CELEBRITY BIRTHDAY: HALIMA ABUBAKAR

Hip Hip Hooray! Today (June 12) is the birthday of popular Nollywood actress, Halima Abubakar. She is from Kogi State (Nigeria). She attended Bayero University, Kano, where she studied Sociology. She got her first role in a Nollywood movie in 2001. Some of her movies are Slip of Fate, Tears of a Child, Secret Shadows, Gangster Paradise, and Area Mama. In 2011, she won the award for Best Actress, at the Afro Hollywood Awards.