Gbenga Ajayi

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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.

[Opro News @opronews]

Workers at a restaurant in California had to physically stop a malfunctioning robot after it suddenly started spinning, dancing, and smashing tableware in the middle of service 😭

The scary part? It genuinely looked like nobody could shut it off for a moment.

So yeah… maybe the robots are not taking our jobs just yet.

[Gbenga Ajayi @triumphantgee]

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[Mysteries @LOTM_WORLD]

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[Onome Smallie @OnomeSmallie]

This is me today asking for help from my fellow Nigerians… Okumagba youths came to beat me and siblings, stabbed us and still collected money (30k) cash from us and now I’m being threatened to withdraw my case against them or face arson (burning my family house) I’m managing

[Gbenga Ajayi @triumphantgee]

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[deejay @allday_deejay]

@shannonsharpeee Someone should be investigating this bout lol 😂 dawg took a mafia dive lol

[عبدالعزيز الزحيفي @Aziz_elzhfy]

هاجم ذكر الأوز الصيني رجلاً، فتظاهر الرجل وكأن الأوز أسقطه على الأرض!
ثم عاد ذكر الأوز إلى زوجته بكل فخر، رافعًا رأسه يتباهى بقوته أمامها 😅

[The Art Of Dialogue @ArtOfDialogue_]

Khalilah Ali, the second wife of Muhammad Ali and mother of four of his children, and Veronica Porché Ali, open up about one of the most painful moments in Ali’s marriage. Khalilah details how his cheating with Laila Ali’s mother impacted her while they were still married, describing it as “the worst pain” she ever experienced.

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[Gbenga Ajayi @triumphantgee]

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[Chinomso Uzoeto @chinomsouzoeto]

There was popular a Blue Band Ad with a jingle that said, "B without BB is like a bread without a butter!"

They marketed as "Butter" for the longest time. All these people trying to pose as smarter than all of us should go and sit down.

[Dark Web Informer @DarkWebInformer]

‼️🇳🇬 Approximately 25 million documents have allegedly been exfiltrated from the infrastructure of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) of Nigeria, the government agency responsible for company registrations.

‣ Threat Actor: ByteToBreach
‣ Category: Data Breach
‣ Victim: Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) / Nigeria Government
‣ Industry: Government
‣ Country: Nigeria

‣ Total Documents: ~25 million
‣ Free Download: 750 GB

The threat actor provided 7 proof screenshots documenting the attack stages:

▪️ 1_BREAKTHROUGH
▪️ 2_ESCALATION
▪️ 3_TAKEOVER
▪️ 4_PORTALS
▪️ 5_FULL_ACCESS
▪️ 6_GOV_BETRAYAL
▪️ 7_EXFIL_TIME

Around 25% of the files are described as simple corporate signatures, leaving more than 15 million documents of substance. The actor states they tried to upload as much as possible for free but server instability limited the free portion to 750 GB.

[Gbenga Ajayi @triumphantgee]

@historydefined Wow… even the reading is audible

[ABC News @ABC]

Matthew Lane is just one example of what cybersecurity experts, authorities and even Lane himself say is a wide-ranging menace: a new generation of tech-savvy teenagers who are uniquely dangerous and surprisingly young. https://t.co/gX0gTPApBq

[Bulvar Medya @Bulvarpress]

Brezilya’da bir çiftçi hasatına zarar veren yaban domuzlarını motosikletiyle kovaladığı anları paylaştı.

Uzun süren kovalamacanın ardından yorgun düşen domuz kaçmayı bıraktı.

[Gbenga Ajayi @triumphantgee]

@azeez_077 @0neCHAD Drink more water and consume more fiber