Nollywood actress, Hilda Dokubo was in Lagos recently where she
ministered as a Pastor at the Fresh Oil International Church.
During her
sermon, she revealed some part of her past that may be unknown to many.
While speaking, she said, “I was born with a silver spoon, but death
turned me poverty-stricken after my father died when I was just nine. I
turned away from God at that point, because I felt disappointed that
despite how much my father loved and served God, he still died.”…
She
continued, “After my dad died, my mother completely lost her mind. If
she were living in the US, I’m sure she would have been diagnosed as a
mental case. You know, in Nigeria, we don’t consider people mad until
they have started eating from dustbins. I rebelled against God at that
point, and I stopped going to church at the age of nine.
“However,
I was a very brilliant girl, and I got admission into the university at
the age of 16. I became rascally and did what girls like that do. I
slept with a man, and I became pregnant. It wasn’t the Holy-Spirit that
impregnated me.
My mom was devastated and disappointed in
me because of that. I was also angry with her because ‘her God’ killed
my father, and we stopped speaking to each other. One day, a man came to
me and said he needed a barge. I didn’t know what it was, and he told
me it was used to store oil.
I then recalled that I had
once seen a barge in the compound opposite ours. I went to the neighbour
and told him I needed the barge. He asked me what I needed it for, but I
told him not to worry. I told them to put the barge in front of my
mother’s house. At that point, the man who told me he needed the barge
came back, and dropped sacks of money containing N2m with my mom because
I was in school at that time.
Two weeks later, he
returned with N500,000, and I was dumbfounded. Before then, I had never
seen N100,000 together, but there I was as a millionaire at 17, not
knowing what to do with the money. I would have become a prostitute, but
I became restless and challenged destiny. Your life cannot change for
the better if you don’t challenge destiny. Even God challenged destiny.”