I’m sure you’ve heard about Pastor Jerry Eze’s Foundation giving out $720,000 to 240 young entrepreneurs.
God bless him for that. I love and respect the man.
But here’s a lesson some churchgoers need to sit with.
When it was time to select who got the money, Pastor Jerry, the same man who preaches miracles and unmerited favor, hired KPMG, one of the world’s top consulting firms, to go through the applications and find the most qualified candidates.
The criteria did not include:
Who speaks in tongues the longest.
Who pays the highest tithes.
Who bought the oil of prosperity last Sunday.
Who fasted seven days for divine favor.
Who shouts “fire” the loudest during deliverance.
He hired KPMG. Not a prophet. Not an usher. Not his most loyal church member. A firm that evaluates business structure, financial records, turnover, industry viability, and legal registration.
Dedicated tongue-talker with no business records? Nothing for you.
Seed-sower who never structured a business? Nothing for you.
Because when real money is on the line, even the pastor plays by business rules.
This is not an attack on faith or those who are devoted to God. It is a call to start separating your devotion from your development. Your pastor is studying balance sheets while teaching you to sow seeds. Study what he does, not just what he says.
Businesses do not grow through tongues. They grow through structure, discipline, and strategy.
Separate your spirituality from your business principles. Both can coexist. But they are not the same tool.
I haven't been on twitter today - but someone brought a few of my old tweets to my attention and I can't not address it.
14 years ago, I was 23, so I was definitely not a child. I'm not here to make excuses because I don't have anything to make excuses for. What I can't let anyone do is twist my story to fit false narratives.
In 2012, I lived and helped out at my mom's daycare while I was hustling my music. I tweeted everything that happened in my life, as we all did at the time. Kids can be mischievous. If a child did something I found funny, I tweeted about it. Kids are cute and lovable. I want to hug, kiss and cuddle them. I tweet about it. Nothing I tweeted was from perversion.
I was not famous, so maybe if I was, I would have understood that anything is open to whatever interpretation including being used falsely by a faceless mob. I've never been depraved in my life. You can retweet all the tweets in the world about me loudly crushing on people I admire/d. Or being a cheeky young woman. I wasn't trying to hide it, because I don't have anything to hide.
My team has been deleting some of my tweets because of how sensitive it is for my family. To be honest, I did not want to. I have always spoken against rape and sexual assault even before you knew I existed. It's not a costume I'm wearing, it's who I am. I've never claimed to be perfect. I've never claimed to know everything. I said stop raping women. I stand by it.
I haven't been on twitter today - but someone brought a few of my old tweets to my attention and I can't not address it.
14 years ago, I was 23, so I was definitely not a child. I'm not here to make excuses because I don't have anything to make excuses for. What I can't let anyone do is twist my story to fit false narratives.
In 2012, I lived and helped out at my mom's daycare while I was hustling my music. I tweeted everything that happened in my life, as we all did at the time. Kids can be mischievous. If a child did something I found funny, I tweeted about it. Kids are cute and lovable. I want to hug, kiss and cuddle them. I tweet about it. Nothing I tweeted was from perversion.
I was not famous, so maybe if I was, I would have understood that anything is open to whatever interpretation including being used falsely by a faceless mob. I've never been depraved in my life. You can retweet all the tweets in the world about me loudly crushing on people I admire/d. Or being a cheeky young woman. I wasn't trying to hide it, because I don't have anything to hide.
My team has been deleting some of my tweets because of how sensitive it is for my family. To be honest, I did not want to. I have always spoken against rape and sexual assault even before you knew I existed. It's not a costume I'm wearing, it's who I am. I've never claimed to be perfect. I've never claimed to know everything. I said stop raping women. I stand by it.
Lie lie....your mum tried to beat you when you had a phone that people were calling and blowing up?
How old were you?
Some of you will do anything to talk down on women, even if you had to brand your mum a liar
Oshisco PLC.
I remember one afternoon when my mum tried to beat me. Out of pure reflex, I dodged and raised my hand to shield my face. In the process, my fingers brushed her face.
She immediately called my uncles and my elder brother and told them I had slapped her. She did this with a very passionate tone.
I didn't know what was happening.
Within minutes, my phone was blowing up, calls from different people, foreign numbers from the US, some I didn’t even know, all at once.
I almost lost my mind that day. My uncle (her brother) in the US called and was screaming "so you want to kill my sister for me"
What saved me was that I’ve always been expressive, articulate, and known for telling the truth.
When I finally spoke and explained myself clearly, people listened. And the truth spoke for itself.
This changed my perspective on a lot of things about women.
Cancel me oh, but the one thing I will never encourage in this world is passive conviction in the face of a “perceived” existential threat.
If I were 230million Nigerians, nobody who campaigned for Tinubu would EVER make a single sale of ANYTHING in this country again. But I’m not, so we meuve!
Everyone is free to make their choices and hold their opinions, but if your choices support the continued (and increasing) extermination of Nigerian lives, then may the Lord oppose me continually, if I ever absolve you of the consequences of that choice for as long as you hold it with your chest.
That’s it! Nobody should gaslight Nigerians abeg.
@UnkleAyo This is not a flex, though. There are no open churches in Saudi Arabia. You are gloating over this because you have turned Christmas to vanity fair and reduce it to a piece of colourful trees.
I agree with this. It's not cute, but sometimes borne out of necessity, and that's why I think adoption is a better option, but cultural people will still argue
@SomiEkhasomhi This is what baffles me most. Why are you more interested in lecturing the victim than calling yourselves to order?
The lecture you're giving me that does not stop the next attack
God, please!
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