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Back in February, during the Hallelujah Challenge team photoshoot, Pastor stopped to pray for me and shared a few proph...
10/06/2026

Back in February, during the Hallelujah Challenge team photoshoot, Pastor stopped to pray for me and shared a few prophetic words. One caught me completely off guard. He said the World Bank would invite me to speak at one of its biggest summits, and that I would play a headline role.

I said “Amen,” but honestly, I was confused. I already worked with the World Bank, so I could not see how that word would unfold. He must have noticed my face, because he said it again with even greater conviction. I received it and carried on with life.

Fast forward to April. A call with the manager of the World Bank Youth Summit changed everything. They wanted me to headline and curate a session for more than 7,000 delegates, the first of its kind in the summit’s history. Two fireside chats. One with the President of the World Bank Group. The other with me, alongside the CEO of Voice of Africa KAD, on Finding Your Voice and the Power of Storytelling.

I did not believe it until the confirmation email arrived. Then the flyer. Even then it felt surreal. Somebody say, “Jesus Iye.”

God does not need our understanding to fulfil His word. He simply needs our obedience. There are some things hard work cannot explain, and this is one of them.

Pastor , thank you for speaking with conviction that day, even when my face said I did not understand. You held the word steady until I could catch up to it.

And there is one more part of this story. Hatricks will tell it soon.

I expected the week before SOR UK to be full of prayer. I did not expect it to be full of questions. What is the route t...
09/06/2026

I expected the week before SOR UK to be full of prayer. I did not expect it to be full of questions. What is the route the guest will walk. Where does the light fall when he turns. What does someone watching online see in the second a camera cuts away. For hours, Apostle Joshua Selman moved through questions like these, about moments most people would never notice.

And the people answering them had prayed. Had fasted. Had come expectant. They had already done the spiritual work. Yet here they were, labouring over things that seemed to have nothing to do with faith at all.

I used to think prayer and preparation were opposites. That if your faith was strong enough, it would cover whatever you failed to prepare. What I watched corrected me. The prayer was not making the preparation unnecessary. It was the reason it mattered so much.

Then he told the workers one thing I have not been able to put down since.

Before you serve others, take your requests to God first. Not after. Before.

These were the people building an encounter with God for everyone else. And the quiet danger was that they could give that experience to others and never have it themselves. So he sent them to God first, not as workers, but as people who needed Him as much as anyone walking through the doors.

And then I watched what that produced. The same person who bowed their head in prayer would lift it to check whether the microphone was working. The same hands raised in worship had mapped the routes and set the seating. Prayer and preparation were never two separate jobs. They were one person, doing both, without a gap between them. The people who prayed the most were the same people who prepared the most.

By the time the lights come on, excellence has already happened or it has not. The room only shows what was decided in the days no one was watching. The moment everyone sees is never where excellence begins. It is only where it shows.

It is one thing to love the people you cannot see. It is another to give them the same excellence as the people you can....
08/06/2026

It is one thing to love the people you cannot see. It is another to give them the same excellence as the people you can.

Before SOR UK, there were conversations about sound, transitions, guest experience. What caught my attention was how often AJS’s focus returned to the person watching from a screen somewhere far away. What are they hearing? Will their experience be as full as the person sitting in the arena? Are they being considered?

Nobody would have faulted him for letting the online experience be slightly lesser. That is the part most of us quietly accept. The people in the room get the real thing, and everyone else gets a version of it.

He refused to let them be served second.

Again and again I watched Apostle Joshua Selman hold the same standard for people who might never sit in that room, people he was carrying without ever meeting. It did not stay general. It got specific, in the exact places where no one would have thought to check. Because what you give when no one would know the difference is the only thing that was ever really yours.

So I will leave you with the question I have been carrying since Liverpool. How seriously do you take responsibility for people you may never meet? The way you treat the people who cannot repay you is the truest thing about you.

