Meet 18-Year-Old Halima Umar Atana, A Chef And Restaurant Owner, With 2 Branches At Lagos & Kano

Meet Multi-Talented Teenager Who Runs Restaurant In Lagos, Kano

She is a jack of all trades and master of all. Her knowledge of skills knows no bound.

From a very early age in life, she developed an interest in entrepreneurship, acquired all acquirable skills, and today, she is not only a blessing to herself and her family but to her immediate community, Lagos State and the country at large.

Eighteen-year-old Halima Umar Atana is a chef and runs a restaurant at the popular Oniwaya junction, Capitol Road, Agege in Lagos State. Though an indigene of Kano State, she was born and bred in Lagos.

She is the managing director/chief executive officer of Atanas Meal, where local and continental dishes, snacks, mock tails and drinks are prepared and sold.

Apart from the Lagos restaurant, she also operates a mini-branch in Kano State, where she hails from.

Atana is obviously a lover of skills. She produces tea bags and spices, such as ginger, turmeric, garlic, yellow pepper and yaji, among others.

Her philosophy about life is that every girl-child and woman should be skilful so that she can be helpful, not only to herself but to her children, family and the society.

She is also the chief executive officer of Modern Walk by Atana, a company that renders tailoring services, ready to wear, sells exotic fabrics and deals in all kinds of fashion accessories. She selects clothes for brides, sketches their dresses and transfers the sketch to her tailor to sew. Atana also gets make-up artists for brides.

Despite doing all these, she is studying Dentistry at the Emirate College of Health, Science and Technology in Kano State. Dentistry is a branch of medicine that deals with treatment of diseases and other conditions that affect the teeth and gums, especially the repair and extraction of teeth and the insertion of artificial ones. Atana is presently in her 300-level.

How Atana became a chef

Like many other businesses, Atana started small with making of small chops.

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