Destiny Gerald

Abundant grace

@Manutd fan ADD+

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@DAMIADENUGA This your caption sef, 45ft wey men de offload almost every week for this our Alaba Market back to back.

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@utd_elius Don't say this ever again

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@IanSZNian Zlatan Ibrahimovic

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@_offside18 That's Carlos Valderrama

Colombian midfield icon 🇨🇴
One of the best of his generation and a joy to watch in the field of play.

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@AfamDeluxo Mehn I read that multiple times and it kept hitting like a thunder.
That woman is a genius 👏

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Best article so far 👏

You've spoken so well @nwanyi_ocha .

[Nwanyi Ocha @nwanyi_ocha]

I want to be fair to @PeterPsquare . He is not wrong that French opens doors Igbo does not. He is not wrong that parents get to decide how they raise their own children. But I guess he underestimates the fact that he is not just any parent. P-Square is a name millions of Igbo people grew up admiring, their success made them proud to be who they are. People all over the world sang their songs using Igbo words. So when a voice like that says Igbo is not worth passing on, it does not land like one man’s private choice. It gives permission for a belief a lot of people were already quietly carrying, that English and French, in short anything foreign, sits above Igbo, that their native language is something to graduate out of rather than something to hold onto.

I am not Igbo. I am Swiss. But my husband made it clear from the beginning that our children would speak Igbo, and I have never once seen that as a burden or a complication. Our children speak Swiss German, English, and Igbo at home, German at school, and now French as well, since that is part of their school curriculum too. Five languages, and none of them fighting each other for space. That is the part people forget when they frame this as a choice. Children do not need to pick one language to be strong in. They can navigate several at once, easily.

It is adults who turn language into a competition. Children just absorb what is spoken to them and grow fluent in all of it.

A language is not only a tool for getting ahead. It is also a rooting tool, the place where love, memory, and belonging live. It is the specific way a grandmother scolds you and forgives you in the same breath. It is a joke that only works in the original. Lose the language, and you do not just lose a skill. You lose a room in your own house, one you can still visit as a guest but never quite live in again. That is what worries me most in this conversation. A child who cannot speak their father’s or mother’s language will, at some point, stand in that homeland and feel like a stranger. Not unwelcome, not unloved, just outside something that was supposed to be theirs by birth.

One day, my sons will be handed a kola nut, and in that moment, no one should have to do it for them. They should know how to receive it, how to speak over it, how to break it themselves, not pass it along to someone else because they never learned the words or the meaning behind them. That is such a small moment, and yet it says everything. It is the difference between being someone’s guest and being someone’s own.
So when I hear “Igbo is useless,” what I actually hear is a wound that has not healed.

From the outside, I have watched how often English or French get treated as the languages worth keeping, while Igbo gets treated as the one you can afford to let go of. That preference did not come from nowhere. It is a colonial hierarchy that convinced generations of people that closeness to their own culture was a limitation rather than a foundation. I don’t say this to shame anyone, least of all a man raising his own family the best way he knows how. I say it because the people who shape how we see ourselves carry a weight beyond their own households, whether they asked for it or not.

My hope is simple. That we stop treating our children’s languages as a competition with only one winner. That we let them have both the world and their roots, and trust that they are capable of holding both without ever having to choose.

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@nwanyi_ocha @PeterPsquare This is just the best take, thank you so much @nwanyi_ocha, you said everything without missing words.
They have to see this and change their mentality.
You're absolutely spot on 💯

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@chinemelumma @ChuksEricE Some of you still haven't understood the message, because tell me why as an amateur footballer be a Ronaldo fan and at the same time hating Messi instead of learning and understanding from both of them or doing agenda against other teams that you aren't supporting.

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@JOHNBOOKWORM1 @ChuksEricE Omor people dey this Naija ooo, see someone proudly being stupid 🙄

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@FutyArena Nicholas Anelka

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@uttdkola Pavel Nedved

Czech Republic & Juventus Midfield Maestro and Ballon D'or winner 🏆

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@GunnerPuls Giovanni Dos Santos

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@arojinle1 Focus on your animal research and leave PO the whole alone.
A bigoted fool

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@GinikaOgbo30906 @arojinle1 what is this ?

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@soccertorey This Midfield Monster
Sergio Busquets

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@SomtoRalphael @General_Somto This shows some of you really don't know what stress can do.
Maybe you can't relate because it's either you have someone stressing for you or you don't do anything at all.

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@Bjoesexy @General_Somto Nawa for you oo

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@UTDKarra Your are so pathetic, when will you stop it's getting disgusting.
https://t.co/m9cLEtUujj

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@UTDKarra Keep quite. Grapes is sour. Same old style.

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@dammiedammie35 Argentina go home when Messi is still alive?

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@ilyaas077 @UTDKobi "And you're a Man U faaaan maaaan" so because he's a man u fan he's banned from saying the truth?
I'm also a man u fan and I support this 100%.
Players like Embolo are always stup!d, you knew you're on a yellow and you made that ridiculous dive 🙄