The room never knew. The screen never knew. He built for them like they did.

One of the easiest things in the world is to identify a problem.The harder thing is refusing to stop there.The first nig...
06/06/2026

One of the easiest things in the world is to identify a problem.

The harder thing is refusing to stop there.

The first night of SOR UK, the red carpet at the VIP entrance had to be removed. It was folding in places and could become a safety hazard. As a photographer, I hated it. I had already imagined the photographs I wanted to make. There wasn’t enough time to fix it, so it was removed.

The next morning, it was back. Not because the problem had disappeared, but because someone had solved it.

Standing there watching members of the aesthetics team carefully working on it, I found myself thinking about something Apostle Joshua Selman had taught a few days earlier. He said there is a science to excellence. I think what struck me most was realizing that excellence is not the absence of problems. Excellence is the refusal to stop at them.

Most people see a problem and adjust their expectations. Others see a problem and start looking for a solution. The carpet was never really the lesson. The lesson was the mindset behind it. The refusal to settle. The refusal to accept “good enough.” The determination to bridge the gap between what is and what could be. Most people who walked through those doors would never know the carpet had been removed the night before. They would simply experience the result.

And maybe that is the thing about excellence. The best expressions of it are often invisible. You do not notice the work. You notice the difference it makes.

And on a cold morning in Liverpool, I watched a lesson from a workers meeting become a red carpet.

Thank you.Thank you for the calls, the messages, the prayers, the posts, and every birthday wish. I felt every single on...
05/06/2026

Thank you.

Thank you for the calls, the messages, the prayers, the posts, and every birthday wish. I felt every single one of them.

This year, my birthday found me in Rome. And honestly, I can think of no better way to spend it than doing the work I love.

I keep looking back at these two days and shaking my head. How did I get here. I know exactly how. God.

For two days, I worked with the leadership, the advisers, and the communications teams at IFAD. And one of my greatest joys was watching the shift happen in real time. Watching people begin to see stories where they once saw reports. People where they once saw programmes.

To President Alvaro Lario, the Vice President, the Assistant Vice President, the Head of Communications, and the entire communications team at IFAD, thank you. For your leadership, for creating a space where impact and human stories can mean something together, and for believing in me and in The Hatricks enough to entrust us with something this big.

To the entire Hatricks by Tolani team, at home and here in Rome, thank you. This moment is as much yours as it is mine.

And to my friend and brother David, who made sure a birthday in Rome came with proper Italian pasta, good gelato, and even better conversation, thank you.

The purpose of light is not to draw attention to itself. Its purpose is to illuminate. To reveal. To help others see.

And if Rome reminded me of anything, it is this. When God gives you light, your only responsibility is to let it shine.

For all of it, I am grateful.

The Hatricks to the world.

Glory to God.

Never let anyone tell you, your dreams are not valid. Getting ready to speak at a global institution in 5 minutes live...
04/06/2026

Never let anyone tell you, your dreams are not valid.

Getting ready to speak at a global institution in 5 minutes

live in Rome, Italy!

God did!

Wish me Luck!

The older I get, the less impressed I am by accomplishments and the more amazed I am by grace. The truth is, when all is...
03/06/2026

The older I get, the less impressed I am by accomplishments and the more amazed I am by grace. The truth is, when all is said and done, there are some things hard work cannot explain. There are doors that open, opportunities that come, moments you experience, and miracles you witness that remind you there is a God in heaven actively involved in the affairs of men.

You can prepare. You can pray. You can work. You can do everything within your power. But when certain things happen, you know. The hand of God was there.

As I reflect on another year of life, I find myself in awe of God’s undiluted mercy, grace, and favor.

If I had written the script of my life, it would not be this good. Only God could have written a story like this.

And somehow, He is still writing.

Omotolani, Happy Birthday 🎩🎊

Mo dúpẹ́. Mo rí àánú Olórun gbà.

HOSANNA EHHHHHHH.

