August 17, (THEWILL) – Terkimbi Ggbaden Omori, better known as TG Omori, has recounted how he battled depression for a year after failing the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, in 2012.
Speaking about the experience with ‘Zero Conditions Podcast’, the Nigeria music video director said he was trying to get into a tertiary institution, but needed to pass UTME.
He added that he wrote the examination on two different occasions in 2012 and 2013, but didn’t pass the examination.
Omori revealed that the pastor and some members of the church he was attending then were willing to sponsor his education.
He added that his father was poor then and was unable to pay his school fees and that of his siblings at the same time.
“I was 16 when I failed JAMB the first time and fell into depression.
“I was trying to go to the university. JAMB jammed me. The first time was in 2012, JAMB jammed me. In 2013, I did my JAMB again, it was not so crazy, but that could get me into a film school.
“They love me a lot, especially the pastors’ wives. I was like their young child. They were all waiting for my JAMB result. They wanted me to go to school. They were willing to help me, my brother was in school too so my father could not pay his children’s school fees.
“So I was very focused. Because everybody love me in the church so I had people that were willing and said ‘If you have good grades, I would pay for your school fees’.
“When I failed JAMB the first time, I faced depression because I was like, I saw sponsors and people that were willing, I knew my dad could not send me and my brother to school and then boom, I blew my JAMB result’.
“You know how these things are, you do not know if they are gonna still be in the mood the next year so the whole year I was depressed. I was home, I was not feeling myself. Then JAMB came again, that was the first time I was feeling defeated, I was so nervous while writing, it was hell. I was just 16 then, I went to write JAMB again, I did not get my cut-off mark again into university”, he revealed.
