{"id":75006,"date":"2025-09-05T14:41:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75006"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:41:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:41:39","slug":"joke-silva-loses-brother-amid-husbands-health-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/05\/joke-silva-loses-brother-amid-husbands-health-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Joke Silva Loses Brother Amid Husband\u2019s Health Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Veteran actress Joke Silva has announced the death of her elder brother, John Olabiyi Silva, aged 72.<\/p>\n<p>In a heartfelt Instagram post on Thursday, August 29, 2025, Silva wrote: \u201cWith acceptance of God\u2019s sovereign will, we announce the call to glory of my dear brother, John Olabiyi Silva, my easy-go-lucky brother. Rest in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fondly called \u201cLong John Silva\u201d and \u201cUncle B\u201d by family and friends, the deceased lived a private life away from the public eye.<\/p>\n<p>His passing, however, has drawn an outpouring of condolences from fans and colleagues of the celebrated actress.<\/p>\n<p>The loss comes as Silva continues to support her husband, veteran actor Olu Jacobs, in his ongoing battle with dementia, underscoring her strength in the face of personal trials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo &nbsp; Veteran actress Joke Silva has announced the death of her elder brother, John Olabiyi Silva, aged 72. In a heartfelt Instagram post on Thursday, August 29, 2025, Silva wrote: \u201cWith acceptance of God\u2019s sovereign will, we announce the call to glory of my dear brother, John Olabiyi Silva, my easy-go-lucky brother. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75008,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75006\/revisions\/75008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}