📸:

02/06/2026

For the first time ever, The Hatricks comes to Rome.
What started as a classroom, a conversation, and a belief that stories matter has now brought us here. Over the next couple of days we are partnering with for something we designed specifically for them. A curated session, followed by a practical, bringing together the people who set the direction and the people who carry it out.

We will talk about how to find the stories hidden inside the work, how to tell them with honesty and conviction, and why the stories we choose so often decide whether people understand, support, or act.

It is an incredible privilege to be invited into rooms like this, and an even greater responsibility to contribute to the conversation.

From an idea to Rome.

Glory to God.

There was a conversation about fingerprints. Not the kind you are thinking. Fingerprints on the pulpit. Because the surf...
01/06/2026

There was a conversation about fingerprints. Not the kind you are thinking. Fingerprints on the pulpit. Because the surface is reflective, and the person who steps up next should not have to meet the smudges of the person before. I sat with that longer than I expected to.

This was a leaders meeting before SOR UK, and on paper it was about details. Would the people watching online feel what the people in the room felt. Whether the sound was right. Whether the people serving had been cared for. How you hold thousands of people and still make one person feel seen.

Most people would call these things small. That is the mistake. Excellence hides inside the details nobody notices when they are done well, and everybody feels when they are not.

Then AJS turned to the Koinonia dove. A logo people have seen a thousand times and stopped really looking at. He took us to Proverbs 4:18, the path that shines brighter and climbs higher toward the full day. And he said the bird is not plateauing. It still has heights to reach. It is still soaring. It is still flying. That is the whole philosophy in a logo. The bird has not arrived. It refuses to.

And the fingerprints made sense. None of it was about logistics. It was about an identity that refuses to believe it has arrived.

Because the real threat to excellence was never a lack of talent or resources. It is familiarity. The quiet confidence that because you have seen something a thousand times, you understand it. Familiarity is how careless creeps in wearing the face of experience. It is how people stop wiping the glass. It is how they stop asking who comes after them.

The moment you decide you have arrived, you stop growing. Some people see the details as an inconvenience. Others see them as the clearest way to tell a person they matter.

That night I did not learn a lesson about branding. I learned that excellence is just love, paying attention.

Some lessons arrive from places that have no business being in the same sentence. Mine came from Michael Jackson, Matthe...
30/05/2026

Some lessons arrive from places that have no business being in the same sentence. Mine came from Michael Jackson, Matthew 5:16 and Apostle Joshua Selman

I saw the Michael Jackson documentary 3 times. Each time I brought a notebook and a pen. Not to study the music, but to understand what happens when someone takes a gift seriously.

One moment caught me. His mother reminded him of Matthew 5:16. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. I have heard that verse my whole life. Yet sitting in that cinema, I heard it differently.

For years I thought it was about the light. This time I found myself thinking about the responsibility that comes with it. If God places something in your hands, He expects more than admiration for the gift. He expects you to grow it. To work at it. To honor it. To refuse to leave it where you found it.

A few days later, I found myself documenting a leaders meeting in AJS’s living room the night before SOR UK. As stories were shared and conversations unfolded, I found myself thinking about that verse again. Not because anyone was talking about Matthew 5:16, but because I was watching what it looks like when someone takes seriously what God has placed in their hands.

It was not the length of the night. It was the seriousness. The seriousness with which he approached the assignment. The seriousness with which he approached people. The seriousness with which he approached details. The seriousness with which he approached the thing God had entrusted to him.

Perhaps Matthew 5:16 is not only about shining. Perhaps it is about refusing to be casual with what God has given you. About doing the work a gift demands. About honoring it enough to keep growing, keep learning and keep becoming.

Because when people encounter the fruit of your life, the goal was never for them to stop at you. The goal was always that they would see God. Which is why giving your best to God and giving your best to the world were never two different things. They were always one.

The meeting ended at 3:40am.

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