Setting up my wife's business; my ultimate desire presently.

We have many plans as we live our lives each day. Some are short, medium and long-term plans. A man without a plan will have himself recruited to help others build their plans. Over the years, I articulated my medium term plans. The plan was to get a job, get married and establish a business for my wife.

When I finished University, a job wasn't forthcoming and this delayed the plan for a few years. Right then, I was praying to get engaged with a job on time, meet my kind of woman and settle down in marriage.

My choice of getting a woman who is business oriented was highly rekindled during the COVID-19 lockdown when many employers cut down salaries or put an outright stop to it. I was a victim of the outright stoppage just like many other private organization employees. I don't blame most of the employers to a large extent because there was a high level of uncertainty globally. It was at that point that I made the vow that whereas I might work for a salaried job, my wife would be self employed.

The reason I want my wife to own a business is that I want a wife who is free to take care of the family. If a family duty calls during working hours, she can always leave her business to her employees and attend to such a call.

About 2 years ago, I got married to such a wonderful woman. I had gotten a job with a University prior to that time. She is industrious. Before she relocated from Lagos to Abuja, she had a shop where she was supplying honey to some retailers and consumers. She made a good result out of the very limited resources available to her. I followed the growth of the business for months and years when we were dating. I was amazed at her level of business orientation. She is the type of person that you can give business capital to and be rest assured that she would make good use of it.

After our wedding, we stayed for a few months in Abuja before relocating to Kaduna where I have my workplace. It has been my plan since that point to source for money and set up a business for her. She did a feasibility study in our new state and identified about three lucrative businesses that she saw a possibility of investing in.

I had wished to raise the money immediately and give her to kickstart the business but we incurred some debts during our wedding, spent on relocation and later birthing our son. I had to clear all this and be patient with the business idea. I have been able to clear all the debts and stand on my feet to actualize the fundraising plan.

We are planning for a moderate shop that may cost us about 2 million naira to get started. Presently, I don't have such money but I am strategizing on how to raise it.

Since I am not into any debt presently, I now have the opportunity to plan for my income 100 percent. I want to increase my efforts in saving. I wish to save aggressively for a year and see to the possibility of opening the shop.

The good thing is that my wife has been supportive in many ways. She was the one that introduced me to hive a year ago. She has helped our aspirations with her activities online. She renders help to the family constantly and this gave me the confidence that we are aligned in thinking. What matters to us is working hard to make our family have financial freedom.

I hope to raise the money soon and set ourselves on the path of giving ourselves and our son the best living experience.