Taaooma Biography, Age, Husband, Child, State Of Origin, Religion, Net Worth

Taaooma is a well-known Instagram content producer and comedienne. She creates comedic sketches for her enormous, growing Instagram following.

African parents, and African moms, in particular, thank God for mothers and are well known for their strict parenting styles.

If you are an African, you undoubtedly know this. If you are familiar with popular comedy skits, Taaooma, the clever comic who has created amusing sketches, particularly on how African moms punish their children, must be a known name to you. Everything you require to know about her is presented to you now.

Taaooma Biography

Early Life

Apaokagi Maryam, aka Taaooma (born February 28, 1999, 26 years old), is from Ilorin, Kwara State. She is a Muslim by religion, and her mother is Mrs. Aishat Apaokagi.

She completed her elementary schooling in Kwara State before relocating to Abuja. She completed her secondary education at Namibia’s Concordia College.

Apaokagi Adedoyin Maryam graduated from Kwara State University with a bachelor’s in tourism and travel services management. In July 2020, she finished her National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) course of study.

Career

She was persuaded to start performing comedic sketches by her husband, Abdulaziz Oladimeji (a music director better known by his stage name, Abula), who recognized her untapped ability. She claims he instructed her to operate the camera and the Adobe Premiere Pro video editing program.

Since the debut of her first comedic skit in 2015, Apaokagi Maryam has rapidly gained popularity and notoriety. She has won some of the accolades for which she has been nominated nationally and internationally.

She received the 2019 Gage Award for Best Online Comedian and the Nigeria 25 Under 25 Awards for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2020, she was nominated for The Future Awards Africa’s Content Creation (Vloggers and YouTubers) and the MAYA Awards Africa’s Skit Maker of the Year.

Taaooma launched “When Your Mum Drives you to School” in April 2019 after regularly creating numerous skits since 2015 that grew her online presence. Her fame and online followers skyrocketed when this skit went viral.

Celebrities like Mr Macaroni and Falz like, share, and comment on her skits. She has over 1 million Instagram followers, nearly 1.5 million Facebook fans, and over 350,000 YouTube subscribers. Due to this, Taaooma is now a powerful social media influencer who promotes other products.

In her skits, Taaooma plays three key characters; occasionally, she performs all three at once. These are Taaoo (herself), Iya Taaoo (her mother), Baba Taaoo (her father), and Tayo (her brother). The thunderous slap of Iya Taaoo herself is the thrilling part of her antics that you wouldn’t want to miss.

Apaokagi Adedoyin Maryam and her boyfriend, Abula, who is about her age, own a production company called The Greenade Company. She describes it as a full-time video production company and plans to make movies in the coming years.

Marriage

Taaooma got married to her longtime partner, Abula. They exchanged vows in court in October 2020 and married on January 24, 2021.

When Taaooma returned from Namibia for her graduate studies in Kwasi, they first connected in Ilorin, Kwara State, during Abula’s NYSC year. They met thanks to their shared passion for filming and editing.

House and Cars

Despite being well-known, Taaooma has kept her private life a secret; as of this writing, no information about her personal vehicle is available. She lives in Lagos, where she shoots her comedy skits.

Net Worth

Taaooma is among the richest female comedians, with an estimated net worth of $200,000.

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