Olowu Adekunle

As a people, we need to: - be great at building things - get better at organizing ourselves - reject the victim mentality that some people are holding us back

Founder wives are just VCs who emotionally invested pre-seed

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.

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In Nigeria, a moving man may meet bandits.

Me tasting the PL after 22 years.

Until you lose your job, you'll realise it was never anyone's choice to be unemployed. Life humbles everybody eventually

Give People the gift of Mercy , you may not know when you will need it

You cannot rehabilitate a person that beheads a person. You cannot rehabilitate someone that offs people for sport. You cannot rehabilitate someone that kidnaps and rapes children.

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Ok, Yale, MIT and Heaven.

We need to have a conversation about the quality of food we are buying these days. Why is the Eba I made yesterday looking funny in less than 48 hours? Or do we have fake garri now?

My leaders stopped reading after 'champagne'.

You can do both

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Na 22k Akara dem wrap with paper? Wetin do briefcase?

I genuinely pity Nigerian youths man. Your life and future is being treated with negligence and scorn, people will tell you stories of a Nigeria previously far better than what you are currently experiencing. Your mates, children of politicians who do not do half your work are shielded from the consequences of bad governance but you are still here claiming you support APC. You literally witnessed the sharp rise in the cost of living and the free fall of quality of living and yet… Are you people cursed ?

I’m in love with this sentence: “The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”

@AfricaFactsZone, Thank you for bringing this up. First, it's true I took back my ambulance & I have no apologies for that. Why did I do it? It's because they didn't vote for me. So did you expect me to walkaway with nothing? Galatians 6:7 A man reaps what he sows.

A drunk policeman shot me at a checkpoint in 2011. The bullet tore through my car, through my right hand. I lost my career as an animator. My marriage cracked. My mind still bleeds. The twist? I sued the Nigeria Police. Won in 2015. Judge said: "Pay his medical bills." 10 years later. Zero naira. I face permanent disability without help. @PoliceNG_CRU @TunjiDisu1 @UNDP @NhrcNigeria #NigeriaPoliceNotYourFriend

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.