 Yes, yes your blessings go follow you right song for this moment that we're getting into right now because we're all about blessings and yes when I'm talking about blesses and I'm getting a little bit biblical guys you already know what's about to come your way. Blessings will follow you especially after the show because our guest is a leading gospel musician from Nigeria. She was born and raised in emo states in the southeastern part of the country. She was brought up in the Christian faith and are there to Catholic faith which was the denomination our parents belong to. She often attended mass every week in a local Catholic parish as a young girl. The genesis of her journey into the music industry can be traced back to when she was still a little girl. As a young girl she was influenced by a high-life soul, R&B and pop sound. This was made possible by listening to songs by Nigerian and Western music art. However gospel music had a special place in her heart. This was why she signed up for the choir as a teenager. Joining the choir helped improve her vocal prowess and her songwriting skills. Let us welcome the phenomenal, the one and only, the one who is used by God Almighty in heaven. Yes, the sweet, beautiful Dima. Welcome to the show Dima. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. What's the secret of this glow? Don't tell me Jesus. Well, number one. It's Jesus. Right, ask me Jesus. Yeah, number one is Jesus. Yeah, I think, I do, I sing a lot. I think that helps me. Yeah, I love myself. Self-love. Yeah, self-love. I love myself. Yeah. Very important. So speaking of self-love, right, now you're doing something you obviously love so, so much, right? And how does this make you feel knowing that you have achieved something that you always wanted your whole life? Okay, it all started, okay, like you said, I started when I was very young. Okay, this has been my dream. Something took me away at some point. Okay, I went to school, studied and I started to work. Okay, so started to make money. Okay, so that kind of took me away, but I've always wanted to do things. This is me. This is my life. That is what gives me joy. That's where I find fulfillment. Okay, so during the pandemic, okay, we all started to work from home. That gave me time to do what I've always loved to do. I just started by taking out the microphone, not the microphone, waking up at night, when I was lonely, there was lockdown, I couldn't go out. So I would take my phone, make some recordings, post on Facebook. I mean, people were like, oh, come on, you can do this, right? Though at the age of 20, I did my first album. I released my first album titled Sufficient Grace, but I was young, naive. So it was just in my local Catholic church, so it didn't really go far. Though I was on AIT, RSTV, but he ended there. So, but like I said, what? He has absent in the Czechs, yeah, would you say? So like I said, work happened. So pandemic now brought me back to my dream. So I decided to, yeah. Alright, so sorry, I know you have questions for us as well, but the reason I asked that question in particular, because I wanted to see how passionate you would answer me to know if you're actually doing something you wanted to do. And without a doubt, I am convinced. So now that I know, can I hear you as well? Can you just, you know, yeah? Right, you mean it, yeah, I can ask. I already knew that she was going to have some glorious voice, so please, would you want me to sing my song? Your favourite, just sing your favourite song. It could be your favourite, but I would like an original though. Okay, let me do something. I speak English, but I'm able. So people ask me this question, what do you always like to speak? You can teach us, you have a song that you can teach us. You're able, you're able, kind of, yeah. You can back you up. It takes me home. You know, do what we have out this office, now we're here, so you can just... Just a little thought, we need to sing with you. Is it my song or... Original, anything. Original would be better though. Okay, original. Okay, I just, I'm not going to do the Otim Bonobu, which is what we're talking about. So I'm going to do one of my songs, which I am dropping soon. It's the title is Chuku. Chuku. Of course we all know what Chuku is. Chukuwa. Chukuwa. Chukuwa. Chukuwa. Chukuwa. Chukuwa. You can now back me up now. Chukuwa. Chukuwa. Chukuwa. Don't mess it up. Careful. Chukuwa. Chukuwa. That's what they say. Follow me over. That's the way they do it. See, I was called Copina. Chukuwa. Exactly. But you can't see it. I can't. I need to sound like... You know what you did there? Why are you running? Why not? Anyway, you have to understand. Okay, so you said the pandemic was what made you to really... Yeah. ...handle your craft and going, but now the pandemic