Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - Popular Nollywood actor, Daniel Etim-Effiong, has revealed that he married his wife, Toyosi, after his ex-girlfriend declined his marriage request.
In a recent conversation with Chude Jideonwo, Etim-Effiong
explained that he wanted to settle down, but his then-girlfriend wasn’t ready.
He stated that he then left South Africa for Nigeria, where
he met his wife, who was the production manager of a project he was also
working on.
Etim-Effiong said, “I think two things came together to
prepare me to marry my wife. At that time in my life, I was tired of dealing
with several relationships. But I had a girlfriend at that time, and I told the
girl that I think I am ready to get married, but she wasn’t ready. We were in
South Africa at the time; she wasn’t a Nigerian woman.
“So, I told her that I wanted to get married, but she wasn’t
ready. She said she had plans to go for graduate school in the United States,
and she didn’t want to, for lack of a better word, be tied. And I was
disappointed like, what is she talking about? We could do so many things
together. At that time, I was ready for marriage. Anyone who was with me at
that time had to answer the question, ‘Do you want to get married?’ Like I did
ask my girlfriend that time, and she declined.
“And then, it coincided with coming back to Nigeria to be on
a project that my wife was the production manager of. We had been talking
before that time, but we met when we both came to Nigeria. It was her first job
in Nigeria when she came back from New York. And then we met, and we started to
talk. I had a long conversation with her. I told her that I really want to get
married, and she said, ‘Let’s do it.'”
Etim-Effiong got married to his wife, Toyosi, in November
2017, a year after they met. The couple welcomed their first child, a baby
girl, in January 2019.
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