Lasun Alagbe
It is a special Boxing Day for star actress and her fans as she has done what many of them have been expecting for long.
She has, with style, revealed the love of her life to be Fidelis Anosike, Publisher of Daily Times.
The 1975-born actress, who has distinguished herself in many films, has been one of the Nollywood’s most eligibles when it comes to marriage.
She has had one or two tries but had to relax when, it is believed, that she had not really got the best she deserves.
On Saturday, however, her season’s greetings to her fans is with a bang: loving photos showing she and Anosike.
No photoshopping!
A writer with a sense of creativity could, therefore, recall that the first movie she acted in is A Time to Kill, but, for the durable screen diva, it is now a time to love.
She shared the photos on her Instagram page to wish her followers a Merry Christmas.
Wearing a matching outfit with her partner, she captions the photos “Merry Christmas” and it also came with “love and kiss emojis”.
Reports say Rita and Fidelis are engaged, with the world waiting for what may pass for Wedding of 2021.
The 2012 winner of the African Movie Academy Award Best Actress in a Leading Role is a member of the Royal Nwaturuocha family of Aboh Mbaise Local Government area in Imo State.
Her Wiki profile shows that she is the youngest of four children.
Her late parents were health care professionals, her father was a medical doctor and mother a nursing officer.
The actress attended the prestigious Federal Government College Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, before heading to the University of Port Harcourt, where she graduated with a BA (Honours) Degree in Theatre Arts in 1999.
Graceful Rita started performing as a child, appearing in school plays and children’s television shows in Imo State.
In 1998, she starred in her first movie, A Time to Kill.
She won the City People Awards in 2004 as the Most Outstanding Actress. She has starred in over 100 Nollywood productions.
On his part, Fidelis Anosike is the founder of Folio Media Group, a multi-media company which owns Daily Times Nigeria (founded 1926), the country’s oldest and most noteworthy newspaper.
A graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in Creative & Applied Fine Arts from The University of Benin and the OPM Program at Harvard Business School, Anosike, according to his profile, ” was ready to tackle the mountainous task of turning around the near-century-old newspaper. In 2009, Folio sought to create a distribution that would serve the entire length and breadth of Nigeria, with a goal to deploy 50,000 points of sale across the country to restore Daily Times to its former glory.”
