He came into prominence for his role in the popular Nigerian Television Authority TV-series The Village Headmaster and the film adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s book Things Fall Apart.He won Best Actor award at the 9th Africa Movie Academy Awards posthumously for his role in Assassins Practice and was also honored as the inaugural recipient of the “Goodluck Jonathan Lifetime Achievement Award” at the 2013 Nollywood Movies Awards. The Nigerian government honored him with several National honors with the highest being an Officer of the Order of the Niger, OON for his contribution to the development of Film-Making in Nigeria.