See The Things You Don’t know About Veteran Actor Emeka Ike

Emeka Ike is a Nigerian actor. He was born on 22 March 1967 in Lagos, Nigeria.

Emeka Ike is one of the prolific actors who is known for his roles as playboy or Casanova in Nollywood movies.

He also has been tagged as one of Nollywood’s ‘Bad boys’ due to playing movie roles of a man who gets physical, abuses women. Emeka Ike studied mechanical engineering at the University in Lagos, but he had a burning passion for acting. His first major role was in the movie ‘Deadly Affair’ in 1987.

Emeka Ike Age

He was born on 22 March 1967 in Lagos, Nigeria. He is 51 years old as of 2018.

Emeka Ike and Family – Emeka Ike children

He is the son of Elder Ike (father) Nicolas Ike (mother). His father was a pastor before he became late. Emeka was married to a beautiful half-Dutch half-Nigerian wife for 17 years. He has four children; three sons and one daughter.

Emeka Ike Marriage – Emeka Ike Wife – Emeka Ike Wedding

Emeka Ike was married to Suzanne Emma in 2000 but the two divorced in 2017. The couple had been married for 17 years. A Lagos Island Customary Court, South West Nigeria dissolved their 17 year-old marriage.

The three-man panel presided over by Chief Awo Awosola, dissolved the marriage in a judgment following a petition filed by Suzanne. Other members of the panel of judges were: Mrs. Opeyemi Olanrewaju and Mr Kehinde Jacob Olayinka.

“From all evidence before the court, the marriage between the couple had broken down, and it is irreconcilable, consequently, the marriage is hereby dissolved”, said the court.

The court granted Emeka the custody of the four children, but ordered that Suzanne should be granted unhindered access to them. Either Suzanne or Emeka Ike has 30 days to appeal. The court also received a photocopy of a bank draft of N300 dated July 20, 2016, which the Suzanne used in refunding the bride price, paid to her family during their marriage.

Emeka Ike Photo

Suzanne in the petition filed before the court accused Emeka of incessant beating, molestation, and torture, which she said she could no longer endure. But Emeka in his response denied beating, molesting or torturing his wife. He urged the court not to dissolve the marriage. He also informed the court that his wife had moved out of their matrimonial home five times without any reason. He also told the court that the only time ‘devil’ entered their marriage, was when his wife paid for the children’s school fees.

Chika Ike and Emeka Ike – Is Chika Ike And Emeka Ike Related?

Emeka Ike is of Igbo origin from Imo State. He is the son to Mr and Mrs Nicolas Ike and his father was a pastor before he died. Chika Ike was born in Onitsha, Anambra State but was brought up in Lagos. Therefore Emeka Ike and Chika Ike are neither brother and sister nor closely related.

Emeka Ike Movies

He has acted in over 60 Nollywood movies among them;

2016 Marry Who You Love
2016 Golden Love
2014 Secret Act
2014 Secret Weapon
2013 Stigma
2012 Housemates
2011 Jewels of the Sun
2011 Jewels of the Sun 2
2009 Heat of the Moment
2009 Heat of the Moment 2
2009 Hot Island

2009 Hot Island 2
2009 Love, Lies and Murder
2009 Love, Lies and Murder 2
2009 My Last Wedding
2009 My Last Wedding 2
2008 A Can of Worms
2008 A Can of Worms 2
2008 After My Heart

2008 After My Heart 2
2008 After My Heart 3
2008 After My Heart 4
2008 Heavy Battle
2008 Heavy Battle 2
2008 Piece of My Soul
2008 Piece of My Soul 2
2008 Piece of My Soul 3
2008 Test Your Heart
2008 Test Your Heart 2

Emeka Ike Celebrates His South African Girlfriend, Yolanda Pfeiffer’s Birthday In Grand Style

Updated: 15 Mar 2018

Nollywood actor, Emeka Ike, has kind of been silent for a while and that is because he has been very busy with other things including his family.

The actor unknown to many has found new lover who has been helping in taking care of his kids and the home in general.

Emeka has been very happy knowing that his woman is not just pretty but is loved by the kids and they have been happy together for a while now.

He is a man of few words and as such could not talk much but to appreciate God for giving him such a pretty lady for a wife as she turns a year older.

Emeka Ike Interview

Interviewer: You seem to be taking a break from acting. Why ?

Emeka Ike: It’s not only me you don’t see in movies these days. You don’t see other big names as well. You don’t see all of us the way you used to see us then. We aren’t as current and regular as before. This is because lately, a problem I have been lamenting over has sent everybody back to the drawing board. So, we are all making one movie in a year now. I just made my own movie recently. What they are doing now isn’t the Nollywood l know. Now, they are making a movie and cutting it into 10 parts.

I have so many detractors in the industry and this resulted from my many grouses with some stakeholders. Another problem I have stems from my opposition to the international cable system. I questioned why they should be showing many of our movies without paying us, which is against the UNESCO charter. Contract or no contract, there is a UNESCO charter that mandates them to pay us and we are signatories to it. I’ve been complaining about it before 2009. I have been warning that Nollywood was dying. Now, is Nollywood not dead? Is Idumota open? There’s crisis in the Actors Guild. Why are Pound road and Ebinpejo lane shut down? Where are all those marketing places in Aba where we used to make noises, they are all shut down.

Interviewer: (cuts in) Isn’t that as a result of piracy?

Emeka Ike: It’s not only me you don’t see in movies these days. You don’t see other big names as well. You don’t see all of us the way you used to see us then. We aren’t as current and regular as before. This is because lately, a problem I have been lamenting over has sent everybody back to the drawing board. So, we are all making one movie in a year now. I just made my own movie recently. What they are doing now isn’t the Nollywood l know. Now, they are making a movie and cutting it into 10 parts.

I have so many detractors in the industry and this resulted from my many grouses with some stakeholders. Another problem I have stems from my opposition to the international cable system. I questioned why they should be showing many of our movies without paying us, which is against the UNESCO charter.

Contract or no contract, there is a UNESCO charter that mandates them to pay us and we are signatories to it. I’ve been complaining about it before 2009. I have been warning that Nollywood was dying. Now, is Nollywood not dead? Is Idumota open? There’s crisis in the Actors Guild. Why are Pound road and Ebinpejo lane shut down? Where are all those marketing places in Aba where we used to make noises, they are all shut down.

Interviewer: (cuts in) Isn’t that as a result of piracy?

Emeka Ike: No. Were you not there when the former Censors Board chairman, Emeka Mba, which you have made your NBC chairman now, stood up and said if you don’t pay me N5.5m don’t release any movie?

The marketers supported him and arrested everybody and that pushed everybody out of the market. DSTV and HITV were reigning and they were pushing for these television stations to be the most watched, so that Nollywood could go under and everyone watching Nollywood could then watch the movies on the cable. That was the trick, the game plan, but I stood up against that and they went around and started using divide and rule.

Some actors would talk both left and right.

“Emeka Ike says TV stations are not honoring our rights” and some actors would go behind to the stations to say “no you are the best. These TV stations are doing us proud”, when the stations have not been paying them entitlements. Such entitlements should be enjoyed by their children’s children even when they are gone. That’s the crisis and they began to turn other colleagues against me. Anyone that is fighting Emeka Ike among other actors would be given free publicity.

They would sponsor the person and give him or her heavy money, because Emeka Ike wants them out of business and they don’t want to stop the multi-billion Naira business. It’s like I