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…
Author: Olú Abíkóyè
Draftsman | Writer | Legal Alchemist | Common Good Apologist
Victoria, mummy is coming!
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
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
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.
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?
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.
My Revamp Story
I prepared for everything in life, but nobody warned me about the human person. No one told me that the way we are different in shape and size is the exact way we are different in using our common sense and having empathy level for one another.
THE TALE OF MOTHER HEN aka EDIYE
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…
Dear Diary; We must never be too big to show empathy
Dear Diary: March 2nd 2019. We must never be too big to show empathy. Just because I can be jagbajantis with my schedule, I made myself and Sam walk into the Red Cross Society Orphanage Home two hours earlier then the Lagoon Service Project team. No thanks to my selective hearing and Sam just…
Dear Diary; This is about Ashake and the mad stray dogs!
Dear Diary: 21st February, 2019. My name is Ashake and this is my story with the mad stray dogs. We have a useless neighbour with annoying straying dogs. Due to the malfunctioning of my car, I must either hitch a ride to work or be late. Being late is not even an option, because when…