Jude Okoye elder brother and former manager of the defunct pop group, Psquare has shared his grass to grace story.
The renowned music video director said he spent his first four nights in Lagos sleeping under the bridge. He also revealed that he had to work as a conductor to make ends meet.
According to him:” DID YOU KNOW….? My first 4 nights in Lagos in 1995 was spent under ijora bridge stranded cos of music hustle. Had to do conductor work route ijora – jibowu everyday to survive”, he wrote on Instagram.
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Popular Nigerian comedian, Atunyota Alleluya Akpobome, popularly called Alibaba, also revealed that he was once a bus conductor in Delta State.
He said that he occasionally used his father’s Toyota Crown vehicle to convey people to their respective destinations as a taxi-driver.
He said, “I have been a bus conductor before, from Ramah park back to Ogbaazu (in Delta State).”
“I had my dad’s Toyota Crown. I will take the car for washing and I would do kabu-kabu (taxi), bribe him by coming with all the newspapers and put on the table”.
“ I have loaded bottles before in Super Brew. Even the Ibrus knew me because during holidays my dad takes us to the village. Our own summer was in the village.”
“So when I started doing stand-ups, they were one of the first people that I visited and they were like, you are the one that loads crates and I responded, Yes I used to.”
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