Hamzat, RMD, Arinze, Doyle, Darey pay tributes to Olu Jacobs

By Bianca Iboma-Emefu
Actors , producers and other industry stakeholders have described the late thespian, Olu Jacobs as not only an accomplished personality, but also a mentor, teacher and uncompromising professional whose influence extended to generations of performers.
Speaking at his funeral service in Lagos recently, many of those who worked with Jacobs, agreed that his greatest contribution was not the number of memorable characters he played, but the standards he demanded from those who came after him.
To Richard Mofe-Damijo, Jacobs was a “mentor, a friend, a father, a teacher and a colleague all rolled into one. It was on his back that I stood to develop my creative talent....