Battle Of Chefs… And Fans
CHEF Damilola Adeparasu aka Chef Dammy early Thursday, June 14, 2023, reached the 120-hour mark in the cook-a-thon, which she started on June 9. Unofficially, the Ekiti native has broken the world record, which fellow Nigerian, Hilda Bassey, aka Hilda Baci, snatched from an Indian chef, Lata Tondon, by cooking for about 93 hours, 11 minutes, barely two months ago. Tondon cooked for 87 hours, 45 minutes.
  
Dammy drew a lot of flak from a cross-section of Nigerians who felt irked that Hilda’s then uncertified record by Guinness World Records body (the record was certified on June 13) was yet to get cold before setting out to beat it.
  
The Chef held her Cook-a-thon at her native Ekiti town, unlike Hilda who held hers in Lagos where she got all the attention in the world. That was one of her litany of “crimes” in the eyes of some Nigerians. Others said she was “local” (perhaps because she lives in Ekiti, not Lagos) and a very mean Twitter user actually described her as “dirty” because when she started, she was using some rather old-looking cooking utensils, which of course, were what she had, until a fan or so replaced them according to the update T4T read online. Some folks can be very mean and heartless! Another mob that tore into Dammy did so because she was not as physically endowed as Hilda. That is very true, but then, what have physical endowments got to do with cooking meals? Never knew that for one to train as a chef, she must be pretty with big ‘yansh’ and heavy boobs. Maybe, they train to be the most beautiful girl in Nigeria in cooking schools these days!
  
The silliest argument some of Hilda’s fans put forward against Dammy’s aspiration was the one that Dammy should have waited for some years before attempting to break Hilda’s record and since she failed to do so, that makes her a “copycat.” Why? How? Let us interrogate the copycat argument first. Is the Cook-a-thon idea original to Hilda? Why then was she celebrated for breaking a record instead of setting one? So, if you accuse Dammy of copying Hilda, you should also accuse Hilda of copying the Indian chef too na, abi? Maybe too, Dammy should have chosen carpentry to set her record in instead of cooking, just maybe, and would not have made her a “copycat.”
  As for Dammy’s decision not to wait for Hilda’s record to get cold before undertaking her venture…the Ekiti cook does not owe Hilda or anybody any explanation and, or apologies. Records can be broken simultaneously in a matter of hours, not even days. Records are set so that they can be broken. 
  Cut Dammy some slack, it was never a contest between the two Chefs.
Congratulations to the two daring Nigerian cooks; Hilda and Dammy.

That Hilda Baci’s 80 Million Claim
THE current Guinness World Records holder for the longest cook-a-thon, Nigeria’s Hilda Baci, blew the ceiling off the roof, literally when she revealed during the week that she spent N80m of her “hard-earned” money to organise her cook-a-thon, in Lagos, about two months ago.

N80 million what? 
  T4T was tempted to ask if she cooked to feed the whole of Lagos in the four or so days that the event was held. Young lady, we all know you spent money, but please, do your mathematics well, you nor spend reach N80 million. Yes, you can throw that bogus figure to shore up your image and raise your worth when the endorsement deals will start knocking, but abeg, dat 80 million too much!
  On second thought, maybe Hilda actually bought the venue where the event was held. If that is the case, the money reach dat 80 million be dat.

Apostle Vs ‘Happie Boys’
APOSTLE Chinyere Chibuzor, the General Overseer of the Omega Power Ministries, T4T read in the news, has placed a curse on two young men whom his church gave scholarships to study abroad. 
  
Why would a man of God get so angry and curse some young boys, you would ask?
Well, this is why. A few days ago, the former fast foods outlet security staff, popularly known as “Happie Boys” who were fired for dancing on duty, took to social media to reveal that they were forced to drop out of school after six months when funds from the Apostle stopped coming to them in Cyprus. The duo claimed the man of God abandoned them and getting a job in Cyprus has been very difficult.
  
The Happie Boys took their ingratitude a step further by sharing their private chats with the apostle where they requested money from him several times and he said he was “broke” and on other occasions ignored their messages.
  
And so, apostle come vex, fire dis heavy curse: “I place the curse from the pain in my heart, that doing good becomes evil. You didn’t pay one naira; it is from offerings and tithe dropped on the altar, what other pastors use in buying private jets, I said let me use it to help you, and now I did you good from my heart, and you used evil to pay me.”
  
He was not done yet: “You will remain poor forever, you will never achieve anything in life, irrespective of where you are, you will suffer poverty. If there are clothes I bought for you, you will sell those clothes to feed, you will become so wretched!”
Sebi you see say Man of God really vex abi?
  
Now, this is T4T’s opinion: the two Happie Boys are a bunch of ungrateful louts. Why on earth would they share a private conversation they had with their benefactor who revealed he was broke and could no longer fulfill his obligation to them, an obligation he voluntarily took upon himself? That is the kind of entitlement mentality some people that you assist have. If funds have dried up from the apostle’s end and they could not get jobs to sustain themselves and fund their education, why not quietly come back to Nigeria and rebuild their lives all over again, instead of this cheap attempt to embarrass the preacher?

  As for the preacher, you sef too quick vex fire curses. Haba! What happened to the bible verse that talks about how to manage anger? Yes, the boys nor try, but you as a Man of God suppose try pass dem too an.