Olú Abíkóyè, Author at Olú Abíkóyè

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

Dear Diary, Workplace Shenanigans – Part 3 June 30, 2020. 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

Workplace Shenanigans – Part 2

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

Dear Diary, Workplace Shenanigans – Part 2 June 20, 2020 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

Workplace Shenanigans – Part 1

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

Dear Diary, June 13, 2020 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

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

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

Dear Diary, 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

Victoria, mummy is coming!

May 30, 2020Olú Abíkóyè16 CommentsDear Diary

Dear Diary, Victoria, Mummy is coming. May 20, 2020. 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

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

Dear Diary – the Oxford Comma. May 22, 2020. The Oxford comma is a subject I have failed to write 100 words about despite all my attempts over 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

The tale of Mother Hen aka EDIYE.

May 10, 2020Olú Abíkóyè4 CommentsDear Diary

Growing up, going to Granny’s place was heavenly as it was a day to skip Mum’s unending commandments

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

May 9, 2020Olú Abíkóyè26 CommentsDear Diary

Lagos at night is another world, a place that fascinated and shocked me. As though some people were on the night shift to serve men of the underworld.

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