I Enjoy Sending My Father Money Because He Prays For Me – Lizzy Gold

Nollywood actress, Lizzy Gold has come out to call out her own father for a perceived entitlement mentality. She recently had her say via a now-deleted Instagram clip, and fans have been reacting.

According to her, she recently transferred money to her dad’s account in the early hours of Easter Monday, expecting a heartfelt gratitude in return as soon as he received the alert, only for her father to send a mere “Thanks” as response.

Lizzy added that the underwhelming response her to call and tell him how unappreciative his response sounded, and he immediately told her that he prayed for her in his heart.

Her words, “Normally, I always send my father money. I have his account number. So what I do (is that) at night I send him money so that when he wakes up in the morning, he’ll see the amount I’ve sent to him.

I love surprises. I always surprise my father and trust me, whenever he wakes up in the morning and sees whatever amount I’ve given to him, he’ll pray for me… Trust me, I enjoy the prayers, as it gingers me to want to do more.

On Easter day, my father sent me a message: ‘Baby how far na. Do Easter for you papa na’. He sent me the message in the morning. I pretended like I did not see it.

At 2 am, I dropped a huge amount of money in his account. You know that kind of a feeling of giving your dad big money and you’re expecting to wake up to see some kind of prayers that will bubble you.

After sending him the money around 2 am, I woke up only to check my phone and see ‘thanks’. No prayers. Nothing.

I told him ‘I sent you money. This is 10 times the amount I usually sent. And all you could say is thanks. No prayers’

My father responded, ‘I prayed for you in my heart.’

I immediately told him, Daddy, I don’t pluck money from trees. I work tirelessly for my money. I enjoy the prayers. It gingers me to want to do more.”

WOW.

Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.

The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.

Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.