SHOCKING!! 7 Top Nigerian Celebrities Who Dropped Out Of School And Never Went Back

Below is a list of successful celebrities that have shown to
the world that they can make it without a university
degree.
According to reports, some were at the university but had
to drop out due to certain reasons.

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

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.