5 Nigerian Celebrities Who Dropped Out Of School And Never Went Back

5. 2face Idibia

Innocent Ujah Idibia popularly known as 2face attended Saint Gabriel’s Secondary School in Makurdi, Benue State. He enrolled at Institute of Management & Technology, Enugu (IMT), where he did his preliminary National Diploma course in Business Administration and Management.

While attending IMT, he performed at school organised shows and parties. He eventually dropped out to pursue his music career.

2Face told Views Channel in an interview about how an incident where he was robbed devastated and led to his decision to leave school to face music.

“I got robbed sometime in school. All my audio cassettes that I recorded they took them. I was sad for like a year plus. I dropped out and I am like look I am not continuing this thing I am going to follow music.

“I actually confessed to my parents. I told them the truth that I am not going back to school. I am going to Lagos, Festac town. All this waka wey I dey talk so, na molue… staff, sometimes na fight we go fight. Them go pursue us from bus” he said.