“I Never Thought I Could Love Someone More Than Myself”- Taaooma Gushes Over Her Baby

• In an interview with Pulse Nigeria, Taaooma said becoming a mother has shown her that nothing is impossible, as it pushes one beyond their limits and reveals untapped strength.

Nigerian skit maker Mariam Apaokagi, popularly known as Taaooma, has opened up about her motherhood journey, revealing that she loves her child more than herself.

In an interview with Pulse Nigeria, Taaooma said becoming a mother has shown her that nothing is impossible, as it pushes one beyond their limits and reveals untapped strength.

She added that motherhood has introduced her to a kind of love she never imagined, admitting she never thought she could love anyone more than herself until now.

Taaooma got engaged to her fiancé, Abdulaziz Oladimeji (Abula), in Namibia in February 2020 and married him on January 24, 2021. The couple welcomed their baby girl in 2024, with Taaooma sharing a video of her on December 5.

She said: “I realized that there’s nothing like I can’t do it. Being a mom, you always find a way. Even if you think you cannot do it, you actually find yourself doing it. Secondly, I never thought I would be able to love somebody so much. But you see, I love her more than myself.”

In other news….. In other news…. UK Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has described her time at a Federal Government Girls’ College in Sagamu, Nigeria, as tr+umatic, comparing it to “being in prison.”

In an interview, she recalled her childhood in Lagos and the hardships, strict discipline, and survival struggles she faced at the boarding school from age 11.

“I went to a secondary school, it was called a federal government’s girl school in a place called Shagamu. And that was like being in pris%n,” Badenoch stated.

“There was no running water ,we fetched it with buckets. We had to cut grass with machetes because there were no lawnmowers. It was grim,” she recalled. The dormitories were overcrowded, housing 20–30 girls per room out of the 300 students enrolled.

Badenoch said poor nutrition at the school forced her to trade meals for books but credited the experience for her resilience.

She also shared that her parents’ struggle with infertility led to her birth in the UK after her mother received treatment for endometriosis.

“My mum is still a lecturer at 75. My dad sadly passed away three years ago,” she said.

Badenoch shared fond memories of her fourth birthday in 1984, celebrated in Lagos with a Barbie cake. “I had a brown Barbie with a dress that was the cake. I thought it was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen.”