Nollywood veteran Joke Silva has explained why she did not take her husband, actor Olu Jacobs’ surname, after they got married.
She shared that it was her husband who advised her to retain her maiden name in order to maintain her professional identity.
The 62-year-old actress disclosed this while featuring in a recent episode of the Leadership podcast hosted by Stephen Akintayo.
The host asked: “Is there a reason you didn’t change your last name after getting married?”
Silva replied:
“He [Olu Jacobs] was the one who actually advised that I don’t. Because he understood the importance of branding. He was like, my brand has started building as Joke Silva and changing brands several years after one has been using that brand, as far as he was concerned, could cause problems for me.
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“So, we kept the name Joke Silva as the brand but within the circles, there was nobody who didn’t know I was Mrs Jacobs. It [changing last name] really didn’t matter.”
Legendary Nigerian comedian Atunyota Alleluya Akpobome, aka Ali Baba, says he has met the wives of people he knows in compromising positions with powerful people, including Governors.
The stand-up comedy royalty made the revelation while appearing as a guest on the latest episode of the Outside the Box podcast.
He detailed his experience, drawing attention to the unscrupulous activities that go on behind the closed doors of society’s rich and powerful.
The comedian recounts a particular time when he met the wife of someone he knew at the governor’s house. He was having a meeting. He said the woman had walked out of the bedroom, but the governor had told her to return inside as he was not done with her.
Alibaba added that when he met the woman alongside her husband later, after their encounter at the Governor’s house, he acted like he hadn’t seen her in years. This reaction was well appreciated by the woman, who thanked him when it was just the two of them.
