Nneka Isaac-Moses, the TV host and wife of Isaac Moses,, has recalled the early days of their relationship when her husband could not afford to take her to a classy restaurant.
The couple, who rose to fame in the late 1990s on the award-winning cultural television show Goge Africa, recently appeared as guests on the Honest Bunch podcast.
During the interview, Nneka shared fond memories of their time together, including nights out at clubs and motorcycle rides.
“He would always take me to clubs. We will dance. We would go on an Okada,” she said.
She also reminisced about their first date, which did not go quite as she had expected.
The media personality said after dressing up beautifully for what she assumed would be an evening of fine dining she discovered that Isaac could not afford a standard restaurant so he took her to an Amala joint on their first date.
“You know he did not have a car. I told my friends that ‘the stupid guy wants dinner, so we are going’. And I dressed, wore heels that I, you know, dressed sharp for dinner on our first date. And I was actually considering him because he has this nice baritone,” she said.
“I now accepted. You know where this guy took me? Amala Shitta. You see the level? You see where he kept me?
“So we went to Amala Shitta. He stopped. The taxi dropped us, and then he came down.
“So, I thought I would wait for him to go do whatever while we proceed to Victoria Island. To fine dining. And then he came down.
“He said come down now. So casually, he turned and he is walking away and he is expecting me to follow him. And the taxi man is like, ‘Sisi, you go down, I want to go’.
“I came down, and I followed him. And then he walked into one restaurant like that, and then he queued up, and then he took a plate, and he turned around and said, ‘Take a plate. Pick one’.
“When I picked a plate, he looked around and said. Take a bigger one.
“I just said in my heart, ‘I’ll take it but you’ll never see me again. I took a bigger one, and then he added, I will buy you a turkey. The turkeys here are big.
“It is actually romantic because on that particular date, he could not buy a turkey for himself. What happened? He didn’t have enough money.”
The couple met in 1996 and went on to marry in October 1997.
Source: The Cable
