1. Genevieve Nnaji
Genevieve Nnaji (born 3 May 1979)
is a popular name in the Nollywood
industry. She is one of the most
successful actress in Nigeria. Despite
being a very intelligent and
successful woman, she did not
acquire a university degree, even
after saying would go back to school
for several years.
Apart from acting, Genevieve owns a
fashion line St.Genevieve, launched
in May 2008.

2. wizkid (baba nla)
Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun (born 16
July 1990), well known as Wizkid is
a popular song writer and singer.
According to reports, he started
singing at 11years as Lil Prinz.
However, he started his music career
fully with Banky W’s music group,
Empire Mates Entertainment (EME)
in 2009.
Wizkid dropped out of Lead City
University in his second year
because of his music career, hoping
to continue later.
According to records, Wizkid’s
achievements in the music industry
includes: a BET Award, a MOBO
Award, three The Headies Awards,
two Channel O Music Video Awards,
four Nigeria Entertainment Awards,
a Ghana Music Award, two Dynamix
All Youth Awards, two City People
Entertainment Awards, and a Future
Award. In addition, he has been
nominated three times at the MTV
Europe Music Awards as well as four
times at the World Music Awards. He
was ranked 5th on Forbes and
Channel O’s 2013 list of the Top 10
Richest/Bankable African Artists.

3. 9ice
9ice (born Alexander Abolore
Adegbola Adigun Alapomeji
Ajifolajifaola,on 17 January 1980) is
a popular indigenous singer
9ice who is now a politician
attended Abule Okuta Primary School
and CMS Grammar School, and
dropped out from his Law course at
the Lagos State University to
concentrate on music.
On his achievements so far, 9ice won
the Revelation of the Year award and
the Best Male Vocal Performer at the
2008 edition of the Hip Hop World
Awards held in Nigeria. A month
later at the first SoundCity Music
Video Awards, 9ice was nominated
in the category of Best New Artiste.
9ice’s biggest single is titled “Gongo
Aso”. He is the founder of Alapomeji
Records. 4. Mercy Johnson
Mercy Johnson (born in Lagos on 28
August 1984) is a popular Nollywood
star. She is one of the highest paid
actresses in Nollywood. Mercy
Johnson Okojie revealed that she got
into the Nigerian movie industry
because she failed the university
entrance exams (JAMB) several
times.

5. D’banj
Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo (popularly
known as D’banj, born 9 June 1980)
is a Nigerian singer-songwriter,
harmonica player, and businessman.
Dbanj is one of the leading musicians
in Africa.
He reportedly dropped out of school
when he was in 300Level
(Mechanical Engineering).
Records has it that he has won
several music awards, including the
awards for Best African Act at the
MTV Europe Music Awards 2007,
Artist of the Year at the MTV Africa
Music Awards 2009, Best
International Act: Africa at the 2011
BET Awards, and Best-selling African
Artist at the 2014 World Music
Awards, Evolution award at the 2015
MTV Africa Music awards.
6. Don Jazzy
Michael Collins Ajere popularly
known as Don Jazzy is one of the
famous Nigerians who did not need
education to achieve success. The
prolific music producer and C.E.O of
Mavin Records dropped out of
Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma in
his first year.

7. 2face Idibia
Innocent Ujah Idibia popularly
known as 2face attended Saint
Gabriel’s Secondary School in
Makurdi, Benue State. He enrolled at
Institute of Management &
Technology, Enugu (IMT), where he
did his preliminary National
Diploma course in Business
Administration and Management.
While attending IMT, he performed
at school organised shows and
parties. He eventually dropped out to
pursue his music career
2Face told Views Channel in an
interview about how an incident
where he was robbed devastated and
led to his decision to leave school to
face music.
“I got robbed sometime in school. All
my audio cassettes that I recorded
they took them. I was sad for like a
year plus. I dropped out and I am
like look I am not continuing this
thing I am going to follow music.
“I actually confessed to my parents. I
told them the truth that I am not
going back to school. I am going to
Lagos, Festac town. All this waka wey
I dey talk so, na molue… staff,
sometimes na fight we go fight. Them
go pursue us from bus” he said.

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