child with a widowed mother. “Starting a career as a young girl of 16, all I wanted was to help my widowed mother provide for our young family. I stumbled on the opportunity to model freely, and by fate, I was invited to a movie casting. Who knew as frightened and vulnerable as I was then, that I was starting the journey of my destiny?” She added, “Twenty years later, not only did I provide for my now late widowed mother, I also helped to train two younger ones and earned myself a career in Nollywood, an industry that I helped to start with practically nothing, but which has gone on to become the second largest English- producing and third largest movie industry in the world.”
She noted that the encounter with the
pupils gave her an opportunity to encourage younger generations to
believe in themselves for a better nation.
“That was my motivation: to meet with young children.”
She also used the occasion to launch her
pet project ‘I gat value’ and also motivated the young pupils by sharing
her experience while growing up to stardom.
She said, “What is lacking most among us
in Nigeria is value. We don’t feel valued. I wonder if our government
cares about us. What is the value of a Nigerian child? How many people
died in France and the whole world was in France? Even our President is
sending commiserating messages to them and he is not acknowledging all
the things happening here in northern Nigeria. Are northerners not part
of Nigerians anymore?” She asked.
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