Meet Lukman, Kaduna’s physically-challenged fashion designer

• Lost mother shortly after birth, dropped out of school, became paralysed but refuses to surrender to life’s challenges
• Says a wheelchair will resolve some of his problems
 
From Noah Ebije, Kaduna
Life has dealt several difficult blows to 45-year-old Lukman Abubakar, a Kwara State indigene but resident in Kaduna.
He said he lost his mother shortly after birth, dropped out of school because of financial difficulties and later became paralysed from the waist down, losing the ability to walk.
Yet, amid these painful experiences, Lukman has found something that has given him renewed hope: love, companionship and a family of his own.
 
Lukman and his wife
 
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