“The durability of a product is dependent on the manufacturers’ choice of materials used for that production. WHAT ARE YOU MADE OF?” – Aghogho Okundalaiye
Aghogho Okundalaiye, also known as Aghogho Okun is a multi-talented lady who is a gospel artiste, fabrics entrepreneur and during 2020′ COVID-19 lock down, she honed her acting skills through her comedy skits with her husband. She is from Delta State, South South region of Nigeria and enjoys praising God in her local dialect: Urhobo.
In her words, “when I sing in my language, it sweetens me, it resonates. When I sing it in English, it is too ‘light’. It does not… ‘the thing no dey do well, e dey be like say dem dey scratch surface’ (I can’t express myself fully). But when I sing in my dialect, it’s like I am communing with my Maker. I am communing with Him. The Bible says, “deep calleth unto deep”, I am communing with my Maker.”
She is a Praise Leader and a member of Daystar Christian Centre Choir. In 2019, she released her debut album: Jiruvwe.
Recently she shared her fertility experience. According to her,” It is the side of God that you have seen that you can boast of. It is the side of God that you have seen that you can brag of…He is the Tears Wiper, He is the Womb Opener, He changed my story. Everybody was calling me, ‘Aghogho come here’, but when God changed the story, they say, ‘Mummy Ire, how are you?’ He changed my story. This God can do and undo, better don’t underestimate God. Do not underestimate God…When I just got married, I didn’t know that I was pregnant. That was how they told me…I was ill, I was spotting. My husband said we should go to the hospital. I don’t like taking drugs.
So I went, when I got there, they said, ‘because you are married, we need to run a test.’ When they ran the test, they said, ‘I was pregnant.’
Thank You Jesus! ‘Abi’
That’s how because of irregularities in (my) period, they said, ‘you have to do a scan because we don’t know how the pregnancy is and we need to know.’
By the time we got to (the) scan (centre), the Doctor would put the thing and would look at me, would look at the screen, look at me again.
He now told me, ‘were you spotting?’
‘Me, sharp girl’: I said, No. It’s a lie ooo, I was spotting.
He said, ‘No, it’s impossible. You are supposed to be spotting because there was a foetus. There is no more baby here. The baby is dead.’
I was like ‘dead!’
My husband just got angry. Thank God for a blessed, spiritually filled husband, he just said, ‘Doctor, the most important thing you said here was that there was a pregnancy, there was a baby.
Baby, get up, wear your cloth, let’s go.’
As I am talking to you, the baby (that was dead in the womb), that we are talking is 6 years old. God raised a dead foetus in my womb, brought her to life.
Tell me, what can’t this God do. The One who can raise the dead… Don’t underestimate God, just praise Him and leave the rest for God because He is ‘mouthed.’
She is a graduate of Sociology and Anthropology from Obafemi Awolowo University and is married to Ayodele Okundalaiye who is a graduate of Accounting and Data Processing from University of Ilorin. Their union is blessed with three adorable children.
Sources: Tope Alabi Online, Ayodele Okundalaiye Page, Agoghookun Page, Henotace Online.
