Olú Abíkóyè

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

Did I just witness a crime? Oh, its been a year!

Jun 1, 2020Olú Abíkóyè13 CommentsDear Diary#Behuman, #fearless, #June01, #Saynotorape

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!

May 30, 2020Olú Abíkóyè16 CommentsDear Diary

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

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

Re Dear Diary: This is the tale of Mother Hen aka EDIYE.

May 10, 2020Olú Abíkóyè4 CommentsDear Diary

People always ask why I don’t eat chicken, I lie it is a medical condition. Still, we both know it is more than a medical condition, it is my sheer hatred for wicked chickens that lay devilled eggs. Haa Toyooo! Almost three decades and I just can’t forget this hatred I have for Roosters. Let

What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done that seemed so right when you did it?

May 9, 2020Olú Abíkóyè26 CommentsDear Diary

It was 1st of February, 2020, the first day of the implementation of the Lagos State ban of specific private-public means of transportation based on public safety, in six out of 20 local government areas in the State. This ban affected Surulere, Lagos Mainland, Lagos Island, Ikeja, Eti Osa and Apapa. Everyone was aware of

My Revamp Story

May 1, 2020Olú Abíkóyè11 CommentsMy Journey

Life has dealt with me so well; I would call myself one of the privileged few. I never had a thing to worry about, and my life moved at the pace every parent would want their child to succeed. I have no complaints about life. None at all. I journeyed through life, succeeding at every

THE TALE OF MOTHER HEN aka EDIYE

Sep 2, 2019Olú Abíkóyè6 CommentsDear Diary

Monday, September 2nd 2019. Dear Diary, This is the story of EDIYE *People always ask why I don’t eat chicken, I lie it is a medical condition, but we both know it is more than a medical condition, it is my sheer hatred for wicked chickens that lay devilled eggs. The medical condition only came