is over. Okay. We assume it's over of course. So after the pandemic, how have you been able to handle it every time? Of course you've gone back to, you're not working from home again, right? Well, we're still working from home, but we're going back to the office sometime next week. Okay. So going back to the office now, how do you think you'll be able to... I mean, of course you still... You've started down the issue too. You have to be consistent and... Yeah. How do you think you are going to be able to manage everything? Okay. Like I said, this is me. I have found me. All right. Okay. So when I talked about self-love, that's part of it. Okay? Doing what makes you happy. I know this job keeps food on my table. All right? I love it too. But there's something that comes from here. Right? This is kind of food for my spirit, for someone's spirit. Yeah, for my soul, for people's souls. Right? So I plan to do the two. Try. Of course. So find a way. I'll find a way around this. Of course we have weekends. I can go to the studio and do some stuff. If I'm called to sing anywhere, I can always do that. So I'll find a way around it. All right. So there's been a recent debate about polygamy. And we saw it with you, Ladoche, announcing that he has a new family and all of that. And there's this debate like, oh, Christianity is not against polygamy, because this and that. I like you to enlighten us as a Christian. And you know, a believer. Just give us your take. Give us your take on polygamy. Okay. You know, I haven't really made any comments since this whole thing started. Because somewhere in my heart, I kind of have this feeling that this is a prank. I don't know. To be honest with you. But now let's assume it's not a prank. I said it this morning. Yeah, somehow I feel it's a prank. He's trying to get traffic or something. So I don't know. But if it's true, well, well, I'm a Christian. I am a Christian and I'm a free spirit. Right? I'm a free spirit. So I have come out from that, you know, from that space. Shackles of the region. Yeah, exactly. That's what I have come out from there. Where I condemned people. I used to be like that. I mean, I attended a generous way through Reverend Sisters. Right? So it took me time to pull myself out of there. You know, because in that space, I was condemning people. But now Christianity has taught me not to condemn. Okay? I don't know why he did what he did. I am not happy because I am a big fan. Okay? I'm a big fan. Right? I'm not happy about it. But I'm not going to stand here and condemn anyone. You know, you wear your shoes. You know, wear pants. Right? Nobody knows what's going on in his own space. So I don't want to condemn him. Like I said, I still feel it's a prank. But if it's not a prank, I'm not happy. I will be happy. Yeah. You know. At least I admire you take on this one. I feel like, you know, you are quite political and quite freedom. You don't want to react. You don't want to react. Well. Well, you can say that. You start properly on the fence. On the fence. Okay. So tell us. Tell us about Otim Bonobo. That's the pronounciation. Yes. Otim Bonobo. All right. So tell us what does it mean? Okay. Otim Bonobo, people have asked me that question. If you ask me, what is, what's the meaning? I can't, I tell you, Otim Bonobo is kind of a name given to a big God. Right. Yeah. Jesus. You know, given to the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords. So that's what Otim Bonobo means to me. And how did I even, how did this happen? Okay. I was somewhere in February. Yeah. At Echo Hotel, we were having a budget, quarterly budget defense. So yeah. And I went to bed and at 2 AM, I heard this voice. That was how this came, right? I heard this thing. Oh. I picked up my phone, like I said, chupo. You heard it in your head? Yeah, in my, was in my subconscious or in my dream. Or with a chance? You can't explain it. Exactly, I can't explain. explain so I picked up my phone at 2am and I recorded it. Now remember I already had recorded Chuku and I had already told my fans that Chuku was going to drop but for some reason I had to drop this one because it kind of tells my story. Okay so my story in 2020 was given just an hour to leave. Okay so that gave birth to Otimu no. So I just recorded Chuku and I was planning to do the video of Chuku when I took ill all right so I was taken to the hospital and I had the fibroid surgery done and which turned sour you know so I had a ruptured intestine the next day I was vomitting feces from a mouth yeah bile ruptured so I was being moved from one hospital to another hospitals were rejecting me so it was when we got to the third hospital military hospital that they said to my sister take her home she's got just but she got barely one hour right at this time I was vomitting feces