About
Rebecca Ayoola is a Nigerian writer in Lagos who runs The Oasis by Rebecca, a Substack of numbered Notes she has been publishing since 2024. She studied Industrial Chemistry at Bowen University in Iwo. Her day job sits in operations and program work for Nigerian coaching institutions, which she describes on Instagram as Administrator for Coaches. The two halves of her life feed each other.
The Substack writes to young adults figuring out vision, faith, money, and presence. The voice is Lagos-conversational and faith-grounded, with scripture quoted directly and frequently. A typical Note moves through a small everyday moment, a hair-care or travel anecdote, a passage from Isaiah or a Psalm, and ends on one practical step the reader can take. The frame is a peaceful space for self-discovery, personal renewal, and spiritual growth.
Around the writing she has built a small working operation. A Selar storefront sells a high-ticket program-setup service for coaches at two hundred and thirty US dollars, a one-on-one consultation at thirty dollars, and a five-dollar end-of-year review template. A separate journaling community routed through WhatsApp opened in 2025. She holds unpaid Campus Ambassador roles at Cowrywise and UNIVAD, two pan-African platforms whose audience is undergraduates.
Every channel is hers and uses the same name. A Substack archive of about sixty numbered essays. An Instagram of regular journal prompts and seasonal devotionals. A YouTube of short companion videos. A LinkedIn that posts roughly weekly. A Facebook page where she has recited a Psalm chapter in her local Yoruba dialect. There is no agency, no employer roster, no editorial pickup behind any of it.
Highlights
- Publication
- The Oasis by Rebecca · ~60 numbered Notes since 2024
- Education
- Bowen University, Iwo · Industrial Chemistry
- Storefront
- Selar · 4+ products from $5 to $230
- Footprint
- 325 Substack · 722 IG · 48 YouTube
Deeper Dive
The numbering is the structural anchor. Note 60 published in late March 2026 is part of an unbroken sequence that began in 2024, and she re-anchors the project once a year with a yearly recap. Note 23 closed 2024 in late December of that year. Note 57 opened 2026 on January 1. Most hidden Substacks die at Note 8. A three-year compounding catalogue with a public hiatus essay in October 2025 is the evidence that the project is craft rather than campaign.
Bowen University, Industrial Chemistry, and Yoruba Psalm recitation sit together as one identity rather than three biographical bullets. Bowen is a small Christian university in Iwo. Industrial Chemistry is the degree. The Yoruba Psalm video on Facebook is the same person honouring her local dialect in front of a small online audience. Once the three facts are visible together, the publication reads as one cohesive working life rather than a content brand. That is the kind of texture the People category is meant to surface.
The economics around the writing are small but visible. Selar lists at least four products. The two-hundred-and-thirty-dollar Program Setup and Systems Design service is the high-ticket offer for the Administrator-for-Coaches practice. The thirty-dollar one-on-one consultation is the entry point. The five-dollar end-of-year review template carries the Substack year-recap habit into a paid deliverable. There is no paid Substack tier; the publication itself is free, and the income lives next to it on Selar. The journaling community runs through WhatsApp.
Notes fifty-one through sixty lean toward travel diary and personal anecdote, including a Lagos commuting misadventure, a road trip that changed her money mindset, and a Benin Republic border crossing in March 2026. The LinkedIn tagline says I help teens become their best selves. The Instagram bio says young adults. The published evidence is broader than either label and closer to the reality of her audience, which is undergraduates and early-career adults navigating Lagos. The travel-diary tilt is the publication writing what she is actually doing rather than performing the tagline.
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