6 Very Warm and Inspiring Black Love Stories

Ogechi-Ejike-Asiegbu

Ejike & Ogechi Asiegbu

Veteran Nollywood actor Ejike Asiegbu and his wife Ogechi have you been married for 16 years after meeting while co-starring in a movie. The Nigerian film star said it was not easy convincing Ogechi to give him a chance. He tried to get to her through other people, but it wasn’t until he initiated a friendship that he earned a chance to get to know her.

Asiegbu recalled being at a point in his life where he wanted to settle down and was praying and fasting for God to show him his wife, who would love, tolerate, and understand him, and persevere with him as he grew in life.  Around the time of his birthday in 1996, a year into the couple’s relationship, the actor says he got the sign:

“It was going to be my birthday and I had to travel back to be with my sisters, who had made plans to host a party for me. I was to fly ADC. As my fiancée then, she had insisted that if I loved her, I should cancel my trip and celebrate my birthday with her. Reluctantly, I did. But you won’t believe that the plane I was supposed to have flown crashed. That was the ADC plane that crashed in Ejirin on November 7, 1996. That was how she saved my life. I did not need to be convinced any further that she was for me. At that point I did not waste any more time. I went straight to my father and told him I had found a wife.”

Ejike boasts that their 16 years of marriage has been wonderful, and he’s lucky to have Ogechi because she’s everything he wanted in a woman and more. The couple said they deal with their challenges by living up to their promise to make it work at all costs. They have four children.

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