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This is my wife. She makes affordable, durable, & lovely bedspreads, duvets, pillowcases etc. She could also have it monogrammed. Pls RT.
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The sexual innuendos in Office Romance were so on point. 😂 And J.Lo is still flawless!
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"Democracy is not a gift." #ThePlatformJune12
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Why do people play videos or audio on their phone in public places without headphones/ear phones???
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“We’re not South African’s mate in any manner, When South Africans were down, Nigerians looked out for them, they’re not the kind of people that should look us in the face and spi!t on us” - Seun Okin goes hard on South Africa this evening 💪
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Is Claude in an alternate universe? Why is it telling me Nigeria qualified for the 2026 WC?
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Shina Achebe. I've never laughed this much in a long time.
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12.28s!!🔥 Meet Record ☑️ Tobi Amusan 🇳🇬 powered to victory in the women's 100mH at the Rabat Diamond League, clocking a time of 12.28s (1.2)! She equalled her Season's Best, beating Devynne Charlton 🇧🇸 who ran 12.40s and Nadine Visser 🇳🇱 in 12.47s.
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That Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt duet lives freely in my head. Too smooth and evergreen. 😊
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Binged watched "Nemesis" and all I can say is Courtney Kemp never misses. 😊
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This is actually a brilliant observation that deserves a proper answer. You are not wrong about what you are seeing. But what you are describing is exactly how languages disappear without anyone noticing. Adamawa alone has over 40 documented languages. Bura, Vere, Chamba, Gaanda, Lala, Bacchama, Bata, Marghi and more and no they are not variations as you pointed out. But most of them are slowly being swallowed by Hausa and Fulani because those are the languages of trade, mobility and survival. So yes, your Borno security guard speaks Shuwa Arabic and your Sokoto okada man speaks Hausa and they understand each other perfectly. That does not mean only one language exists. It means one language won the economic argument. This is what linguists call language assimilation. The dominant language does not erase the others overnight. It just makes them less useful for daily survival until the younger generation stops learning them entirely. Now here are the facts. Ethnologue, which is the world's most authoritative database on languages, currently documents 520 living indigenous languages in Nigeria alone. Not dialects. Languages. Nigeria has also already lost 12 indigenous languages or more to extinction. Gone forever. The Middle Belt is where this becomes undeniable. Plateau State alone has over 50 distinct languages. Keyword "Dinstinct". Benue has Tiv, Idoma, Igede and more. Taraba has communities that cannot understand their neighbours two villages away without a translator. Your Yoruba example actually proves the point perfectly. The fact that a Yoruba person can move across the Southwest and be understood is evidence of one dominant language absorbing regional variations over centuries. That process happened. It is still happening everywhere else in Nigeria right now. Now I am willing to bet you have never heard of Hyam, Ngas, Mwaghavul, Berom, Amo, Buji, Sura, Anaguta, or Irigwe from Plateau State. Or Kilba, Huba, Bura-Pabir, and Chibok from Borno. Or Mumuye, Jenjo, Yukuben, and Wurkum from Taraba. Or Tur, Nyandang, Kugama and Taram further into the riverine communities nobody talks about. Or what about Igala, Ebira, Bassange, Bassa-Nge, Kakanda and Oworo from Kogi alone. I have not even touched Rivers, Cross River, Bayelsa, Edo, Ondo, or Nasarawa yet. You want to know exactly where each of these is spoken? You will have to tour Nigeria for that. And I promise you, this country will humble you in ways no map ever could. The 500 languages are not cap. Most of them are just quietly dying (Bura has an estimated 11,000 speakers with most young Bura people now not able to speak the language) while we debate whether they exist. And that is the real conversation Nigeria should be having.
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I don’t believe we speak up to 500 languages in Nigeria. Different dialects ?, yes. But over 500 languages is total cap. All the South western states speak Yoruba, diffferent variations ,yh but I doubt there’s no where a Yoruba person will go in southwest and not be able to communicate asides some parts of ondo that speak ijaw or the egun speaking communities in ogun state and Lagos & I’m sure this probably applies to people from the south east too. My former security guy in abk is from borno (north east), he said they speak a language called “shuwa Arabic” but he communicates well with another bikeman from sokoto. (North west) so where did the over 500 languages come from.
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Insecurity: When will Nigeria be Safe again?
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AMBO OYEBAMIJI IS BENEFITING FROM GOOD GOVERNANCE UNDER GOVERNOR ADELEKE In this video, you can spot AMBO Oyebamiji’s campaign poster and vehicles on the newly constructed road in Ila Orungun, built by Governor Ademola @AAdeleke_01 administration Regardless of political affiliation, everyone in Osun State, even opposition will confess — everyone has benefited from Adeleke’s good governance Same way Oyebamiji and Oyetola, bitter as they are, still collected the backlog of salaries APC owed them as workers — paid by Governor Adeleke.
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I'm so grateful for the outpouring of love today. You have all made my 60th so special. Every single post, tribute, and wish touches my heart. I thank God for every additional day of life and for putting each of you in it. Wishing you all returned blessings & I look forward to seeing you soon. I love you. ♥️ J
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We have decided to follow Jesus. Now we WANT TO GROW!
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Had an acquaintance, Emmanuel (can't remember his surname) back then in OAU pre degree. This guy will fold only 1 40leaves exercise book in back pocket throughout the semester. Result came out he had 90s across all 4 subjects of Chemistry, Biology, Maths, and Physics. Igi iwe!
Had a roommate named Ayo Ali, who studied Nuclear Physics. We stayed at Mellamby Hall in the same room, B 13. All he did was sleep, play football, and listen to Music (Usher, Carlo Santana, Mixed tape). His first class was so great that NASA recruited him out of UI, and also took his entire family with him to the USA in 2003. (They were sending scouts to watch his progress every year since he was in the 200 level, when he did some programming thing on the faculty computers that caught their attention.
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Saying a meeting or an event is "in-person" sounds cooler than saying "physical." 😊
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The beauty of being a Good leader; Since ystd all the APC handles have been Insulting Adeleke and telling Osun people to vote somebody called AMBO. Omo! Osun people No Gree and are in every comments section Cursing them out & Defending Adeleke seriously. Love to see it. 🥰🇳🇬
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PLEASE NIGERIANS, HELP MY BROTHER 😭😭 Help me tag @mikeachimugu01 🙏 My brother is going through a very serious situation right now. He returned to Nigeria from China today, May 11th, 2026, aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight. After landing early this morning, he discovered that only ONE out of his FOUR bags arrived. He immediately reported the issue to airline officials, filled out the necessary forms, and was told the remaining bags would arrive later in the afternoon. When he returned to the airport this afternoon to collect them, he discovered that one of the bags had been vandalized and five phones were missing from inside — including Google Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL devices 😭💔 He went to the airline’s office in Abuja to report the theft, but they only asked him to send an email. Out of frustration and shock, he raised his voice at the airport, and people around him reportedly said incidents like this have happened before and that he is not the first victim 😭😭 The most painful part is that the phones do NOT belong to him. 🙏😭 Please Nigerians, help us amplify this until something is done.
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Leave everything you're doing right now and head on over to the live stream of The Roast of Kevin Hart on Netflix! 😂
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