Egbebu 🎗️

Igbo Man. DevSecOps & Monitoring. Gamer. Unhappy Nigerian. @Arsenal.

[TobyWrites @tobyasky]

One time I was scared of South Africans was the time two passengers strangled an Uber driver to d£ath.

I read comments from them, they said the guy was a student and should not even be working, hence, his d£ath was justified.

Those guys are disgusting and one of the most despicable people on earth.

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

May the years ahead be kinder and richer than the ones behind us. May we grow into the people we’re meant to become and may that journey carry us to breathtaking places along the way.

[Anders @Ameenu_Kutama]

Reported total cost is 83 billion naira. Coastal highway is 15 trillion naira.

[Egbebu 🎗️ @PraizVictor]

Kachalla Atiku

[Wins @GodwinsNduka1]

I am not surprised that Atiku has sanctioned a hate campaign against Obi in the North. There was a 2002 U.S. diplomatic cable from the U.S. Embassy in Abuja, released by WikiLeaks, in which Governor Makarfi, in a private conversation with the U.S. ambassador,

1/

[AnythingNG @anythingcyberNG]

@OlayinkaLere You don't even understand the implication of this post. It showed administrative access to the admin panel of the @inecnigeria registration portal. https://t.co/H8ogtlzgM8 and this url can be subjected to cyber attacks. Whoever pull up this info violates NDPC data privacy.

[Jurrien Timber @JurrienTimber]

Proverbs 21:31

[whykaycomics @whykaycomics]

Make I just dey pretend say I sabi wetin dey I dey do, from there I go meet people wey sabi wetin them dey do, so I go sabi wetin them dey do, then I go finally sabi wetin I dey do

[Egbebu 🎗️ @PraizVictor]

No one cares what you think

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

Not a single Premier League club has congratulated Arsenal for winning the Premier League title and you can’t blame them

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

If you’re due a life changing win, retweet this.

[Mai & Global Consulting Partners @MaiandGCP]

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.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

We did it, together.

[The xG Philosophy @xGPhilosophy]

0.00(xWork) tomorrow morning

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

[Nigeria Democratic Congress @NigeriaNDCHQ]

Ladies and Gentlemen of Nigeria.

We have a country to rescue.

Get your PVC.

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

50 + 50 - Aged 24 years and 255 days today, Bukayo Saka is the second youngest player in Premier League history to register both 50+ goals and 50+ assists, behind only Wayne Rooney (24 years, 84 days). Production.

[Iman | ايمان @nana_alaouie]

In hell you are forced to watch Arsenal defend a one goal lead

[highFashion @rahman_jago_]

Don’t forget to overthink the best case scenario too.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Meta bought WhatsApp 12 years ago for $19 billion. Then it bled them a billion dollars a year for six years straight, a fact that came out in court last year under oath.

The app was making about 10 cents per user when Meta bought it. We know that figure because it sat inside Meta's own slide deck the week before the deal closed.

WhatsApp's two founders, Jan Koum and Brian Acton, ran the app on a simple motto: "no ads, no games, no gimmicks." It was printed on the office wall.

They're both gone now. Acton walked out in 2017 and left roughly $850 million in shares on the table, because he didn't want ads inside the app. Koum followed a year later.

The new ads don't appear in your private chats, your group messages, or your calls. Those stay locked the way they always were, and Meta can't read them. The ads are going inside the Updates tab instead, the place with Status and Channels where you see the disappearing photos people post. 1.5 billion people open that tab every day. The new ads sit inside it and look exactly like the ones you scroll past between Instagram Stories.

To pick which ad to show you, Meta uses your country, your city, your language, the channels you follow, and the ads you've clicked on before.

Morgan Stanley thinks Meta brings in $3 to 5 billion a year from this. A Wall Street firm called Evercore puts it at around $10 billion a year by 2028, if Meta earns about $6 from each daily user.

For scale, Meta made $164 billion last year. Almost all of it, $160 billion, came from ads on Facebook and Instagram. WhatsApp's entire revenue was about $1.8 billion. Every dollar of that came from businesses paying to message customers on the app.

So the $19 billion bill from 2014 has been sitting on Meta's books for 12 years. WhatsApp now has 3.3 billion users every month. The Updates tab is how Meta finally starts paying that bill back.

[Frank Edoho @frankedoho]

Here's my best advice. Find true happiness by being by yourself. Don't make anyone the source of your happiness and the Center of your world. Don't lose yourself in any relationship. Be ready to walk away from any relationship that doesn't edify you.

[HandofArsenal @HandofArsenal]

David Raya you sir are unbelievable. Lost for words. Saved us. We will never forget.

Literally saved our Premier League Title campaign over and over again.