Nigerian actress and director, Joke Silva, has lost her mother, Dr Marienne Abimbola Silva to the cold hands of death. She was 89 years old.
The deceased, who died peacefully on Sunday morning July 19th, was the third female doctor in Nigeria but the first Nigerian female to bag a medical degree. She became an OON (Officer of the Order of the Niger) in 1979.
She's survived by her children and grandchildren.