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@FIFAWorldCup "This group is upside down. Germany & Spain are on the brink of elimination"- commentator. It's hard to choose because they are many beautiful moments.

@utdbrxy Our Napoli can be our Aguero moment. May we also find our Aguero moment.

May we all find our Napoli in life

@25YearsAgoLive I think FIFA is right for doing this. I think there is a guy in Argentina that is going to be 10x greater than Maradona & he will likely wear the No. 10 Jersey.

The Argentine Football Association (AFA) asks FIFA for permission to retire jersey number 10 in honor of the retirement of Diego Maradona. FIFA refuses.

In 1992, critics warned that Nigeria’s professional football league was collapsing under poor planning, government interference, and poor administration just two years after its launch. When the league started in 1990, the NFA projected weekly gate takings of ₦70,000, but revenues reportedly dropped to ₦25,000 and later crashed to ₦10,000 before the season ended. The league was accused of being badly organised, with constant postponements, overcrowded fixtures and poor officiating driving fans away. Critics also said the NFA admitted too many clubs into the league without proper structure or funding plans. Player welfare and training facilities were described as poor, while clubs reportedly preferred signing ageing “star” players instead of building youth teams. Source: Citizen

@HistorylandHQ Did the US airman abandoned his North Vietnamese girlfriend or take her to America? I wonder what was the fate of the relationship after the collapse of North Vietnam.

A US airman and his girlfriend in Saigon. 1971.

@MimieLaushi @Afro_Vvye It won the 100K USD 2016 Nigeria Prize for Literature (prose category). Have you read Whispering Trees? Is first short story collection.

@Afro_Vvye Season of crimson blossoms

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is just an incredible writer. Gripping from page 1!

@menavisualss Happy 2026 Africa Day. Today marks 63 years since the Organization of African Unity, now called African Union, was founded. Let's not forget that Gaddafi played roles in the transformation of OAU to AU.

🇱🇾 Muammar Gaddafi arrives at Tripoli International Airport to personally receive African heads of state attending the 19th Summit of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), Libya, 1982.

@Arsenal This is for Daniel Anjorin, a 14-year-old Arsenal fan who lost his life in a sword attack in east London, 30-4-24. This is a picture of him at the Emirate Stadium as fans and players of AFC played tribute to the late Daniel on May 4, 2024. Too bad Daniel is not here.

LIFT IT UP ©️

@PopBase "Thanks for reading. Happy quarantining". Notes from the COVID-19 year.

6 years ago, Lana Del Rey had a question for the culture.

@akinbolawrites To each, his own. It's always best to mix it up. The ideal reader IMO is the person who reads every and anything. Me, I can't stand self help books, although I understand why they exist.

@trip_to_valkiri @IanECox The ECOMOG soldiers from Nigeria.

Nigerian Army gunner armed with a Bulgarian MG1 GPMG, Sierra Leone, 1999 period.

Is reading newspapers and magazines a lost art in today's Nigeria?

@Yemihazan @KuroPk 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.

@KuroPk Because you will be eating oxygen like bread abi

Saving for japa is not possible, how many jobs in this country can help you save N30m and above If you don't have a rich folks to help or collateral somewhere, nothing for you

@PhiemiPaniet @drkenon2 "Those in banana island thought it was safe to live in banana republic!"

@drkenon2 Those in banana island thought it was safe to live in banana republic! x.com/Kraytur3/statu…

According to this woman, Boko Haram has entered Lagos. She said Fulani entered Banana Island & robbed almost seven houses, carted away phones and a car after gaining access through the fence.

@BOLMOJOLA I once told someone that I read fiction books and he told me that I read nonsense because he reads a ton of self-help books.

For those who say they don't read fiction because "it's not real", I can proudly 🤭🤭🤭 say I predicted this in my 2017 novel, Hang No Clothes Here. Any criminal endeavour you can find elsewhere, have no doubt that a Nigerian, with or without foreign collaboration, will try it.

@jorgeebritton I was six when Arsenal FC last won the English Premier League before May 19, 2026, I was nine like you when you wrote this match reports. Congrats to Arsenal, from a Chelsea fan.

From writing match reports in 2007 when I was 9 years old to now being PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS! MY CLUB 😭❤️

@spectatorindex The movie Terminator 2: Judgement Day might provide an answer.

Is artificial intelligence more of an opportunity or threat?

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.

WaZoBia Shenanigans. Look up the number of distinct ethnic groups in the state of Taraba alone. & please internalise the fact that ignorance or incredulity is not a data point. Your personal experience of Nigeria is not enough to properly educate you about its ethnic minorities.