Ayomide (SL)

She/Her • Epidemiologist • Data science • Building stuff • “Breathtakingly arresting; epitome of spiraling beauty” - dad’s review

[Anvi🍒 @anvixox]

Everyone thinks I’m an adult, but inside I’m like this.

[PeePee🎀 @peegzy1]

No one has a victim complex like a man who thinks he’s a good person.

[Yetunde Omobolanle✨ @Divayetty1]

If you asked me about my dad, I’d tell you I love him and I miss him more than I have words for. That losing him is the most painful thing I have ever experienced in my life. That there isn’t a single day I don’t wish he was still here.

But if you asked me on a deeper level…

[Ayomide (SL) @Samiee__]

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[𓆩♡𓆪 @dontlovedave]

your body not letting you cry is worse than crying

[𓆩♡𓆪 @dontlovedave]

your body not letting you cry is worse than crying

[‏ً @fwcodex]

when people think you're ignoring them but life got you like this

[Ayomide (SL) @Samiee__]

It is well

[yimika| @yimikaaaa]

Someone asked me, "Would you date yourself?"

I answered , " The only reason why I still believe in love is because of the way I love."

[skywalker saint-germain.🇫🇷🇵🇹🇧🇷 🅴 @ntmgfrvr]

bro, his fucking wife. his wife, man. she’s not a woman on a screen to him, that’s his other half. they have a life together and he can’t do shit to save her. it’s the worst thing you can feel as a person, a crippling helplessness while you spectate.

[the pressure @larabillionaire]

So, is the Nigerian government’s plan for citizens to keep paying ransom, which doesn’t guarantee release, to kidnappers and inadvertently keep funding them?

This is not sustainable and it’s very depressing. Wth???

[Big Smoke - @Skepta]

Nigerians are smart, skillful, teachers, artists, scientists and much more. The future is in the hands of the youth, don’t stop pushing!

[tobi @oluwatobiexe]

there’s no bigger indication to silently leave a relationship than watching your partner make big moves without informing you before hand.

[Empire State Building @EmpireStateBldg]

The Empire State Building shines red and white tonight in celebration of @Arsenal’s Premier League Title and trophy celebration.

See the lights live: https://t.co/iavtXSm3Fx

[Leo Dasilva @SirLeoBDasilva]

Just met a Nigerian who came from Vancouver.
You people think it’s a joke?

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

Today is children’s day, but 46 innocent children learning in their classrooms in Ogbomosho, Oyo state were kidnapped by gunmen.

It’s been two painful weeks already and these children are still not home with their families, suffering out there in the cold and enduring fear and uncertainty that no child should ever know.

This is a National crisis and the government must use every resource necessary to bring these children home. Nothing else matters in this moment.

We owe our children a safer country.

[A Wholesome Princess 🤍✨ @__princess_tee]

Yes, each stretch represents a baby so if she has 200, that means she aborted 200 babies. Hope that helps 💗

[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.

[UN Women @UN_Women]

Let women be.
Let women lead.
Let women thrive.
Let women speak up.
Let women represent.
Let women live peacefully.
Let women express themselves.
Let women control their bodies.

Let women live.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Proud of our @ObamaFoundation Scholars and the incredible work they’re doing in their communities. https://t.co/vkszh6UXA5

[Ayomide (SL) @Samiee__]

@larabillionaire oh dear 🥹🫂