The First Lady, Aisha Buhari, until recently, owned one of the
biggest spas and beauty institutes in the country. Situated
along Camp Road, a high brow area of Ungwan-Rimi
Government Residential Area in Kaduna State.
She owned Hanzy Spa and Hanzy Beauty Institute. The
beauty Institute was the first beauty institute in Northern
Nigeria and is a National Board of Technical Education
accredited vocational training centre and registered by the
Ministry of Education with the aim of exploring the untapped
wealth in the emerging beauty industry.
However, since the victory of her husband in late March, Mrs.
Buhari closed down the beauty parlour to take up the new
role as Nigeria’s First Lady. The spa and beauty institute
patronised by individuals across class, was sighted closed to
the private residence of the immediate past Vice President,
Namadi Sambo. The institute was consulted by the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation/Kaduna Refining and
Petrochemical Company to help train individuals under its
Youth Empowerment and Skill Acquisition Programme.
Ms. Buhari, a trained esthetician who obtained a diploma in
Beauty Therapy from the Carlton Institute of Beauty Therapy,
Windsor, United Kingdom and a certificate course from the
French Beauty School, Esthetique Academie Dubai, is a
member of the United Kingdom’s Vocational Training and
Charitable Trust and the International Health and Beauty
Council.
In an interview she granted Thisday Style last year, the
beautiful Adamawa State-born mother of five said:
“I’m a very busy person who does her things quietly. I
keep to my profession as an esthetician, managing my
spa and beauty institute both in Kaduna and Abuja. I
also personally perform some advanced facial
treatments like mesotherapy, gold facial and
application of TCA etc. I have a number of
documentations on my experience in this area including
writing a book titled “The Essentials of Beauty
Therapy."
She has since closed her beauty businesses now that she has
bigger responsibilities as the First lady of Nigeria,