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Islam

[● @pheisharah]

@OgodoSandra Our society is so messed up that some men will look the other way than face the truth. He knows what he's doing as well.

[Chicken Catcher🐔 @Only1Etubo]

Last week, I went to visit a family friend at her shop, and while we were talking, she called her 7-year-old daughter to get a bottle of Coke from the fridge. The little girl grabbed the bottle, slipped, and dropped it. The bottle shattered everywhere.

As I got up to ask if she was okay, she immediately got up, ignored the broken glass around her, ran out of the shop, and started crying. Her mother was livid. She called her back into the shop to face the consequences and yelled some hurtful words at her.

I helped clean up the mess and asked the child to stay outside because her mom was so upset. Then I asked the mother why she was so angry. She said the girl was too playful. I told her I had been watching and that the child wasn’t playing at all; she simply slipped and fell.

She repeated that the girl was always too playful. I acknowledged that she might be, but that wasn’t why the Coke dropped. I saw what happened: it was clear that she slipped.

I then asked her to try to understand the difference between a child being playful and an accident happening. After all, she could have dropped the bottle, too, if she had slipped. I reminded her that while our children can sometimes be playful, accidents happen, and they are still just kids.

We shouldn’t beat or punish them for every mistake. Sometimes, we need to talk to them instead.

Imagine being so afraid of your parent that you run over broken glass just to avoid being punished. What if she had slipped again and gotten seriously hurt? All over a mistake that could happen to anyone.

I understand that parenting is hard and can be exhausting, but we need to stop taking our frustrations out on our children. It’s not okay.

She was quiet for most of the conversation because I was upset, too. Later, she wanted to use food as a way of apologizing, asking her, “Come here, I know you are hungry. What would you like to eat?” but I insisted that she talk to her daughter instead. I wanted the child to understand that it was just an accident and to hear from her mother that accidents happen.

Sometimes, that’s what children need most, not punishment, but understanding.

So, my fellow parents, please and please and please. These kids are just kids. Their brains are just developing, and they need our help, support, and guidance through these stages. Do not blame and punish them for everything.

[LaughBreak: Dad Jokes ‘N More @MediocreJoker85]

I took an elevator up to the 80th floor for a meeting.

As I was getting out, the operator said, “Have a good day, son.”

I frowned and said, “Don’t call me son. You’re not my dad.”

He scratched his head and said, “No… but I brought you up, didn’t I?”

After the meeting, I got back on the elevator to head down, and the same operator was there.

Neither of us said a word.

When we reached the ground floor, he looked at me and said, “I’m sorry.”

“Because you called me son?” I asked.

He shook his head.

“No, son… because I let you down.”

[● @pheisharah]

@Olami_deeEbony I went all the way to the beginning, man! Chop kiss 💋

[● @pheisharah]

@Tolks6 Well, you'll have to go to the farm yourself for all that. Vendors are delivering to too many people to include them.

[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.

[Chicken Catcher🐔 @Only1Etubo]

Again, for those of us with kids at home, please be patient with them. In everything you do, always remember their age. Their brains are still developing, and they cannot handle too much information at once.

Some of you bombard them with too much information and then spank them when they forget. Please stop it. They are not stupid. They are not dumb. They are not slow. They are just kids trying to learn how many things work.

Some parents send their kids to do five different things, and when the child remembers the first and second things but forgets the rest, they begin to cry. Then, when they finally gather a little courage to come talk to you with tears streaming down their face, you beat them on top of that. Not cool.

Here’s what you can do to help them:

- Send them to do one thing at a time, or maybe two things at a time, depending on how old they are. You are their parent, you should know.

- Ask them to repeat the instructions after you. For example: “Go and bring me a comb, a knife, and a bandage.” Then ask them to look at you and repeat: “Comb, knife, bandage.”, and if they come back with two things instead of three, try again, if it doesn't work, then that should tell you something. Give them time, and they will get there. I promise.

