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Alarmist – Do you have a friend who is an alarmist?

Jul 24, 2020Olú Abíkóyè1 CommentDear Diary#4EverFriends, Alarmist

Alarmist! Do you have a friend who is an alarmist? Meet Tina; She’s their Queen. Mrs Augustina Amos who I fondly call Tina is one woman I sincerely love. I dare myself to call her my friend. Oh, I forgot to mention, since she is my superior at work, are we even allowed to be

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

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

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