By Aliyu Askira
Yaseera Babangida Zubairu Yola is a slim, beautiful and friendly Adamawa born that is trying to cut her teeth in acting career.
She attended her primary and secondary schools before she later obtained a diploma in Mass Communications all in Yola, Adamawa state.
Undoubtedly, Yaseera, who is still in her twenties, has had an impressive career in journalism before crossing over to full-time acting in Kannywood.
Before joining the industry, Yassera was working with Gotel Radio that was owned by the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, in Yola.
At Gotel Radio, Yassera did wonderfully well, perhaps that was why she got into the prying eyes of and NGO called African Peer Review Mechanism, who engaged her as their full-time field and monitoring officer.
Though, the job was too demanding as it had to do with writing scripts and programmes that was being aired at Fombina Radio, Yaseera was able to weather the storm.
Later, Fombina Radio, having got impressed by her starling performance, invited her to join them on full time basis and she willingly did.
However, when the unfortunate incident of Boko Haram insurgency started, which affected almost all parts of the North-east, Yassera fled to Kano to stay with her father’s sister.
In Kano at that time she had no Job. Seeing that, Yassera decided to explore her contacts which she had gathered along the line of her journalism practice.
The likes of Al-Rahus, Ali Gumzak, Ishaq Sidi Ishaq, and host of other big shots of Kannywood are those that came to her mind. Ishaq Sidi Ishaq was the first person she contacted and luckily assisted her.
At first, she started with Television series. So also her second third projects. That is why she is still engaged in most of the series which are yet to be on Television, like the one being sponsored by Dadinkowa Television.
However, she also featured in one Hausa film called: ‘Kujerar Wuta’, an adventure film in which she had to climb rope five times and was subjected to run into very deep water for a long distance.
In fact, it is the first of its kind in Kannywood. It is a very difficult role for a woman to do.
Yaseera, though a Fulani lady with tender age and from a good religious background, sees settling down lying far ahead of her, adding that what she wants now is to go back to the University and get a university degree and later continue with her acting career.
“In fact I intend to be in acting until when I have become successful and a household name before getting married.”
At this juncture, most people would jump into the obvious conclusion that this Fulani beauty wants to enjoy her life to the fullest since she is in the industry is where indecency runs rife.
Contrarily, Yaseera debunked such conclusion and insisted that most of the things people say about the waywardness of Kannywood actresses are not true because, according to her, since she joined the industry some time ago, she had never noticed all of these.
She added: “Of course even those that engage in such social vices like drinking and womanizing do so at their own leisure time.
“Because when you go for shooting, all of you are lodged in a hotel. You go out to eat together but during the shooting all the crew members will be watching. So there is no opportunity for one to even misbehave.”
As for acting in Nollywood she said, “If the opportunity comes up, I will do it because I speaks English fluently.
“I think am now matured to interpret any script but I also think that my forte lies only on an adventure films.
“I can also appear in love films that will not involve kissing or hugging, not for any prize because one’s body is meant for his husband or wife.”
On whether her beauty and vulnerability as a 20 year-old has made men run around her, Yaseera confessed that, virtually on a daily basis, different guys in and outside Kannywood approach her for relationship but she always turns them down because according to her, that is not her priority.
“I would prefer to be an actress because I enjoy meeting other actors and actresses that before now I only watched them on the movies.
“Secondly, this is a profession that immediately you are given an offer to act, you will collect your payment before work commence.
“Unlike a salary worker, who is always counting days for month to end before getting his or her salary, here you are always in money because some producers will even pay you for a film that will start in a months to come.
“And again, I was opportune to visit several states in the country to shoot films. I got this opportunity because I am here. Very soon, UK entertainment is taking some of us to Niger Republic for a film project.
“As you can see all these are opportunities that one doesn’t find in other profession.
“I will go to Niger, meet with other artist there, take pictures, visit places, do my film assignments, and come back as a happy person. These are the sort of life Yaseera likes,” she noted.
Reportedly, over the years most actresses have had one bottleneck or the other at the point of joining the industry. Some joined without their parents’ express permission, while others do so at the risk of losing their relationship and family ties.
As such, when such question was posed before Yaseera, she replied in the affirmative and also added that: “In my own case, I got their blessings before joining the industry though on the condition that I would not bring shame to the family, which I promised to do so.”
However, Yaseera is not without some ambitions she has set for herself to achieve in the industry and her life as a whole.
She said: “Though I am a woman, I want to be successful in life and do things that only men can do. Also, my desire now is to visit the holy land of Saudi Arabia and pray to God.
“Later visit Dubai, Indonesia, Senegal, Niger, China, India and Sudan because I like travelling, reading especially Adventure novels and watching action films.”
She also intends to set up a gender sensitive NGO in future, and be a resource person and generally be useful to the society and live a peaceful and exemplary life.
Her prayers is that what she witnessed in her home state, Adamawa as a result of the Boko Haram heinous operations do not befall any part of the country, even though the incident has opened doors of opportunities for many people like her who relocated to other parts of the country for safety.
