{"id":85992,"date":"2026-03-06T07:24:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85992"},"modified":"2026-03-06T07:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:24:41","slug":"women-rickshaw-drivers-defy-norms-in-nigerias-conservative-kano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/06\/women-rickshaw-drivers-defy-norms-in-nigerias-conservative-kano\/","title":{"rendered":"Women rickshaw drivers defy norms in Nigeria&#8217;s conservative Kano"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1XAYmx.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6\" alt=\"An unidentified woman boards a rickshaw, in Lagos, Nigeria. Monday, Oct. 14, 2013.\" width=\"495\" height=\"278\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sporting a pink knee-length veil, Umma Hani Yusuf Khalid has recently found financial stability as a rickshaw taxi driver, a trade that was unthinkable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-za\/news\/other\/women-rickshaw-drivers-defy-norms-in-nigeria-s-conservative-kano\/ar-AA1XAW04?ocid=BingNewsVerp\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Sporting a pink knee-length veil, Umma Hani Yusuf Khalid has recently found financial stability as a rickshaw taxi driver, a trade that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/keke-maruwa.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85994,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85992\/revisions\/85994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}