[10] He began his formal education at the Ojoto Central Primary School and later entered an apprenticeship to learn the trade of auto spare parts.

However, after completing the six-year apprenticeship, his master was unable to provide him with the customary seed funding, he then left Nigeria in an attempt to migrate to Europe by road.

Upon returning to Nigeria two years later, following a failed attempt to reach Europe via the trans-Sahara highway, he went to Jos.

There, he began a new two-year apprenticeship in filmmaking under the mentorship of Sani Muazu, a lecturer at the Nigerian Film Institute in Jos.

[11][12] Nnaebue's filmmaking career began with his first commercial move False in 2013 which he wrote and directed and won the Golden Icon Academy Award out of three nominations.