Speaking on the secret of marriage, Jacobs said that the major key to any marriage is patience and above all, being friends.

Olu Jacobs is thrilling us with some backstory on how he wooed his lovely wife, Joke Silva, 40 years ago.

The veteran Nollywood actor revealed that it had been love at first sight for him seeing as he fell in love with her that very day.

He said this during a recent interview, addressing allegations that he had stolen his wife from another man, Jacobs revealed that the allegations were false although he admitted to the fact that he had fought hard for her attention until he walked down the aisle.

He said: “I was invited to come and do a play by the national theatre. I was living in England at the time. I was to play lead in Wole Soyinka’s “The trials of Brother Jero”. We were having the production when the door opened and this lady walked in. I said excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, this is the lady I am going to marry.



“You know bodies can attract and bodies can repel. I saw her and I was attracted. I am not an impulsive person. I did not just say come. I had to struggle to get her. She was stunned even though she gave me up and down.”



Speaking on the secret of marriage, Jacobs said that the major key to any marriage is patience and above all, being friends.

He said: “It is the grace of God. And you must learn to be patient and above all, learn to be friends. She is your friend, your lover; she is not your slave. You don’t do that to a woman. You don’t intimidate her. If she is your friend, you will be tender. When a friend is involved you are tender.”



On celebrity marriage hitting the rocks and making a good home against all odds, Olu Jacobs disclosed that: “It is virtually in all professions, in all offices where ever you have women and men together. Even if you don’t hear it, we have a lot of divorces in all other sectors. For the fact that you don’t hear it in other sectors like banking or in the oil sector, as oily as it is, does not mean it is not happening. It is in all offices where we have men and women.”


Olu Jacobs and Joke Silva have come to be the leading example of a working celebrity marriage in Nigeria.

More grease!


Source: http://ayohinfo.com/olu-jacobs-veteran-actor-says-it-was-love-at-first-sight-for-him/

That was definitely before the advent of the Internet and indomie that disrupted the status quo perhaps, people then(1900-1990 later times became more unpredictable) we're very very fortunate with the location of their mates cos things then we're done in a more humane/courteous manner, girls dresses more decently,men were more shy,families were close-knit, no fakeness nor pretense, just virgins and home breeds with cultural orientations full every where.

Contrast it with what we see today, reverse is the case as more girls has learn to fake everything about them men included, just to appeal to the member of the opposite sex.

What we see today are girls struggling for Facebook likes to boost their self-esteem/ego than going out there and learning practical ways of human interaction.

As a result, at the slightest issue/quarrel u see them(Either sexes) calling it quits rather than work out their differences due to the effect of over exposure to social media where they aren't told tins the way they are as they have grow to enjoy being pampered with 'Likes' and "comments" from strangers they hadn't met in real life. More so, more exposure to Telemundos has had its toll on how girls of recent generation has perceived marriage;as something rosy than full of uncertainties.

Thereby plunging them in a cesspool of crashed expectations as they always later comes to realize than marriage is not like in the movies which always ends with 'they lived happily ever after' kinda theme.

Some nowadays, just check their FB profile nor Instagram, you will see "2000 friends" when he or she hasn't met nor interacted with more than 10 persons from the list in real life perhaps, will always be seen struggling even to solve a problem of N10,000 when he/she has more than 2000 as friends on his/her handle. Sadly, this is a generation we have come to see ourselves.