Meet the Grandmother Who Built a Fleet of Ten Fishing Boats From One Canoe

Forty years ago, Madam Inengiye Abbey bought her first canoe with savings from selling fried fish at the roadside. Today, she owns a fleet of ten fishing boats and employs more than thirty fishermen across two landing sites.

'People used to say a woman has no business owning boats, that it is men's work to be on the water,' she recalled. 'I told them the boat doesn't ask who bought it before it floats.'

Her business now supplies three local markets and has begun exporting smoked fish to buyers in the state capital. She credits her success to reinvesting profit rather than spending it, a discipline she says she learned from her own mother.