Niniola Covers Vanguard Allure
Nigerian Afro house singer, Niniola Apata is the cover of Vanguard Allure’s July edition released Sunday, July 1st where she talked about her journey in the Nigerian music industry starting from MTN Project Fame not knowing anything and learning through the process that successfully made her a nominee at the BET Awards that took place on the 24th of June 2018.
In this interview, the Maradona singer talked about how gender has
not played a role in where she has gotten to presently in the music
industry, stating that she didn’t come into the game as a woman, instead
she came in as a singer and through hardwork she has gotten to where
she is. She said;
Speaking for myself, I’ll say hard work has helped me
grow the way I’ve grown. When I was coming into the industry I told
myself that “Niniola, you’re coming to do music and quality music and I
told myself I wasn’t going to see the work as gender-based and I’m going
to come and excel. I said I was going to come and do dance music and my
song will get into the club and with God’s grace, hard work and
perseverance plus my team and if that has worked for me so far, it just
goes to show that hard work pays at the end of the day. So it’s not
about gender.
She also spoke about her
Adopt A Child foundation
which is her own way of stepping into her late father’s shoes, a man who
was an advocate of standard education for every child;
Adopt a child is my foundation that was borne out of
the fact that I wanted to step into the philanthropic shoes of my dad.
When he was alive he loved to give free education because he believed in
helping children. So I decided to go back to my hood in Isolo, Irakare
Estate and I went to about six public schools, asked for their top five
students, they sat for an exam and I picked the top two, thankfully it
was a boy and a girl so there was no issue of gender. I put them in
school and gave them a six-year high school scholarship which includes
tuition, uniform and books. This happened three years ago and they’re in
JS3 three right now. I can’t wait to see them finish that as I will not
be abandoning them as I plan to see them further their education but
that’s not the only kind of educational assistant we give. I give out
books, Jamb form to kids that cannot afford it and as time goes on
things will get bigger and better.
Well done Niniola, keep soaring!!!
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