Hajiya Gambo Muhammad
The woman, identified as Hajiya Gambo Muhammad, who is a senior driver in Dangote Cement Transport Obajana, has a high popularity rate among her officers at the transport department within the company.
Speaking in an interview with Leadership, she said was 18 years when she started driving a truck.
The 35 year old female driver said she inherited driving from her father who was a driver for a decade. According to her, her brothers were drivers so she joined the line of driving.
She said: "I learnt how to drive through my husband. At first I usually observed how he drove and I made up my mind that one day I would also learn. Later, I began to ask him to teach me driving.
"The first time he disagreed on my proposal, but eventually, he agreed because he thought I would not be able to cope because it is not easy. Not every male driver can drive a truck talk more of me being a female. I insisted that I was ready to learn, so he gave the directive to his partner to teach me and that was how I began to learn.
"I obtained a driving license and identification card from Dangote cement Transport, Obajana. Now I have spent 12 years working with the company. We are working together with my former husband in the same company."
"Usually, I prefer driving overnight. I drive around 1:30 to 3:00am in the night to everywhere I am going across the country."