OLAJUMOKE ORISAGUNA—7 HIDDEN FACTS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT HER SUDDEN TURN FROM AN AGEGE BREAD SELLER TO A MODEL OVERNIGHT!

Let me start by praying for you: May the good God of #Olajumoke Remember you and yours and cause your paths to collide with destiny. It is obvious that when it is your time things will turn to your favour, nature will orchestrate happenstance-call it coincidence-in your favour. This is the life we are in, where a nobody will suddenly become somebody that everybody will want to relate with and celebrate. 

Miracles do happen. Yes, they do! It is a miracle, if it is not expected from expected corners, if it is not planned, if it is not normal, if it is foolish and unimaginable, if you were consider for an underserving position! Like @Tybellotweets would put it while working on the photoshot “I’ll never forget that It all started with this woman here @zukiliciouz saying .. Imagine if Olajumoke was the next style cover…It sounded so out of our reach at the time but that statement fanned it into flame for sure…” 

The story of the 27 years old Olajumoke Orisaguna is an inspirational one, nay, a masterpiece motivation mover! Her inspiring story has surely moved Nigerians. Little wonder, everybody is blogging about it just as I just did! Afterall, the purpose of this blog is to inspire and invoke a change in you and then propels you to take your life and make it what you want it to be.

Below are probably things you didn’t know about Olajumoke “The Agege Bread Seller cum Model and a celebrity of Steel”

1.  She is an Agege Bread seller, NOT a Model.

She is a Bread Hawker from Sabo market bakery who was fortunate to coincidentally walk into a Tybello team street photo-shoot for Thisday Style Magazine.

According to TyBello, while they were preparing for their shoots, she walked entirely unto their set and stood amidst the photo-shoot a little confused. In spite of some observers around telling her to leave the photo scene, she stood there with her bread on her head in awe. “Then, I signalled if it was ok to take photograph and she agreed and I pressed on my shutter so she could move ahead. My main subject of interest was the Okada driver that had slowed down just before she arrived. Okada riders have that cool Lagos vibe and always happen to add a bit of swag to street portraits”

Sometimes, we may not be the focus but when God is the one leading us, men will choose us over the other, we will be most preferred to be enlisted amongst those that matters most.

2.  She is Married.

Eya, unfortunately the 27year old is taken. Jumoke is happily married to a sliding-door installer and they have two children together.

At 27, she is already married with 2 kids, one 5years old probably in school and the other 14 months old.

This is a pointer that she is more serious with her life than succumbing to the idea that she need to flirt around before settling down in marriage. For you young girls out there that are jumping from one man to the other because you think those men are not “rich” enough to date you, continue. God is watching you; your night is getting near!

3.  She and her husband are hustlers….they don’t stay together

In the words of the, Thisday Style Magazine Editor, Azuka, in is response to the misconceived idea that Jumoke’s husband resurfaced finally when fortune has finally beckoned, he said Jumoke was residing in Lagos with their two kids while her hubby was based in Osun…all in a bid to make ends meat...Jumoke and her husband just sought fortune from different lands, They needed to be on the street of ‘Hustle n Bustle’ so they decided to till different grounds- one in Osun, the other in Lagos.

One thing I observed is, she is not lazy neither is her husband. She is not like those full lazy-around-house-wives who only stay at house and wait for their husband to bring in money of “survival”. She is a responsible person. Are your responsible for your life?

4.  She was a Trained Hairdresser back in Ire, Osun State

This is what lack and poverty can do; it makes you look as though you lack skill BUT no, the lack of money and relevant resources can hinder one from reaching their full potential.

Due to the fact that her family could not afford the necessary ‘freedom ceremony’- a passing out ritual that gives a trainee an unwritten permission to branch out and go solo, she needed to relocate to Lagos with her 14 months old daughter to give bread hawking a try, leaving her husband and her older 5 years old behind in Osun.

Beyond education, it is good for one to be empowered in a way. Your handwork—what you can do with your hands can go a long way to help your adaptation for survival in the face of glaring joblessness and unemployment. I encourage you to learn a hand work today. It is a survival tool.

5.   Jumoke could barely speak English Language

When she was interrogated, she could barely reply in English Language, she had to respond in her native Yoruba language “Aso kan na ni mo wo kiri Lana…”, “When I was hawking yesterday, in fact, this was the same cloth I wore yesterday when the person saw me. He called me and said “He saw me on facebook and that is this me? I said yes. He asked me if I know madam’s house in which I replied no. He now said I should come today…” She said all these in Yoruba.

When @emaedosio, the maker of the short documentary about the whole process, asked her what she wanted to do, she also reply in Yoruba thus “Ka ma kiri Buredi kan sumon” she explained that Bread hawking wasn’t the most profitable business there is for her but it put food on her table, and that it also put a roof over her head. Howbeit, a roof she shared with scores of other hawkers.

The fact that you are not tushed doesn’t exempt you from favour from God and men. When God orders your step, irrespective on your disposition and the way you speak, men will still have to dance to your tone. It is not what language we speak and how fluent we speak them but the God speaking for us. Jumoke has collided her divine moments, the least that would happen is for her to fly!

6.  She is on her way to become an intern and a celebrated model-in-transit!

Though her success story and sudden come to limelight is accidental, it is nothing far from a miracle, nay, a divine orchestration.

Jumoke is on her way to become an intern at Make-me Hair Salon and has been offered an additional internship with Sari Signature, a famous Lebanese owned Salon on the island.

A nobody from nowhere, suddenly everyone what to be part of her success story by reaching forth to uplift her without her consent! Off course, she will consent in joyful outburst—her dream of becoming a professional hair dresser is gradually coming to fruition.

According to the narrative of TyBello Crew, “To pay Jumoke her model fee from her first job in front of the camera, we called @_ujumarshall, one of Nigeria’s and matched her fees. She is been offered a modelling contract with the help of @godsonukaegbu from a @fewmodels. She is also had @payporte reach out to her to be model on their next billboard campaign.

7.  Jumoke has found favour!

Yea, blessed hath thou o Jummy baby. How I wish you are my sister.

Abi, how do you explain this, a bread hawker who accidentally bumped into a photoshot could have just been cropped out of the photo with the help of photoshop. But no, she fit into the whole package and made the cover of the Thisday magazine a hit such that they were all in search of her all over the internet and offline until she was found.

Favour is indeed a locator. Today, her story has changed from a hopeless and helpless young woman whose future looks so bleak to a woman whose future is promising and predictable. Her husband will soon be called “The husband of the former Agege Bread seller now a Model and a Fashionista”.

When God changes a man’s stature, He changes his name altogether.

May our life experience such turnaround as this that will provoke a testimony that will motivate and encourage others to believe God is no respecter of persons regardless of exposures or literacy level.

Let me just stop here.

I want to hear your own comments too. And kindly help me share this to inspiring others.

Exponent Samuel Adu

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