Money, Fame Make Them!!!

Nigeria is a country with numerous talents. Many entertainers did not start out as the so-called ‘big boys’ or born with ‘silver spoon’. They were like everyone else in Nigeria, looking for their daily bread. ANTHONY ADA ABRAHAM writes on how fame and money can change even the neglected
PLANTASHUN BOIZ
Plantashun Boiz was a group of three awesome young men. According to Faze, Black Face told him that he knew he wanted to do music, so he had to leave every other thing and face it. It did work out for him. God has a calling for everyone, and he thinks music is his calling.
He relocated from where he was living because they weren’t living together at that time. He went to live with 2face and Blackface to enable them form the Plantashun Boiz.
Back then they were not the big-boys they are today. They went through thick and thin to get to the level they are in now.
Tuface once said; “o’l boy…I don suffer ooo. I waka well well before I become famous. Nothing good comes easy.”
They worked on different albums and singles until the group split up and each went solo.
REMEDIES
Tony Tetuila, Eedris Abdulkareem, Eddy  are the three founding members of Remedies. They were all from the grassroots and worked passionately to become what they are today.
GENEVIEVE NNAJI
According to an interview with Geneveive Nnaji in 2004 on what she liked most about stardom, she said; “The fact that it opens doors for you is what I like most about it. You walk into a place and every other person is queuing up for one thing or the other, they just start to recognise you. Oh! come in, come in…It’s actually a door opener for us or for me. It has brought respect, especially when you do what you are doing well. What I hate most about it is the price that we get to pay for stardom – negative publicity, the untrue scandals; actually, the only thing I hate about it is the negative press.”
OMOTOLA JALADE-EKEINDE
Omotola was introduced to acting by escorting a friend to an audition. Her first acting role was in the 1995 movie, Venom of Justice, directed by Reginald Ebere. Reginald has been cited as launching Omotola’s career. She was given the lead role in the movie, which set the stage for a flourishing career in the Nollywood film industry. Omotola Ekeinde got her first big role in the critically acclaimED film: Mortal Inheritance (1995). In the movie, she played a sickle-cell patient who fights for her life despite the odds of survival. Omotola’s character overcame the disease and had a baby. The film is regarded as one of Nigeria’s best movies ever made. Ever since then, she has not looked back and she has starred in several blockbuster movies, including Games Women Play, Blood Sisters, All My Life, Last Wedding, My Story, The Woman in Me and a host of others. Today she’s the society and Nollywood ‘big girl’.
BASKET MOUTH
Bright Okpocha popular known as Basketmouth came into the spot light in 2001 when he met Ali Baba, one of the foremost Nigerian comedians. He has performed alongside other comedians including Teju Babyface, Paul Play Dairo among others and always joke on how he suffered before attaining the level he is in today.