Nigerians across all ethnic divides have taken to their various social media accounts to celebrate iconic actor battling with old age disease called dementia, Olu Jacobs on ocassion of his 80th birthday.
Legendary Nollywood Actor Olu Jacobs was born in 1942. He has featured in the British TV series and was relatively the founding fathers of Nigerian Film Industry.
He got married to a Nollywood Actress by name Joke Silva.
When asked why his wife still retain her father’s name instead of his, he responded:
“She is her own individual. When I met her, she was an actress known as Joke Silva, so why should marrying me now deny her and her audience her name? She is Miss Joke Silva who is Mrs. Joke Jacobs. It is as simple as that. People now begin to say what they like. They have even written that we are separated and all sort of stuff. When she is working, she is Joke Silva but she is Mrs. Joke Jacobs at home.”
He was rumored to have died in 2021. His wife debunked the rumour and later disclosed the situation of his health as ‘dementia with Lewy bodies’. He won Lifetime Achievement Award at Afriff held in November, 2021.
