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Nyma Akashat-Zibiri is a lawyer turned On Air Personality. She is a wife and a mother who believes that everyone should be treated with respect no matter their religious background and up bringing. She is extremely passionate about justice and believes that her voice can make a lot of difference. In this interview with CITY PEOPLE, she spoke about her passion and how her ability to speak her mind about any issue got her the role of a co-host on the TVC’s YOUR VIEW morning show.
–NYMA
How did you become a co-host on the show?
I got on the show because I was watching. I am ardent watcher. Because I had just put to bed, I always at home and so I got used to watching every morning. And then one day Morayo was talking about the need for a Muslin woman to come and apply because they needed to balance it out since all the other women on the panel were all Christians. I just thought to myself that I could give it a try even though am a lawyer by profession. I didn’t know what to do at the audition, I just tried and I was picked.
What is that quality that you think the panel saw in you during the audition?
I simply talk too much. Every other person that came were equally good, 4 of us were shortlisted. They were good with good faces for TV but I think what stuck out for me was my voice at the time. I was very passionate about the issues at that time so I think I spoke out more. Issues like the Confab it was already brining in my head. I had my own view that I needed to let out at that time.
How easy is it running your home and being on the show every morning?
It’s not easy. For me, I was not ready at the time I joined the show. The show starts in the morning so I have to get here early, read the papers, get ready and all that. I was not really ready because my baby was still little although above a year but I didn’t have a nanny. But thank God for my mother-in-law. I would take my baby to her in the morning and rush down here. It was not easy at all because I live very far away from here.
Have you ever been on tv before you took up the job as a co-host of your view?
Before your view, I was never on TV, my first experience with the camera is your view apart from my wedding. Initially I had this stage fright, even till now I don’t know where my camera is, am always looking at my co-host when ever am talking rather than addressing the people back home. And what I have realized is that your view is about you being opinionated and well informed.
How are you able to relate with other women on the show since you are the only muslim?
Thank God for my background. I grew up in a place where I had people from different ethnic group and different cultures. I was born in Lagos and I went to school in the barracks and you know in the military you have people from different places and when my parents moved out, my best friend that that I grew up with is a Christian. I was thought to respect people irrespective of where they come from or their religion and that is what I grew up with. It is about you personally not about your faith. If I respect you then you respect me as well.
Have you ever had any issue with the other ladies?
Yea, about clothes, make-up, you are looking better than me and all those funny issue that women use to have. But fortunately we are all matured, the way we settle this things are simple because we all have the same goal which is to have a successful show. To inform and entertain Nigerians. So we look forward to what we have to do in the studio, we don’t have time to bother over unnecessary things. We get over any minor issue and focus on achieving the goal of the day.
How do you relax?
I always spend time with my family, I love family,we go out to see comedy shows, and once in a while we travel. But my most relaxing moment is when am with my sisters because now we are married and separated. So once in a while we get together and when am with them am so relaxed because we let it all out, then my Ijab is out, gisting and all.
Have you always worn the ijab all your life?
I started wearing Ijab when I got into the university for my Diploma in Law then 1999. (cuts in: so since then you have never been caught without the Ijab on except your husband?) A lot of people have caught me without it in the make-up room, let me not say you can not. But usually, I always have it on.
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