I Proposed To My Wife Over The Phone – Lateef Adedimeji

Nollywood actor, Lateef Adedimeji has come out to recount how he proposed to his wife, Mo Bimpe after just three months of dating.

He recently had his say while speaking during his interview with Chude Jideonwo, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he actually proposed to her over the phone, and his wife didn’t even take him seriously until they went to see her father.

Lateef added that his wife initially said she couldn’t marry a Muslim, but she did eventually.

His words, “I called her and told her I wanted to ask her something, then I told her I wanted to marry her. She was just joking, like, ‘What is doing this one? Get out! I can’t marry a Muslim; are you okay? My daddy won’t even hear that.’

Then I told her that we’d go see her dad, and I’d speak to him and calm him down. So we went to her village during one of their festivals, and towards the end, I asked to see her dad. I promised him that I’d take care of his daughter, and he said he’d pray and get back to me, and that was it.

The proposal wasn’t planned because we just dated for like three months and then we got married.”

WOW.

Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.

The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.

Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.