Nigerian singer Teniola Apata, popularly known as Teni, after her two-week struggle with illness, has said money cannot buy good health.
She disclosed this in a video shared on Instagram on Wednesday, the ‘Money’ crooner, detailing how she was down with malaria but still had to show up for a music performance.
The caption of her post read, “Money cannot buy you health o, na God.”
“When I sang ‘Uyo Meyo’ and said, ‘Ohun toju mi ti ri ah’ (What my eyes have seen) but my eyes had not seen anything. Malaria!
“Ah, e no go better for all the mosquitoes wey dey for Ikate. I dey tell you. Oba, you need to find something to do about the mosquitoes in Ikate because malaria had me down,” Teni added.
She recalled how she lost appetite, humorously saying she almost wanted her mum to wake her late dad at the burial site to come to her aid.
“I almost called my mum that they should turn off the AC in the burial ground of my father because it’s like he wanted to take a nap. I said, ‘Wake up, your daughter is dying!’ I was down. I was weak for two weeks. I couldn’t eat,” she said.
The Nigerian hip-hop singer noted that despite her illness, she travelled to Ondo State to perform because she couldn’t refund the money she was paid.
“And I went to go and perform in Ondo as I was sick oh, because who will feed me?” she said.
“Look at me. I was dying, oh! Look at me just dancing, singing ‘For Your Case’ because I cannot return money.
“Any money that enters into my account, whichever money enters inside the sugar mummy account, it does not come back outside. And they say money is the root of all evil. E no go better for evil!” she said, describing her experience.
