Hephzibah's Diary

Femi shared a testimony in church, of cheating in an examination hall. So, was he thanking God for not getting caught while cheating? Ade was promoted at work based on a shady deal and he came to church to appreciate God for his promotion. Samuel stole money and he came to church to testify that God provided for him. Sandra sold her body to get a job and testify that God did it.

Few weeks ago, a friend of mine,  Rukky Okoro  wanted to celebrate her birthday so we ( Fasogbon Bukola  and I) decided to go to the market with her to get some ingredients for cooking so as so make the celebration plum. Before we left the house, I decided to go along with some money to buy attachment to complete a braided wig that I was making. When we got to the market, I started seeing so many things I was in need of and I started thinking of spending the money with me on them. When I saw snacks, I felt like buying, when I saw phone pouch I felt like changing the one I was using. When I saw earpiece, I immediately remembered that my earpiece just spoilt and I needed another. In fact, it got to an extent that I saw pretty bags and couldn't withstand not going to the bag stands. I almost used the money meant for attachment to get something else. It was that bad that Rukky Okoro had to start singing " Shalewa, Don't be distracted" in my ears. When I didn't heed,...

Hephzibah's Dairy The picture above depicts the kind of expression most of us had when we saw the video of the NDDC officer that fainted during corruption probe in the parliament. That incident has led a lot of us to say many things about Nigeria. Things like; "Nigeria is corrupt, kai" "I am tired of this country, somebody should come and carry me away" "We have bad leaders, they are all thieves" bla bla bla... But really, aren't we all corrupt? Excuse me sir/ma, the job you got now, how did you get it? Was the process transparent? Didn't you bribe your way through?  Oh, is it only our leaders that are corrupt? A lot of people that are using PHCN meters have devised ways to hack the meters and people who are yet to get prepaid meters have simply removed cables from their meters; practicing short-circuiting. And these are the first set of people that will throw stones at public office holders. When I was growing up...