SPECIAL REPORT: Nigerian Wedding industry worse hit by COVID-19

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Following the outbreak of COVID-19, the wedding industry in Nigeria has since been worse hit while the stakeholders are still struggling to bounce back into business with little or no government support.

Explaining the situation, Samclaire said he was not the only one thrown into a financial mess by the COVID-19 and added that almost every Nigerian event and freelance photographers are facing a dare economic hardship thrown at them by the pandemic.

The situation isn’t any different for Catherine Uchenna, a wedding caterer who resides at Karu, Abuja. She said, “There is nobody in the wedding industry that was not hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact is so huge that it will take some of us more than 10 years to recover, I have sold properties and borrowed loans to survive the pandemic impact,”.Philip, a DJ, while speaking to MAWA, said it is untrue to think that after the lockdown has been lifted, normalcy will return to the wedding industry.

Janet Chimaobi, who operates a bridal store in Ikeja, Lagos, spoke to MAWA via a telephone conversation and said the impact of COVID-19 on the wedding industry is so huge. Mr Omanya told the MAWA team that he is not an exception while pointing out that many of his colleagues who were making a good profit selling Aso-Ebi were pushed out of business during the lockdown.

 

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