Ace actress, author, and trained digital filmmaker, Omoni Oboli, has once again emphasized the need to be productive and versatile in the year 2019 in order to be self-made and financially independent.

The actress who had always encouraged her fans to be productive and relentlessly pursue their dreams revealed how her mother had various streams of income to cushion the effect of her meagre teacher’s salary.

In a lengthy Instagram piece, Oboli revealed some of her lucrative business ventures and some of her few secrets of success.

Recall that the actress had chastised internet beggers on the need to engage themselves in a trade to gain financial stability.

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Read Oboli’s post;

“My name is Omoni Oboli and this year, I’ve decided to motivate as many of you as I can, to think outside this box!

“I’m a filmmaker…I run Dioni Visions Entertainment, a content production company. The film industry in Nigeria is tough! I won’t lie. Distribution and piracy chief amongst the many issues that plague us but God will strike me if I say I don’t make money from movie production.

“I have been blessed to be amongst the few studios who break even and make a profit ? I haven’t stopped there…

“You see, my mom was a school teacher. She also had a farm and every Sat, we went there to plant, weed, harvest cassava, yam, corn etc. She also sold seafood, going to the seaport some evenings after work to buy bags of seafood which we had to wash, sort and bag.

“We fried chin chin and groundnut which we bottled and sold. My sister and I woke up with her at 4 am every morning to make pastries in bulk that retailers came to pick up before 7 am when we had to get ready for school so you see, I was taught very early to be hardworking and not depend on just 1 income.

“Aside from content production, I run arguably the biggest movie and tv lighting (and some equipment) rental business in Nigeria. The biggest productions rent from us (I brag ??).

“But I haven’t stopped there, I wrote a book that sold thousands of hard copies and is still selling on Amazon giving me royalties. Working on my 2nd book already!

“I also have a thriving fashion line @omoniobolibyave with my business partner @ayovanelmar.

“I’m working on a few products (too early to mention) this year that by God’s grace will sell like pure water. The thought alone gives goosebumps!

“You’ve already heard about @omoniskitchen. We have sponsors lining up! God is good!

“I’m up most nights, plotting, planning with my team. In short, @tomesadeoye was saying to me today, ‘I want you to take a day off this week and do nothing!

“Just wake up, eat and sleep. Don’t even think about work. If you watch movies, don’t take notes, just enjoy yourself’?

“I’m not superwoman. I know peeps who do more so trust me, if I can, you can do even more! So get up!

“PS: When I build estates this year if I hear pim! ? #BeInspired #TheMoneyYear

Oboli studied at the New York Film Academy and has written several screenplays such as; Fatal Imagination, Being Mrs Elliott, The First Lady, and Wives on Strike.