Background
Eze was born to Nigerian parents, Daniel and Rebecca, who are Igbo and devout Catholics. He was born in Agbokete, in what was Northern Region of Nigeria. Because of his parents' ethnicity and religion they fled the North during the Nigerian Civil War to Nsukka, in the eastern part of the country.
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