Nigerian Women Must Dress Better To Church – Toyosi Etim-Effiong

Popular media personality and wife of Nollywood actor, Daniel Etim-Effiong, Toyosi has come out to criticize women over their choice of outfits to church.

She recently had her say via her social media page, and fans have been reacting.

According to her, certain clothes are simply not meant for the church because it is meant to be a holy ground where people are supposed to meet God.

Toyosi added that God is the King that earthly kings bow to, so He deserves all the respect in the world.

His words, “My gender please nau, let’s dress differently to church. The cloth for Zaza is not the cloth for church. The church is supposed to be a holy ground. A place where you are (supposed to be) guaranteed to meet with God – your creator, the King that earthly kings bow to, the One your bosses bow to, the One your bosses acknowledge as the Almighty.

Why does it seem like you show these people more respect in your dressing than you show your God? Is church about God or about something else? and if it’s about Him and something else, what is priority?”

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.