Pawpaw finally set to settle down

Osita, thinking about his wedding plans

Phenomenal Nollywood actor, Osita Iheme, famously known as Pawpaw has been quietly crying and eagerly searching for a wife and soul mate. Observably, his search for love became more pronounced in 2012, shortly after his screen twin brother, Chinedu Ikedieze popularly known as Aki exchanged marital vows with his bride, Nneoma Hope Nwaijah, on Friday, December 9, 2011.

By 2013, more verve was added to his ‘rummaging’, as he willfully took his supplications to God and further made his desires public. “I would like to settle down this year (2013) with my missing rib. But the challenge is that I do not know whom to marry,” the Nollywood phenomenon disclosed, in an exclusive interview.

However, just as the saying goes; “man proposes, God disposes,’ his cravings for a life partner was one of his 2013 aspirations that didn’t come to pass. Apart from his personal wish to quit bachelorhood, the pressure on the Mbaitoli, Imo State-born star also became much after he finished playing the role of Best Man to his soul mate on December 9 and 10 respectively.

Though he was unable to tie the knot in 2013, either by his own making or by a twist of fate, Pawpaw, by November, 2013, was already sure of his Miss Right, and he did not hide it! At least, for many years after becoming a celebrated thespian, he was romantically linked to a woman.

He exuded so much joy and ended up flaunting his missing rib, Nana Ama, a Ghanaian actress and music writer. Their romantic dalliances and public display of affections were exclusively reported by EE alongside their beach pictures, which also heavily trended on social media

Apparently, as far as Pawpaw is concerned, the search is over; who to marry is no longer a big challenge as he earlier cried out. And expectedly, as EE gathered, machineries are currently in motion to solemnize their union here in Lagos, immediately after the traditional rituals!

“Yes, there is somebody in my life right now. But what I cannot tell you is the exact date we’ll be getting married. What is most important is that we both are happy being together,” the entertainer who was raised in Aba, the commercial nerve centre of Abia State, disclosed to EE with an expression indicating that wedding plans are at the moment ongoing.


But why the choice of marrying a Ghanaian? Why choosing an actress? These and so many other questions popped up when the identity of his alleged wife to be was revealed. Pawpaw clears the air: “I don’t mind the tribe she is from. I don’t have problem with any tribe. I will marry from any tribe God wants me to marry from. I’m turned on by intelligence and Godliness! Beauty doesn’t matter to me. Beauty can fade. Inner beauty doesn’t fade. A God fearing and intelligent woman…the woman that will love me for whom I am,” he earlier disclosed during his courtesy visit to the Isolo corporate head office of Entertainment/Sunday Express.


Iheme further answered questions on the kind of father he would be. “I will be a caring and loving father. I also dream to have twins. It’s always everybody’s dream. I love twins so much. I don’t know why, maybe I just like that combination. I don’t know how many children I will have. God will guide and give me how many He desires for me. Some people want five and they end up having what they didn’t plan to have. That is why I chose to leave everything in God’s hands,” he said.


In a bid to know who really the Ghanaian actress, Nana Ama is, Entertainment Express took out time to search her out.


Our investigations revealed that the entertainer was born in Kumasi, Ghana, on August 17, 1974. Her mother, Cecilia Agyenim Boateng, and her father Kwabena Nkrumah, divorced when she was very young.

With her father gone and her mother unable to take care of her and her six other siblings, Nana together with her siblings were adopted by Kofi McBrown, a reason she considers her childhood to have been difficult.


While many Nigerians, especially the numerous fans of the actor, are earnestly anticipating his wedding bell, which would expectedly chime in few months time, there are indications that the wealthy actor who was decorated with the national honour of MFR in 2012 by President Goodluck Jonathan will be opting for a secret wedding.


Iheme, the last in a family of five, four boys and a girl, rose to prominence with his wondrous role as Pawpaw in the monster hit movie-Aki na Ukwa, in 2003. Among so many other honours, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 at the African Movie Academy Awards, and has since been considered to be one of Nigeria's most famous actors. We would definitely keep you posted as the wedding plan unfurls.