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?
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!
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
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
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
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…
Did I just witness a crime? Oh, its been a year!
Did I just witness a crime? It was 6:43 am, June 1, 2019; Oluwatoyosi, this can’t be happening! I was darn sure all was not looking well from my distance. I shrugged the feeling away and thought maybe it was my mind. A lot of fearful things pass through our minds when we walk down…
Victoria, mummy is coming!
Victoria, Mummy is coming. Now, my mum is the Onijogbon-General of Gbogbo-Agbaye, the only civilian Dictator, who is more military than her Naval Officer husband. This woman has skills even the devil dabs to! She can detect lies from a million radius; embarrass you before any crowd. She manufactures domestic chores just like the way God…
Errors in the use of semicolons
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
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…