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FROM RAGS TO RICHES (A true life Story of a famous Nollywood Actress who moved from Street to Stardom) By Mercy Johnson I am like the girl next door. Most people know me as Mercy Johnson but did not bother to find out about the Ozioma aspect of me. Mercy Johnson Ozioma are my real names and Ozioma in my dialect (Kogi State) means a girl with good luck.  The fourth child in a family of seven, I was born about 26 years ago to an ex-military officer. I left my mother at the age of two to live with my father who was constantly being transferred from one station to another as a military man.  I am proud of my dad because he taught me all I needed to know about crossing the bridge from being a child to an adult. When I was in secondary school, I would wash my mates’ clothes and polish their shoes to get paid so that I could also pay my brother’s school fees and whenever names of people owing school fees were mentioned, I was always on top of the list. I faced a lot of emb

BELLANAIJA FOUNDER & 2 OTHER NIGERIAN INTERNET ENTREPRENEURS NAMED FORBES 30 MOST PROMISING YOUNG AFRICA ENTREPRENEURS TO WATCH IN 2014. By Olusheye Caston-Dada   Forbes, the influential international magazine has named 3 young Nigerian internet entrepreneurs to watch out for in 2014. Their names are, Uche Pedro, founder, BellaNaija, Bankole Cardoso, CEO, Easy Taxi Nigeria and Tunde Kehinde, co-founder, Jumia Nigeria. The 3 young internet entrepreneurs were named alongside 27 others as ’30 most promising young entrepreneurs in Africa 2014’ by Forbes magazine. In the list that was released on Wednesday, 19 February, Forbes referred to these young entrepreneurs as builders, innovators and risk takers who are fervent in their resolve to transform the African continent. “They are impatient to explore new possibilities and slowly but surely, they are building empires. They may be today’s upstarts, but they are tomorrow’s legends,” Forbes said. Uche Pedro, aged 30 i