Love for what I do keeps me going not money- Marylyn Anona
Sarah Domozu
A social and multimedia entrepreneur, talk show host, face of soccer international, Nigerian cake and fashion exhibitionist, humanitarian, mental health advocate, Marylyn Oma Anona has won several awards.
Anona has won award for teenager suicide awareness 2018, Didactic Humanitarian award 2015,
Best TV personality award 2016, Enterprising Entrepreneur Award of the year 2018, Face of MeeVee, Most Vibrant and Effective Young Entrepreneur in Abuja 2018 by Papyrus Magazine, Best TV presenter 2017, Prestigious Nigerian youths award, Icon of Hope 2016, University Of Abuja, Most inspirational Blog west Africa 2013. West African bloggers award.
Oma has proved that you don’t need the help of anybody to succeed but just to have the right mindset and the spirit to push until it happens, until you see yourself succeed.
Marylyn Oma Anona, the lady with a difference, has carried out several humanitarian activities through which so many have been helped into becoming strong and fit to stand on their own, she has organised different entrepreneurial training of different categories to help individuals, and this has been done without any fee attached, “helping people and putting smiles on their faces is my passion” she said.
Though a biochemist by profession but passion has brought her thus far following the path her maker has called her she said ” as the days go by I keep on discovering myself as it’s a constant thing, constantly evolving to fit in to trending trends in the society. The love for what I do keep me going not money, if its money I would have been long gone as most of what I have done so far is free for the past three years now.
“Furthermore purpose discovering is very important in life as it was purpose discovering that brought me to where I am now, I discovered that I can talk so I developed myself and in doing this I have been master of ceremony (MC) in red Capet events and anchored several Omaliving talk shows and others”.
Oma has proved that you don’t need anyone to pioneer your success. she has decided not to go after the government for any financial assistant, as she believes that the government should at every point in time come in to help those doing underground work by helping them reach to those they should have reach out to.
She advised the young people to be awake, “the youths have to wake up because we now live in a society where you have to do extra, go beyond self, stop thinking like you are still babies, rise above that, do something different, try something new, enough of lying down waiting for help, nobody should have a reason not to succeed or move forward, you too can break barriers.
“I encourage you come January to attend my program well packaged to help build and equip you in 2019 to live a better life, fee is affordable” she concluded.
