Why People Get Shocked to Hear My Real Age - Ebuka

Very successful Nigerian media personality, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, is opening up about his age and why people get surprised to hear it - as well as speaking about why he said 2012 was the hardest time of his life, and comparing it to the current hardships of 2024. Here's what Ebuka had to say.

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First speaking about why he said 2012 was his hardest year, and comparing it to the hardship of 2024 currently, Ebuka said:

EBUKA: I started working on TV in 2006. I hosted a few shows between 2006 and 2010. And then I went to the United States to get a masters degree. I had this bright idea to get this intellectual property law degree, then come back and set up this entertainment law firm and be the greatest entertainment lawyer in Nigeria at the time. Then I came back and I had spent all my money in school and I didn't have a job. So 2012 was hard because it was at a time when people had sort of "forgotten" me. Cuz I was off the scene for two years and Nigerians they don't waste time to say we've moved on the best next host. Because I had been off the scene for a while, I didn't have the money to set up the entertainment law firm anymore. People didn't even believe in entertainment law that much at the time. So nothing I planned sort of worked out eventually. So I spent about a year and half unemployed basically. And a good chunk of it was in 2012. So I just remember that year being extremely confusing, depressing, and I had already started considering maybe I was just carry this my degree and go and look for a 9 to 5 job since this dream might not necessarily work out. So it was a very tough mental year for me.

Comparing it to 2024, of course they're on different levels because this one everybody is going through it at this point. It doesn't mean I'm not having a tough time like everybody else. But I think I'm at a stage in my career, and age-wise as well, where I've planned better and understood that you just don't get up and assume the world is going to wait for you.

The interviewer then asked "I have to quickly check your age. Are you early 40s? Gen Z?" to which Ebuka responded:

EBUKA: I'm a young man [laughs]. I don't know what people think. People who know me or who have followed my career for a while understand that I'm not Gen Z or a young millennial. But at the same time, there are people who are still surprised that I'm 40, I'm going to be 42 this year, so I don't know if that's a good thing

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