all right and so I was like 90% dead yeah I think the only thing that yeah yeah exactly exactly so so they now took me to in Luf which was where I found how it happened I don't know but it dumped me somewhere and somehow somehow I found myself in the in the private world because at the general world I would have died of course so the private world so that night another surgery was carried out laparotomy you know where my intestine small intestine was brought out in fact they told me before I entered the this CFO for the second surgery that hey you have 5% of surviving so even if you make it out of the TFA alive you would you still you would die within 72 hours in the ICU so so it was like wow if you go in there you die if you don't go you die you know so I had to take the chance so you know because my intestine ruptured bile ruptured I had yeah then then my kidneys or my organs affected I had serious sepsis and so so they had like it's surgeons you know like this one says well even if we succeed what about your organs right so your heart will fail see so so but it happened so the two would mean and I came out after like 10 hours so it came out in the ICU how it happened God I did not know so I woke up the next day and I will open my eyes and I said to them can you take of this I can breathe so yeah so I spent almost a month at a hospital wasn't easy but after one month I developed DVD deep ventrombuses and which was actually supposed to take me again was supposed to kill me within an hour because one of my legs was weighing like 37 kg just one yeah yeah so and the blood cloth was supposed to dislodge and block my heart or my lungs or some of brain but it didn't happen I didn't even know what what it was I didn't know what DVD was my sister was busy massaging it my my legs with Ory okay see for someone who has DVD you know when you have DVD you're not allowed to touch it so my sister lifted was lifting my legs and massaging you know so exactly but it didn't happen today I'm alive people said I lost 37 kg I was like this I took about 11 points of blood yeah so he was he was he was a miracle nobody believed I could and they said okay if you survive this DVD because it's big it's massive you end up in a wheelchair you will not be able to work you will not be able to walk so okay we're running out of time okay we wouldn't want to dwell now we just want to talk about the glory of God yes upon your life because it's very heavy they're like you know we could go on and on and on and on and on and talk about the backstop yeah come on look at what God has done exactly so let's single single I think that's what we should do so so let me say okay so he says you swallowed what can you swallow you're the lion that swallowed the lion that came to swallow me so that's what it means yeah so I say so the lion that came to swallow me I praise you the man that pulled me out of the grave you are thank you very much you know but you know before we let you go one final question where could people find you in social media where can they find your music I know for fact that I'm going to be listening to a team but all true today you know after hearing your testimony I feel like well it deserves to be praised and yes so you know where can people find you in social media you know your platforms where your music can be downloaded or I said download a stream stream okay my ultimate voice on all music platforms all stream yeah you can stream then my my IG is a dimmer music on the score a dimmer music on the score Twitter is music dimmer that's music dimmer all right yeah all righty thank you very much thank you for sharing your testimony with us I feel like I'm a pastor ready yeah but yes this is where we say we got to go where we got to go but thanks for watching as always join the conversation on social media with the hashtag t-time and remember you can catch up on all our previous episodes including this very one and all our exclusive content by subscribing to our YouTube channel I plus TV Africa lifestyle you can also watch t-time on out to TV and in London on bent television and start times channel 308 a big big big big thank you goes out to my studio guest Dima for being part of the show it's been very entertaining exciting enlightening and very educated being here with you and yes I learned a few medical times didn't you yeah anyways and of course Michael and core you know she's always very amazing and of course the entire production Timby shout out to man like la wa for holding down the cameras you know man like Shea for being on the directing of course from care our producer and every other person that's been part of this production I say salute and yes I remain your oaths for the most too much sauce on your screen your favorite boy if they'll lower or she can't let go