Please don’t beat them. Instead of beating them… come and beat me. 🤲🏾🥹

[● @pheisharah]

@bello_shukrah Rhetorical, sarcasm, savagery, or genuine?

[● @pheisharah]

Laughs in intergenerational trauma.

[Shukrah @bello_shukrah]

My tweet this morning is to my Muslim women 😪🌝
When I hear I’m going to leave or my love won’t be the same for him if he dares marry another ,my response is always laughter 🌝.
Not out of wickedness
The questions that follows are ;
Is he finding happiness in your hurt?
Is he bragging around that it’s his right and he will do it whether you are alive or not?
Is he maltreating you physically,financially or emotionally?
Is he putting the new woman in your face to deal with it?
Is he trying to make you happy and see that your love still stands?
Then why not earn the reward of a patient wife both in this world and hereafter ?
No one want it ;okay but no one can outsmart qadr either 🤷‍♀️.
It’s a hard pill to swallow but with patience and dua ,you will heal learn to share and heal gracefully like the queen you are .
But I can’t love him the same way
Your loss AMOKE 🥹
He is human ,when you withdraw your affection ,it’s normal for him to tilt to the other side that’s giving him the love and affection needed .
But it’s not easy
No one said it is habeebty
But decenter your mind from he is mine to he is one of the Rahmah of my Rabb and my Rabb might have destined him for another .
I won’t be a friend to the new woman ,no one said you should be but you must respect her space too as she is a wife just as you .
My emotions nko
You are allowed to be emotional darling without affecting anyone’s sanity and peace of mind .
There is nothing that beat peace of mind
Give yourself peace
Accept in totality the qadr of Allah if you ever find your self in polygyny .
Pray to the most high for ease and the reward for your patience and see how your Rabb will make things easy for you ❤️.
Finally I will go with our grandmas song:won ma so wipe

“Fi di mole Kojeun oko
Fi di mole kojeun oko
Ti won baun ko e
Mashey gbeko o
Tori koma sibi tishey osi ooo
Fidi mole kojeun oko”

It’s husband money person dey spend gallantly first before ounje omo🌝
Don’t loose your home /trust you once shared due to overstretched emotions.

Yours in deen🫂
Shukurah.

[NEFERTITI @firstladyship]

Dear Nigerians,

Falz is one of us.
YCee is one of us.
Mr Macaroni is one of us.

Tunde Ednut is one of us.
Shan George is one of us.
Hilda Dokubo is one of us.

Kate Henshaw is one of us.
Olumide Oworu is one of us.
Governor Amuneke is one of us.

Anywhere you see their movies or videos, please patronize them. We have to always patronize those who have stood by Nigerians, despite the greed & acrimony. They are among the few celebrities that have refused to be compromised by the APC & their agents.

Master KG said, “No matter where you go, remember the road that will lead you home.”

Nigeria is not an ideal place. It’s even worse for artists. There are no effective piracy laws. No one is enforcing them. It’s so easy for an artist to go broke. It’s not easy to remain on the side of the truth in a place like Nigeria. So it’s easy for people to forget their humble beginnings.

However, the names I mentioned, & a few others, work extra hours just to survive Nigeria.

They have remained in our good graces, despite their struggles. It is not because it is easy, nor because their lives are better. The reason is simply: “They are one of the few good ones left.” They are the few that conquered greed.

Please, we shouldn’t abandon them.

INEC tried to recruit Governor Amuneke as their Youth Ambassador, but he declined. They told him he won’t criticize INEC if he becomes their ambassador. INEC didn’t see Omojuwa, Okoro, or Qudus to recruit? They didn’t see Seyi Law or Ogbeni Bigot? Joash Amupitan is shameless.

INEC is the third arm of the APC. The entire Commission has no secondhand shame. They will remain compromised, pariahs, outlaws.

INEC never had a reputation to protect!

