Celebrity Couple: Joke Silva And Olu Jacobs Are Proof That Indeed True Love Exists


The much revered Nollywood couple, Joke Silva and Olu Jacobs have been role models TO younger couples within and outside the entertainment industry and they have been together for over 30 years.

They have proven beyond any doubt that the failure in most celebrity marriages had nothing to do with being on the TV screen and public eye but heavily dependent on the individuals involved.
The couple met in 1981 at the National Theatre, Lagos during the 21st Independence anniversary.

Silva is Director of Studies at the Lufodo Academy of Performing Arts, while her husband chairs it. Lufodo Academy is one of several assets the couple own as part of the Lufodo Group, including Lufodo Productions, Lufodo Consult, and Lufodo Distribution. Silva has curated for the Bank of Industry (BOI) in Theatre, Film, Documentary and Poetry and the 2012 London Olympics, and is also the pioneer managing director of Malete Film Village, in association with Kwara State University.

Olu Jacobs once was asked why his wife still bears her maiden name and he answered,
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 stuffs. When she is working, she is Joke Silva but she is Mrs. Joke Jacobs at home.

Photo Credit: Joke Silva

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