So, it happened that I wanted a job in broadcasting. I was groping around for one but some people would say ‘why don’t you go and work in Kingsway Stores as sales manager or sales assistant?’ because working in such places was like being in the glamour world. Anyway, while waiting to get a radio job, I was getting little advert jobs to do; Nescafe, Dettol, Blue Band, etc. I eventually never got on radio which was my dream. But two years later (1959), I got on TV.
When I got back to Warri, my aunty, Senator Daisy Danjuma’s mother, said to me, ‘You have been doing all this stuff but you haven’t got a permanent job yet?’, because they had been seen me here and there and in the papers advertising products. She then said to me, ‘Maybe I should hand you over to my brother-in-law’ who was Minister of Justice in Ibadan. At that time, TV was just coming into being. And she felt because I was Miss Western Nigeria, I could be on TV. So I followed Mr. Ighodaro who then introduced me to Chief Enahoro with whom I had danced when I won the competition.
When I was introduced to him, he said he would like me to work with him but that there was no vacancy as an announcer and that if there was an opening, he would get me fixed up. Luckily for me, two weeks after the station opened, I was there to work.