A Y

Happy to be alive.

[Sodiq Alabi @OneSodiqAlabii]

As someone who once took an "Islamic" loan for my business, it's all semantics. There are no major differences to your bottomline. Islamic lenders are as adverse to losing money as conventional lenders, so they structure their products to favour themselves first and foremost.

[YOBAMS. @djyobams]

Women really love the idea of compromise, they just hate to be the one doing it.

Dem like one sided mumu pass anything 😂😭

[🔺Escobar🔻 @_Mr_Richard]

You want me to believe in karma when the slave owners entire bloodline has been rich since 1450😂

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Maximum impact, minimum fuss.

Senne Lammens has won the #PL's Transfer of the Season award for a fantastic first campaign at United! 🥇👏

[Sir J (J9) @SirJarus]

CSR has to begin at home.

Jarus Homes excited to commit to donate a mini sports complex (consisting of football pitch and volleyball and tennis courts) to the University of Offa.

[Son of David @DrOlusesan]

The switch from states that couldn't pay salaries to states floating state owned airlines is probably an indication that we are mad at the wrong person.

[Pratham @dp_331]

This is 100 times better than open workspaces which we have now.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

To all celebrating Eid al-Adha — wishing you a joyful Eid ✨

[Foundational Nupe Lawyer @egi_nupe]

Here’s my wife’s book unveiling image. Please help me repost if this comes your way.

[Ade @debornair99]

Sell Bruno and buy Baleba was the worst thing people said last year, sadly I was part of those fools who said it .

Ruben this is on you cause I didn’t want to see Bruno play CM when I knew what he could do upfront .

GGMU 😍

[Premier League @premierleague]

A season for the history books 📖

@manutd's Bruno Fernandes is @EASPORTSFC Player of the Season ❤️

[FelixNoir @El_hombre28]

@ManUtd Dark clouds,looks like it's going to rain rival fans tears.😭

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

No-one does it like him.

Bruno Fernandes is the Premier League Player of the Year 🤩❤️

[AareMusbau @musbauceo]

AMBA Laro
BOB Losan
SYD Lale
Kwara APC mogbe fun yin oooo🚶‍♂️

[Riri💕 @Quo_Riri]

This mentality is exactly why I didn’t join my fellow interns for our internship send-off. I stood in the corner and watched as everyone took photos and made videos. Some of them were leaving the country the following week, while others had already enrolled for NYSC and had fancy temporary jobs lined up. But me? I had no plans, no hope, and I was terrified of returning home. I even refused to go with them to the club that night.
While I was scrolling through their IG stories that night, I saw a job opening, reluctantly applied even though I wasn’t qualified (they wanted someone with post-NYSC experience), and smoothly got the job within two weeks.
As glad as I was, I still wished I had joined my friends in the celebration. I wish I hadn’t worried so much about tomorrow that I missed out on having fun and creating those irreplaceable memories.
I always remind myself and the people around me: live in the moment more than you worry about tomorrow.

Fuck it and have fun when you can!

[A Y @simars80]

Living in America these days is so jarring.

This driver picked me up and almost nagged me to death from my house to the airport. Definitely the most stressful ride I have ever taken.

And he actually has a good reason to nag.

A $60 ride and he is getting $18.

Just wow.

[Son of David @DrOlusesan]

If you do not have old classmates who are in positions of influennce today or more successful than you are, you most likely attended very poor schools at all levels.

[Prof Kamar Adeleke @Profkadeleke]

WHY I CAME BACK HOME

After almost 30 years in the United States working as an Interventional Cardiologist, people still ask me why I returned to Nigeria.

Every day at Tristate Hospital, Lekki, I am reminded that my return to Nigeria was not just a career decision. 1/8

[Bayo Onanuga, OON, CON @aonanuga1956]

STATEHOUSE PRESS RELEASE

PRESIDENT TINUBU APPOINTS PROFESSOR SEGUN AINA AS NEW JAMB REGISTRAR

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Professor Segun Aina as the new Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), succeeding Professor Is-haq Oloyede, whose two-term tenure expires on July 31, 2026.

Professor Aina, who will be 40 in July, is a distinguished academic and systems expert with extensive experience in national examination systems, digital infrastructure, and public-sector institutional reform.

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Kent, an MSc in Internet Computing and Network Security, and a PhD in Digital Signal Processing, both from Loughborough University, United Kingdom. He has also completed the Senior Management Programme at Lagos Business School.

A Professor of Computer Engineering at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Aina began his career with JAMB during his National Youth Service, gaining foundational experience in national admissions and data-driven institutional processes. These insights have shaped his ongoing contributions to examination reform and systems optimisation.

With over 15 years of post-graduation experience, Professor Aina operates at the intersection of technology, policy, and institutional transformation, advising federal and state governments on system design, digital transition, and operational reform. At 39, he became one of Nigeria's youngest Computer Engineering professors and will now make history as JAMB’s youngest registrar.

He has served as a consultant to major examination bodies, including NECO, NABTEB, and various State Ministries of Education, providing expertise on ICT systems, examination integrity, and digital process optimisation.

Professor Aina is a member of several professional bodies, including the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

President Tinubu expects Professor Aina to bring to bear his vast experience, knowledge and practical insight into the operations of the Board, to take the critical educational organisation beyond the laudable heights achieved by his predecessor.

Bayo Onanuga
Special Adviser to the President
(Information & Strategy)
May 21, 2026

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[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.