Spiritual Attacks Made Me Drop Out Of School – Ojoge

Nollywood veteran actor Sesan Adio, also known as Ojoge, has said that his lack of education affected his life. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he started having spiritual attacks after he was recognised as a brilliant student by a teacher, and the experience eventually forced him to drop out of school.

Ojoge added that even though elders in the neighbourhood visited to congratulate his mum for having a brilliant child, it was all fake love.

His words, “I was in Primary 2 when one teacher in Primary 3 saw me in the school and asked me how many feet make one foot, and I said 3. He was impressed and took me to his class asking me to flog all my seniors in Primary 3 because they didn’t know it.

Among these students, there were two of my neighbours at home who went home and told everyone what happened, and the elders started coming to our house to congratulate my mother that she had a brilliant son, unaware that it was fake love.

After that period, each time I was to resume school, I would fall sick, my parents tried all they could and even sent me to Ibadan to live with my mother’s sibling, but unfortunately, all I could do was study till Primary 5 before I dropped out of school.

I believe that lack of education is what has affected me this much.”

WOW.

Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.

The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.

Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.