Glover Memorial Hall Should Be Renamed Olu Jacobs Memorial Hall

Glover Memorial Hall Should Be Renamed Olu Jacobs Memorial Hall in memorial tribute to the great Nigerian actor, Oludotun Baiyewu Jacobs, MFR  (11 July 1942 – 16 September 2026).

He deserves the honour for his outstanding legacy in the history of Nigerian film industry.

He had an illustrious career as an accomplished actor in England before returning to Nigeria to contribute to the advancement of Nigerian cinema and became one of the founding fathers of the phenomenal Nollywood, the largest film industry in Africa.

In 2007, Jacobs won the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) for Best Actor in a Leading Role.He received the Industry Merit Award for outstanding achievements in acting at the 2013 Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards (AMVCA) and the MAA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. He was conferred the national honour of Member of the Order of the Federal Republic in 2011 by former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR.

See his biography on 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Jacobs

The colonial era of the Glover Memorial Hall named in honour of Sir John Hawley Glover, who served as the Governor of the Lagos Colony is gone since the Independence of Nigeria on October 1, 1960.

The Glover Memorial Hall is already under the management of the wife of Olu Jacobs, veteran actress Mrs. Joke Silva-Jacobs and their Lufodo Academy, keeping its legacy alive with consistent theatrical plays, musical events, and studio sessions.  Therefore, it will be noble for the hall to be renamed the Olu Jacobs Memorial Hall as a monument of his legacy.

- EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima,
The Founder, Publisher/Editor,
NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series,

 

Nollywood Star Olu Jacobs wins life achievement award in Cameroun

Olu Jacobs receiving his award from the administrator and officials of the Écrans Noirs.

Accomplished Nigerian actor and Nollywood star Olu Jacobs was given a standing ovation at the closing ceremony of the 15th Écrans Noirs Film Festival, Saturday night of June 25, 2011 in Yaoundé, Cameroun. He was greeted with applause by the ecstatic audience as he mounted the stage to receive the Prix Charles Mensah (Ecran d’Honneur) for his outstanding life achievement as an actor of local and international success, especially for the great impact of Nollywood in Africa.


Olu Jacobs thanking the the administrator, officials and the audience at the 15th Écrans Noirs.

"African cinema and its actors" the theme of 15th edition of the Écrans noirs was a noble tribute to those who work in the continent to advance the seventh art according to the administrator Bassek Ba Kobhio. It attracted thousands of people from June 18-25, 2011.

Present at the closing ceremony were Nigerian filmmaker Chike Ibekwe who was a co-winner of the best film prize at the 14th Écrans Noirs and one of the appointed presidents of the jury in 2011 and Mr. Madu Chikwendu, Regional Secretary of the Pan-African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI), co-founder and member of the Board of Trustees of Association of Nollywood Core Producers (ANCOP), and the sole Nigerian representative in the International Federation of Film Producers (FIAPF).

Click here for details of the film festival.


~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima