Veteran Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, has revealed that her commitment to personal values has prevented her from becoming a billionaire.<\/p>\n
Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that the thespian spoke while appearing as a guest on the Afropolitan Show.<\/p>\n According to the mother of four, throughout her career, she was offered deals that could have brought huge financial rewards, but accepting them would have meant compromising her principles.<\/p>\n The actress explained that she often walked away from opportunities that clashed with her beliefs, even when the money was tempting.<\/p>\n She said choosing to stay true to herself has given her rewards that cannot be measured in cash.<\/p>\n Omotola also noted that she has faced these choices many times and remained firm, even when those who offered the deals are still watching her career today.<\/p>\n She said:\u00a0 \u201cIf I wanted to be a billionaire I would have been it easily because I have been in situations where no one would have known and I would have taken things and compromised my stands, but I would say no, and I would walk away. Many times, and some of those people are even watching me today.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Abia Radio News<\/strong> recalls that the actress recently spoke on\u00a0how she once went to a rough area in Mushin, Lagos State, in search of money to help pay her brother\u2019s school fees.<\/strong><\/p>\n According to her, a colleague in the film industry took her to the area to meet some men known for lending money.<\/p>\n Omotola explained that they had to pass through a rough environment before getting to the place where the men were waiting.<\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Veteran Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, has revealed that her commitment to personal values has prevented her from becoming a billionaire. Abia Radio News reports that the thespian spoke while appearing as a guest on the Afropolitan Show. According to the mother of four, throughout her career, she was offered deals that could have brought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":241784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot_20260217-045603.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}