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Forgiveness will make you lol.

Aug 29, 2020Olú Abíkóyè5 CommentsMy Journey

Forgiveness will make you lol. I remember when I was in the university, our Constitutional Law professor had this written on her door ‘I am not religious, but I love the Lord’. This caption was ridiculous to me at the time, as I thought, how can the wife of a pastor not be religious? At

‘Tóyọ̀sí Abíkóyè Kids Foodbank

Aug 16, 2020Olú Abíkóyè2 CommentsMy Journey#1000for1000, HelpCentralNG, KidsFoodbank, TheDestinyTrust

‘Tóyọ̀sí Abíkóyè, Kids Foodbank? The thoughts of ‘Tóyọ̀sí Abíkóyè, Founder, Kids Foodbank landed on my laps like a virgin land waiting to be ploughed, after the innovative all-in-one new social impact-donating and receiving platform www.helpcentral.ng was launched. Before I found myself in the position to align myself as ‘Tóyọ̀sí Abíkóyè, Founder, Kids Foodbank, I always had to

My Legal Dress — Ede & Ravenscroft!

Jul 17, 2020Olú Abíkóyè6 CommentsMy Journey#Lawyers, #LegalDress, #SiblingRivalry

It was almost time for Call to Bar and the search for my legal dress was my palava. Olu, leave me, na! It has to be the best of the best. I wanted it so badly. Why? I don’t know! My brother Olu lamented that a lot of students would wear a cheaper version found in

How was your Visiting Day?

Jul 10, 2020Olú Abíkóyè5 CommentsMy Journey#4EverFriends, #BadDreams, #ProUnitate, #SecondarySchool, #VisitingDay

Not this visiting day! Daddy, why did you come to visit me? Why this visiting day! Why did you come today! Mummy, why? Daddy, why? I screamed from my sleep. These are dead bodies. Somebody, please help my parents! Toyo, wake up! Wake up! What is it? We just slept not quite long. What is

This is my Fight Song!

Jul 4, 2020Olú Abíkóyè2 CommentsMy Journey#Life, #Mother, #Myfightsong, #Survivor, #Warrior

This is my fight song, just as Rachel Platten sang; Like a small boatOn the oceanSending big wavesInto motionLike how a single wordCan make a heart openI might only have one matchBut I can make an explosion On this occasion, God please, this is my fight song. I beg you, I need to make that

Workplace Shenanigans – Part 3

Jun 30, 2020Olú Abíkóyè2 CommentsMy Journey#IamToyo, #Shenanigans, #WeirdPeople, #workplace

It was the closing hour at my workplace. I couldn’t bear the feeling of been overwhelmed with negative emotions anymore. I had to leave. As soon as I left the workplace, my phone rang, and it was Red Face. What the heck! I am not going to pick this call. I had left is I

Workplace Shenanigans – Part 2

Jun 20, 2020Olú Abíkóyè3 CommentsMy Journey#Colleagues, #Shenanigans, #WeirdPeople, #workplace

I stood in my office workplace, speechless! Blue Face, shey you dey whine me ni? Aye ma ni ka o! Lori system mi? Igi ewedu o ma ni wor pa wa! This is a classical case of, may we not attract curses to ourselves. I mustered the courage to ask Blue Face, “what are you

Workplace Shenanigans – Part 1

Jun 13, 2020Olú Abíkóyè30 CommentsMy Journey#Shenanigans, #WeirdPeople, #workplace

At my workplace, some workplace shenanigans can mess with your emotions. Wait for it, this is a recount of a true life event. Oh, Lawd; where is this document again! I worked on it for two days. I saved it before I left the office yesterday. How do I explain this? I lamented to the

Errors in the use of semicolons

May 22, 2020Olú Abíkóyè2 CommentsMy Journey

Errors in the use of semicolons are avoidable! Unfortunately, the two golden rules of the use of the semicolon is an everyday use of the English language punctuation that is commonly ignored. First, semicolons unite highly related thoughts. Instead of using a period to end too many independent short sentences, a semicolon unites the thoughts

The Oxford Comma: The Lagbaja of punctuation

May 22, 2020Olú Abíkóyè3 CommentsMy JourneyEnglish, punctuations

The Oxford comma is one I have failed all my attempts to write 100words on for the past three days. How could a few words be so onerous? For want of a topic, today, we die here! There’s this punctuation called the “Oxford comma”, used before the last item in a list. You see this

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