Okikiola Fasanya, an up-and-coming shoemaker says that she is always willing to get her hands dirty so as to produce lovely and fanciful shoes for her clients.

"I tell my clients that I am ready to get my hands dirty to make their feet lovely.

"I go the extra-mile to satisfy my clients by paying more attention to the smallest details of shoe making," Ms. Fasanya told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday.

NAN reports that Ms. Fasanya, an Ibadan-based university-graduate-turned shoemaker studied History Education at the Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo in Ondo State.

She said that she chose shoe-making because she wanted to promote the production and the wearing of local shoes and sandals by Africans, thus promoting the African culture.

"Also, the love my brothers have for locally-made shoes and slippers inspired me to start a business in this line."

Ms. Fasanya added that she discovered that the major raw materials: animals' hides and skins; were available locally and in large quantities.

According to her, most of what goes into the production of her products are local contents relevant to and available in the country.

She advised those searching for white-collar jobs to acquire skills in various vocations that would make them relevant to their communities.

She said that they would also become self reliant, self dependent and be employers of labour with time.

Ms. Fasanya who acquired the shoe-making skill as a youth corps member at Ibadan, Oyo State, said that her ultimate satisfaction in the job was to please her clients by the quality of her works.