Johnson Adewale Akano
@Akano_Ade
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Similar to myself and my wife. Ours was at Lagos. we got the approval around 7am. God all the way.
A day preceding my visa interview, my wife and I went to the US embassy ground in Abuja, fasting. A stone stroll from the hotel we lodged. When we got there, the soldiers met with us. We said we just came to see the location ahead and probably the view in the embassy itself. The
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Not enough to make a snowman ⛄️ but cold enough for layers of clothing☺️
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8 more pages for a paper that’s due tomorrow. Not bad right? Not bad!
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Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the Best Graduating Student, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Ibadan He is from Ìbàdàn. He is of outstanding quality!
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October dump, but make it your small wins
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Myself and my wife were relocating to the US and my former work place director and program manager got us a lot of winter wear and shoes which were sent to our location a few weeks after we landed. We don't have 2 spend a penny on clothing. I can never forget the kind gesture.
What was it about a boss that made you see them as the best?
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I love hymns more than anything. But most churches rarely sing it.
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New York city
Happy world tourism day! What was the first city you ever visited? Mine is Dubai🫵
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Came across a call by @Babelzine on X sometimes last year for aspiring linguist and fortunately my piece got accepted. After publishing, they want to send a copy but with faith, I told them to hold-on to my copy while I was expecting grad school offers. My copy came in the mail
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Congratulations 🎉🎊🎉🎉 my guy. Many winsssss
On the 28th of July, I left Nigeria to begin my Master's degree in English with a concentration in Linguistics at Texas Tech University 🇺🇸 on a fully funded scholarship. It's been a journey of 3-4yrs of marathon of rejections and heartbreak, glad I can see the finish line of the
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The other morning with my chairman, Davido. He saw me and said "Sodiq, in the bag". We had a banter and discussed politics before heading out. I must say he is very politically conscious. We took some pictures. He specifically asked us to go to where the flags will show. Lol
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Now out from ELP and @_FPCC : An Igbo translation of "Culture Camps for Language Learning: an Immersion Handbook"! This is a practical resource for anyone interested in holding language & culture camps for language revitalization. Find it here: https://t.co/FW0wBiVQkC
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We're hiring! Applications for ELP internships during the 2024-2025 academic year are now open. Learn more about the positions, and apply by August 8: https://t.co/2OxPThMmdX #IndigenousLanguages #LanguageRevitalization #EndangeredLanguages
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A crazy one. I left VI around 8 and got to Ibeju Lekki around 1:30 am. I feel like crying. I vow not to come to Lagos again except it's unavoidable.
Yesterday, Wifey left her office (Lekki Phase 1) around 7pm but didn't get home (Ajah) until about 3am this morning. Jesu shanu
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Honored to receive the Best System Description Paper Award for our submission to SemEval-2024, led by @MiaoranZ . 🏆🎉
📢Best System Description Paper Award @naacl 2024 for "AAdaM at SemEval-2024 Task 1: Augmentation and Adaptation for Multilingual Semantic Textual Relatedness" from Miaoran Zhang, Mingyang Wang, Jesujoba O. Alabi and Dietrich Klakow. Congratulations!
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