SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the unsafe haircutting practices in Nigeria (2)
Located opposite the popular Y-junction at Oremeji in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, Rabiu Fagunwa’s wooden shop might have accommodated more customers in its 55 years of existence than a football stadium in one game.
“I have the electronic clipper at home but how will I use it? Do you see power supply? Whether there is supply or not, I work,” he says, justifying his bias for the manual clipper.“I started when shaving was 2 kobo per head for children and 3 kobo for adults. Later it became four kobo and now one head goes for at least 100.”
“If you go to barber’s shop now, you can shave for as much as N500 but if I go to market, a pack of blade is not up to N100, with five inside, I can use it for like 10 times. I use one twice, each side at different times. So, I don’t spend up to N10 for my cuts. Let’s assume shaving in barber’s shop is N300, that multiplied by 10 is 3, 000 and N70 blade will serve the purpose,” he explains.
“I began using blade as far back as 2002. What caused this is because there was a day I was at the barber’s shop when the light went off and generator wasn’t commonplace like now. He eventually used razor blade to complete the haircut. I was angry because I paid for clipper. “I’ve never used blade to inflict a cut on my sons before. The thing is that, apart from me, I don’t allow anyone else to cut their hair and they don’t share blade with outsiders.
“Hepatitis B, C and HIV are some of the diseases that can be transmitted via unsafe shaving methods. This occurs when secretions like blood or body fluids from an infected person with these viruses come in contact with an uninfected person through a cut on his scalp during shaving. Bacterial and fungal infections are also transmissible through unsavoury shaving methods” she says.
“It’s encased in the skull, three layers of meninges and bathing in cerebrospinal fluid, all of which combine to be excellent buffers between the brain and the outside world.
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