October 4, (THEWILL) –Big Brother Naija reality show star, Hermes, has revealed that he didn’t have a tertiary education.
The former housemate made this known in an interview with The Cable. According to him, he lost his father at a stage he needed him most.
The death of his father deprived him of the opportunity to get the required education, but he resorted to learning from the street.
“I went to Ogudu grammar school, wrote WAEC, but didn’t pass, and never went to university because my dad passed on and I couldn’t afford to and had no support.
“So, I just thought you know what I needed education not schooling, I will just get it on the street and I got exactly that. Some thugs and market women just taught me what exactly I needed for life and I took it to heart, I built on some advice I got from the street. Got myself in the space where I needed to learn and I learned.”
On what prompted him to go for the reality show, he stated that he wanted more visibility.
“So before I went to BBNaija, I had been doing a lot but I wasn’t getting the visibility that I deserved for the work I already put in. I was trying to reach out to sponsors and was trying to get resources for holding space for youths like myself who carried the potential to do great things but didn’t have a platform to grow”, he stated.
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