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Sunday, 9 February 2014

'We get mad at each other 10 times a day’- Olu and Joke Jacobs


Mr. Olu Jacobs and his wife, Joke, are top artistes. Inside their home, it is not all the time a bed of roses.  They share their happy and challenging times in this piece.

Marriage has been good, it has been wonderful.

How I met my husband
I met him at the National Theatre while we were rehearsing for Jero’s Metamorphosis by Professor Wole Soyinka in 1981. I was to play Sister Rubeka  and he was playing the role of Prophet Jero and, at the same time co-directing the play. That was where we met.

What happened when I met him
People  had been talking about him before I arrived the country because he was based in the UK at that time.  Everybody was talking about him, especially Miss Ene, the then Artistic Director of the National Theatre and Dr. Ashiwaju. They had met in England and I guess he would have been the Chiwetel Ejiofor of
that time. Just as what Chiwetel is to this present generation, so he was then.

He was one of the top African actors in England at that time, whether on stage or on screen. He was the talk of the town. So, I was looking forward to meeting him; when I finally saw him, he was quite a handsome man. Our first meeting, if I could remember vividly, I went to call Miss Ene to come and watch our rehearsal. They were in a production meeting, and, when I entered the office, the first thing he uttered was, “This is the woman I am going to marry.”

When I left the office, I said to myself, `How can anybody say it just like that?’ He  always insisted that I eyed him every now and then. We started out as very good friends. Four years later  we got married. We met in 1981 and married in 1985.

Courtship before marriage
We started courting before he proposed to me. But the proposal came after four years of our courtship. He proposed to me in Tunisia while he was on a movie set called, ‘The Pirate’, directed by Roman Polansky. I was in a drama school in London. So, I visited him briefly in Tunisia to spend some time with him, and later flew back to England. We have been married for 28 years now.

The New Tactics of Big Prostitutés In Abuja

 
Desperate commercial séx workers develop new strategies to beat directives of the Federal Capital Territory administration on their illicit operation in the city centre, Punch's Olalekan Adetayo writes.
For a civil servant who recently transferred to Abuja from Ondo State, a dating site, Badoo, is handy for him when he needs female companions. He adds, “What I normally do is to launch my Badoo wherever I am. Whether I am drinking in a garden or visiting friends, once I launch it, my handset will show me ladies who are on Badoo within that vicinity. It will bring out their pictures and we will begin chatting. Anyone I decide to invite will be with me within 10 minutes because of her proximity.” 
He notes that while some of the “online prostitutés” will prefer to negotiate their price via online, others prefer the face-to-face negotiation, perhaps with some bottles of drinks to spice up the moment.
Like every other urban settlements, the FCT is having its fair share of the activities of séx workers. Once upon a time, these women of easy virtue draped in their skimpy dresses, dotted every major road and hotel in the nation’s capital.

Two women caught after making children beg with fake wounds in Lagos (PHOTOS)

 
The two women were arrested at Ajose Adeogun Street, Victoria Island recently while begging with two kids, aged six and nine years. The stomach and legs of the kids were plastered with ointment and wool to give the impression that they were suffering from serious burns to attract public sympathy.

An Environmentalist, Betty Albert, was driving by and saw the gory sight of the nine-year old boy lying on the ground and decided to assist the victim.

She parked her car and came out and told Chioma that she should be allowed to take the boy to the hospital. On hearing this, Chioma asked the boy to run away which he did, but unfortunately, he was caught by a policeman who was on duty nearby.

The Environmentalist asked the policeman to chase after the boy and he was caught and brought back to the scene.
“I asked the boy whether something was wrong with him and he said he was okay. I asked him whether I could remove the plasters and wool on his stomach and he said yes. So I removed them and found out that the boy was alright.

Give Me Big Money, I'm Ready To Act Nudé ––Actress Chelsie

Nollywood actress Chelsie Edogun is one of the hottest babes in the movie industry at the moment. If you’ve seen the movie titled ‘Before Christmas’ she featured in recently, you would agree that Chelsie is an actress who doesn’t give a damn so long as she interprets her roles well.
She started acting in 2006 while she was at Delta State university but came into professional acting in 2012. Her latest movies include ‘Body Odour’, ‘Before Christmas’, ‘After Christmas’, among others.

This babe who is also called Cheledon tells Adaeze Amos all about herself, not concealing any...