Lestat de Lioncourt

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[Lestat de Lioncourt @lestat058]

This is my wife. She makes affordable, durable, & lovely bedspreads, duvets, pillowcases etc. She could also have it monogrammed. Pls RT.

[Lestat de Lioncourt @lestat058]

Shina Achebe. I've never laughed this much in a long time.

[Lestat de Lioncourt @lestat058]

@P3tra_ 😂

[Lestat de Lioncourt @lestat058]

@P3tra_ Lol. You don't like your greens?

[Track & Field Gazette @TrackGazette]

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.

[Lestat de Lioncourt @lestat058]

@SirJarus You're 💯 spot on!

I'm so thankful for my primary school education. Gave me an extremely sound foundation in English basically and I've never gotten it wrong since then.

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[Lestat de Lioncourt @lestat058]

@_logicberry 'Deji Lana (SeamlessHR - Met & Maths)

[Lestat de Lioncourt @lestat058]

@SirJarus 'Femi Iromini too. Co-Founder/CEO of Rank (formerly Moni) is from that era too I think.

[Lestat de Lioncourt @lestat058]

@psalas001 Mr Salas! Great to see you here Sir. 😊 From the BA class that year with PA etc.

[Lestat de Lioncourt @lestat058]

@iTheCrux I've always been hearing this about them. But then the school is still rated so highly and apparently churning out mostly great graduates. Is there a correlation?

[Lestat de Lioncourt @lestat058]

@CraigDavid I love you man! Thank you for giving us timeless hits. 🤗

[Lestat de Lioncourt @lestat058]

That Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt duet lives freely in my head.

Too smooth and evergreen. 😊

[Lestat de Lioncourt @lestat058]

@iTheCrux see your former boss. 😂

[Oyindamola🙄 @dammiedammie35]

The CEO of this company is an Arsenal fan and he did this with the staff yesterday 😂 ✨ 🏆

[Lestat de Lioncourt @lestat058]

Binged watched "Nemesis" and all I can say is Courtney Kemp never misses. 😊

[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.

[Timi Agbaje @timiagbaje_]

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[Lestat de Lioncourt @lestat058]

@BoyzIIMen This! This is the one!

[Banks Omisore @MrBanksOmisore]

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.

[Janet Jackson @JanetJackson]

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