[Shushu ❤️ @Shasheen_]

I told my boyfriend that I didn’t get the promotion and guy just hissed and said “their loss”
I thought that was the end of it cos we all know men don’t do emotional stuff

But last night his mum called and said “I heard what happened “ and this woman proceeded to tell me how she was overlooked 4 times too..

After the call, I texted him why and he replied
“ I didn’t know what to say, but I knew she would”
🥺

[OriginalBabyGirl @chinasa_anukam]

Your votes don’t count so how did Peter Obi win Lagos in the last election? The more people show up, the more difficult it is to rig. And even if, even though, last last. What is the benefit of sitting down at home? What is the justification? When there is fire on the mountain

[● @pheisharah]

@Lordkyril When in doubt, sugar it out!

[BSAT Properties @BSAT_Properties]

One BIG mistake you can make as a parent in Nigeria, is to buy a Landed property for your Children and put their name on it.

Ehn, Papa Ebuka, let us put our house documents in ebuka name.

Papa Biliki, lets buy for Biliki in that Ochopp Real £state Company.

If you try it, you don play enter throwing

Children below 21 yrs old can not legally own a Landed property in Nigeria, except through inheritance.

If you buy that Property in your children's name, if any dispute happens on that property before he turns 21, walai
You gons loss that property

So the question now is this

Atanda, so how do i buy a Landed property for my son Junior.

Oya make i answer you

You can buy it for them in your name while you hold it in trust for them till they get to 21 years old, the land now transfers back to them automatically

The right documents to perfect this is called DEED of TRUST.

There will be a Vesting Clause in the Deed of Trust in a specific section, stating that the property automatically transfers to the Junior once he is 21yrs old.

Pla Take Note

Ensure the Deed of Assignment for the purchase also reflects the trust arrangement (e.g., "Mr. ATANDA FREEBEANS as Trustee for JUNIOR STONYBEANS") to prevent future ownership disputes.

ignorance of the law is no excuse

© Atanda

[Dee! @Khadee__jatu]

Ya Rabbi,
Please remove the spirit of laziness when it comes to my ibadah, praying, hustling and chasing my dreams. Push me to my fullest potential.

[Prime Minister of Canada @CanadianPM]

Wishing Muslims in Canada and around the world a blessed and peaceful month of reflection and prayer. Ramadan Mubarak. https://t.co/Cu19tJPeeZ

[peter @iam_pterr]

When I was a young, an uncle who left his wife in Nigeria for almost 20 years decided to visit back and my dad and mum went his wife to pick him up from the airport and we decided to host them in our house as a guest instead of allowing them spend d night in a hotel. We were stayin in a 2 bedroom flat so it was me dat was definitely give up my room for them which I was happy abt it, not dat I had a choice but I was happy cos it was the only opportunity for me to sleep in d parlour and watch it tv as I like dat night and meanwhile my parent hate me watching tv late only for me in d morning to come into my room and discovered my bed was broken and I screamed and my mum came in and laughed and said dat d bed was not strong enof for two ppl and dat d wood was weak.
Fast forward to now, me thinking how nasty dey were doin it on my bed like how can u b fucking in somebody house as a guest fucking nasty
🚶🏿‍♂️🚶🏿‍♂️🚶🏿‍♂️

[The Creative ® @thecreativexx]

Let me shed light on this:

You're not a peaceful person if you are not capable of creating chaos but choose not to. You're weak.

You're not celibate if you've never had the opportunity to have sex and you turned it down. You're undesirable.

Now, You're not a good person if you've never had the opportunity to do bad when you know you can get away with.

What money does is it gives people the opportunity to fund their evil thoughts with impunity.

Another thing is rich people get bored. What happens when you can fund all your material desires? You got the latest cars, designers, houses, bad bitches etc. Your brain craves for something different for stimulation.

You start taking bigger risks. Just for the dopamine rush. You cross lines and boundaries. You want to see how far your money can go to satisfy that urge.

Yeah, when you can fund that new evil stimulation and you CHOOSE not to, that's when you know for sure that you're a good person.

Keep the change. ✌🏽️