MTN Project Fame winner completes National Youth Service
The MTN Project Fame 6 winner, Olawale Ojo has completed his NYSC program in Cross River State on Thursday, November 3, 2017.
Olawale who served in the state capital, Port Harcourt explained the reason for his disappearance in the music scene.
The singer said that his absence in the industry was due to his resolve to go back to school to complete his tertiary education after winning the contest.
According to Adeyemi, Olawale who graduated from the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho said it was difficult for him to combine music and academics.
He also that going back to school was one of the most difficult decisions he took to make his parents proud adding that many people thought he would drop out of school after winning MTN Project Fame.
“I feel that life has to be in stages and I didn’t want to skip that stage, a lot of people thought I would drop out of school because I won MTN West/African Project Fame but that would have been myopic”.
Speaking about his experience, Olawale said he was not really distracted in Port-Harcourt as very few knew him as MTN Project Fame winner.
“I was not distracted in Port Harcourt because I served in a school where not don’t know me as an artiste. It was only during the orientation camp a lot of people recognized me and I had to perform”
Olawale Ojo won the sixth edition of the MTN Project Fame in 2013.
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