Ada Afoluwake Ogunkeye (born 25 November 1986) known professionally as Folu Storms, is a Nigerian media personality and actress.
Early life Storms was born in Aguda, Surulere, Lagos state. She attended primary school at Corona VI, then had her secondary education first at The Lagoon Secondary School, then St Leonards Mayfield in the UK and then proceeded to Aberystwyth University where she studied for a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) between 2005 and 2008. Storms later enrolled at the University of Bristol for her Master of Laws (LLM) in 2009. Storms has a diploma in Broadcast Journalism from Pan-African University.
Career
Radio and NdaniTV
Storms began to work as a lawyer, before she started with the radio station 92.3 Inspiration fm in 2012. She competed for the MTV Base Africa's VJ search and she was one of the three finalists. Storms was later hired by the Nigerian company Ndani TV as a presenter and content producer where she produced The New Africa documentary which was nominated for best documentary award at the 2016 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards. She co-hosted the Breakfast show at Smooth 98.1FM in Lagos and was still doing this in 2019.
Storms won the 2017 Ebony Life TV Sisterhood Awards for TV Personality of the Year the 2018 On-Air Personality award for the Future awards and ELOY Awards.
MTV Shuga Alone Together The role of "Sope" was included when it went into a mini-series titled MTV Shuga Alone Together highlighting the problems of Coronavirus in April 2020. The series was written by Tunde Aladese and broadcast every night - its backers include the World Health Organization. The series was based in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Côte d'Ivoire and the story progresses using online conversations on location between the characters. All of the makeup and filming was done by the actors who include Lerato Walaza, Mamarumo Marokane, and Jemima Osunde.
Filmography YearNameRoleNotesRef2016The New Africa DocumentaryProducerWon best documentary award at the AMVCA2019MTV ShugaSopePlayed alongside Osas IghodaroMan of Her DreamsLadiWebseriesRule Number 1Showing on Showmax2019-20UnmarriedKamsiAfrica Magic original alongside Venita Akpofure and Enado Odigie2020MTV Shuga Alone TogetherSopeOnline miniseries highlighting the problems of the COVID-19 pandemicThe Men's Club (Season 3)TonyeReplaced Segilola Ogidan2021Price of AdmissionShort film starring BrymoCharge and Bail2022Crime and Justice LagosKelechi FarasinCake2025Baby FarmNetflix seriesRed Circle
Awards and nominations YearEventAwardResultRef2016 Africa Magic Viewers Choice AwardsBest Documentary2017Ebony Life TV Sisterhood Awards TV Personality of the Year2018Future awardsOn-Air Personality ELOY Awards
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