest as we alight from the clean, air conditioned car and head into the barracks, street after street, basin on head and screaming "BUY SWEET CORN"!


What a life back then! But it paid off as I owe my present business acumen to those rough, little beginnings...
Plus, hawking helped my self confidence and has helped me withstand and overcome the effect of rejection.

Na. Back then in our compound we had neighbors who their parents send out to hawk fruits. We will tell our mum we would like to hawk too because it felt like fun back then.

Hawked sim cards that almost landed me in prison.....five days in the cell

I hawked pure water then I hawked Nylon at Iyana oba market.

Uchek:
God bless your mum. She's the most smartest woman on earth. I csme from a lower-middle class family and grew upnin Festac Towon in the 80s and 90s. Till today, l wished l hawked while growing up. It would have unleashed my enterprenuel life in my teenage years which would have impacted my adult life at an early age.

Kudos to your mum!

Thank you so much!

Truth is I didn't like her for that move then... You know, getting to see other kids playing soccer, watching films and you can't help feeling you were being abused. But each time I expressed my displeasure, she'd tell me "making money is not easy"...

Now, I wished she had taken us to the harsher streets back then... Places like mechanics workshops, central markets and all those downtown hubs. Omo, I for rugged pass this one!

But never mind, there's a place for everyone. If you're wired the corporate way and God makes a way for you in the corporate world, all is good!

Hawked yam, pepper nd tomatoes back den in jaji cantonment new barracks Kaduna state.

omo I hawked ugu and bitter leaf � even sell for bus-stop. looking back now I swear no regret at all ... know event know history.

Nope. As kids, my parents provided for me and my siblings...

Right now, we are the ones providing for them, all thanks to baba God.

Yes

Yes

[quote author=Awoleesu post=110116663]I was raised by elite parents but Mom believed a lil exposure to the street was good especially for the male child. So, she made us hawk a few wares... From ice blocks (kankara) during Ramadan to boiled corn. I remembered how she'd drive us in her posh 504 SR sedan then into the Army barracks. The people watching with interest as we alight from the clean, air conditioned car and head into the barracks, street after street, basin on head and screaming "BUY SWEET CORN"!


What a life back then! But it paid off as I owe my present business acumen to those rough, little beginnings...
Plus, hawking helped my self confidence and has helped me withstand and overcome the effect of rejection.[/quote