THERE appears to be no end to the dimensions the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic has affected people’s homes since it broke out in December 2019. Many people have lost their loved ones to the dreaded virus. Others have lost their jobs while many others have had their businesses grounded by it.
For Mrs Mercy Ugba, a 40-year-old business woman from Logo Local Government Area, Benue State, however, it was her marriage that was badly hit by the pandemic. In the midst of the virus’ rage across the world, she travelled to Dubai on one of her business trips and got stranded on account of the restrictions on movement imposed by the government of the United Arab Emirates.
Unknown to her, her husband and her housemaid had been struck by affection while she was in Dubai longing wistfully for her return to Nigeria. By the time she found her way out of Dubai and landed in Nigeria, she had found herself on the reserve bench in the match of romance and lovemaking.
Mercy, a holder of the Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Benue State University, Makurdi, said her husband, 42-year-old Paul Ajuma, looked every bit a complete gentleman when they first met as fellow students in the school, where the latter was a student of Accounting, and they graduated the same year.
After graduation, she said, they both joined the United Bank for Africa (UBA), where they worked in the marketing department but left after three years to run a business of their own.
They, however, did not have a child until they were 12 years in marriage and were blessed with a baby girl. She said: “We pulled our resources together and I started the business of selling high quality wrappers to politicians, business executives, bankers as well as civil servants.
“After some time, I started going to Dubai to buy expensive and quality materials
“I then told my husband, who had also left the banking job that why didn’t we use the proceeds of our business to buy a plot of land in Lafia (Nasarawa State capital) and build a house, because we were looking at settling in Lafia due to the fact that cost of living is low there.
Source: The Nation
