[3] His father, former Lt. Col. Moses Effiong was granted official presidential pardon by the Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari alongside five others sentenced to life imprisonment in 1986 after the allegedly failed Vatsa Coup during the Ibrahim Babangida regime on charges of treason concealment against the regime and released in 1993 but without official proclamation and restoration of ranks and entitlements.

He thereafter proceeded to the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, where he studied and obtained a first degree in chemical engineering.

[5] In 2017, he directed a five-minute-long short film titled Prey, which was produced by his newly wedded wife, Toyosi, featuring Tope Tedela and Odenike Odetola.

[7] He featured alongside Kenyan actresses Sarah Hassan and Catherine Kamau Karanja in the 2019 comedy movie, Plan B where he played Dele Coker, a Nigerian CEO of a Nairobi-based company.

[12] He was featured alongside Ike Onyema and Atteh 'SirDee' Daniel in the short film Storm, produced by Diane Russet and directed by Michael 'AMA Psalmist' Akinrogunde.