Popular Nigerian rapper, MI Abaga, and his wife, Eniola Mafe, are learnt to be suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

ADHD is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders of childhood. It is usually first diagnosed in childhood and often lasts into adulthood. Children with ADHD may have trouble paying attention, controlling impulsive behaviors (may act without thinking about what the result will be), or be overly active.

The talented singer and his wife disclosed to the public during a recent interview on Aproko Doctor podcast, that they have been living with the disorder for a very long time.

Eniola revealed that she has been diagnosed with ADHD since she was 19, and that it has affected her during her school years.

“It’s not something you can just cut out. It’s actually who you are. It’s how you think, accept the world, rejection, and everything.

“It was about realizing that all the things that didn’t seem to make sense about me… it affected me in school. My inability to gather thoughts.” She said.

MI Abaga also shared his experience, saying, “For me, my childhood was just that I loved music. It was tough for me to read in class, probably because I wasn’t paying attention. If I was really interested in something like art, I would excel really well, while my schoolwork was suffering for it.”

He went on to say that he didn’t connect the dots until he was in college and realized that ADHD was a part of his journey in life.

“By the time I went to college, I figured out that the ADHD thing was me and I still couldn’t connect the two dots together. I think the first time that I really got a sense of how much it can control a person was in our relationship, when Eni would explain.

“And I googled it and it was almost like a weight off my shoulder. I can look back at some of those things differently now that it was always going to be part of my journey in life.

“To me, it’s both the thing that has given me so much, because it is where I go to like create, and at the same time, it’s the part of me that I want to understand the most,” he said.