Aina | RD8 Labs™️

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[Aina | RD8 Labs™️ @t_ainy]

Yes 😫

[Oladimeji Ajegbile @diimejii]

Do you ever create something that you just can't stop looking at it and it keeps blowing your mind?😄😂

[jay makinze ❼ @Mr_Teekay]

the first ten seconds of this video activates nigerian millennials the way ms. rachel activates toddlers and grabs their attention.

[Oyindamola🙄 @dammiedammie35]

Super falcons PR 😍✨🇳🇬

[Oreva🌼 @rehviie]

Petition to add subtitles to cinema movies😭🙏🏾

[Aina | RD8 Labs™️ @t_ainy]

@tonitoness_ Thanks mama!!!🥰🥰❤️

[Adedamola❤️❤️❤️ @ThatGirlDML_1]

I’m not trying to be controversial, but if we're demanding civic responsibility from religious leaders, it shouldn't be limited to or reserved for a single religion.

[Imago Dei @eldivine]

Some things are impossible to fake. It's either it dey or it didn't dey

[CHI$OM (Hates APC)🐆✨ @_chiceeeyyy]

Look at the incoherent vegetable that’s ruling over 200M people
Shame on all of us mehnn 💔

[Aina | RD8 Labs™️ @t_ainy]

Jesus we’re not that old now 😂😭

[mr. momentum @rakafunkmo]

Do you know how much of an oldhead you have to be to remember Goge Africa?

[Emeka @Emeneks]

GodForbid bad thing 😭

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

I aspire to be a woman who keeps learning and evolving. Never stuck, never stagnant. Always reading, listening, growing, changing. I want to be humble enough to admit when I'm wrong and brave enough to do better. I want to be 50 and still discovering new things about myself.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Pattern Recognition is also the form of intelligence that causes the most stress.
You will see things that others do not.

You'll feel crazy.

Things will be *so obvious* to you, and others will just deny it.

[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.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Harry comes back to life because of a blood magic loop Rowling set up four books earlier, and it's one of the cleanest payoffs in modern fantasy.

In Goblet of Fire, Pettigrew takes Harry's blood for Voldemort's regeneration ritual. Voldemort wants that specific blood because it carries the protection from Lily's sacrifice. Taking it does let him touch Harry without burning. Taking it also puts Lily's charm inside his own body.

Voldemort is now carrying the same protection that made baby Harry impossible to kill in book 1. As long as Voldemort lives, Harry is tethered to life through Voldemort's blood. Dumbledore figures this out, which is why he tells Snape that Harry has to walk into the forest unarmed.

The Horcrux is the second mechanism. Voldemort accidentally made one inside Harry the night Lily died. When Voldemort casts Avada Kedavra in the forest, the curse hits something it can latch onto: the soul fragment, not Harry. The Horcrux dies. Harry doesn't.

The willing walk matters too. Harry surrenders without fighting back, the same way Lily did 17 years earlier. That invokes the same sacrificial protection she cast. Every defender at Hogwarts now carries it. The Killing Curses Voldemort throws in the final battle stop working.

Three magical contracts stacked: Lily's charm hiding inside Voldemort, the Horcrux absorbing the curse, Harry's surrender extending the protection forward.

The Resurrection Stone summons echoes of the dead so Harry has the courage to walk in. That's all it does. The reason he comes back is that Voldemort built the loophole himself in Goblet of Fire and never noticed.

[Chiamaka Nwakalor-Egemba @chef_amakaa]

We have spent years being told it is “just a period problem” while our skin, our weight, our mood, and our energy were all falling apart. Today, the medical world finally admitted you were right.
PCOS is now PMOS.

[omoge. @KhloeUmoh]

I have noticed that my journey in life has never been forced but at the right time, my heart has known what to desire, my hands have known how to work, the people I need have arrived, the situations have changed or been arranged where necessary-

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

there is something in these photos that nobody is talking about.

the earth, seen from the moon’s surface, is a crescent. the same shape we see the moon from earth. which means from where these astronauts stood, our entire world, every human being alive, every city, every ocean, every mountain, was receiving light the same way the moon does.

dependent. reflective. not a source but a receiver. and God placed both of them, earth and moon, in a gravitational relationship so precise that if either one shifted slightly, the conditions for life dissolve completely.

He did not just create them. He positioned them. He calibrated the distance. He calculated the tilt. He set the orbital speed. and then He rested.
what that tells me about God is something i am still processing.

He is not a God who creates carelessly and steps back. He is a God who creates with intention so deep that billions of years later, the greatest scientific mission of our generation goes out there and finds everything exactly where He left it. the craters on that moon are not evidence of chaos.

they are evidence of endurance. of something built to absorb impact and remain.

God put that quality into the moon because it is His own quality. He absorbs everything this world throws at existence and remains. unchanged. unshaken. still in orbit. still faithful. still holding everything He made in the dark.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

Jeremiah is exactly correct, the Ark of the covenant isn't sitting in a monastery somewhere being guarded by monks. The Jewish Talmud says it was never returned after the Babylonian exile in late 6th century BC; Maimonides says that it could be buried in tunnels Solomon made under the temple mount; 2nd Macc. 2 says Jeremiah hid it at Mt. Nebo; Samaritan tradition says it was buried in Mt. Garizim.

And let's be honest, even if it was in an Orthodox Tewahedo church in Ethiopia (which I'm pretty confident it isn't), it wouldn't matter. The Ark was meant to point to and is fully fulfilled in Jesus. If it still physically exists it holds no power or authority than any other ancient box.

[Aina | RD8 Labs™️ @t_ainy]

Lmao I just did the most Nigerian thing at work. I instructed a tech to order samples of an ingredient for a new product, only for them to tell me that they just mistakenly ordered a 55lb pack of the ingredient instead and I responded with:

“As how?” 🫠😂

Gen Z no go kill me🤦🏾‍♀️

[The Lord's storyteller @LajuIren]

When you see this, please retweet and say ONOBIREN! See cinematography nau! We need 2k retweets on this please!

First official trailer for sweet film, out in cinemas on March 6th!

Thank you!