Paul Ayodele Onanuga

I am me.

Academic: Language. Digital Media. Gender & Sexuality. Nigerian Hip Hop.

Once a while, a creative writer.

[Paul Ayodele Onanuga @Nugadel]

https://t.co/vqYzhLgaiK

@falzthebahdguy

[Gérard L. F. Chouin @glchouin]

When you were only trying to open a 1x1 m test pit to verify an hypothesis, and you find a pavement that looks like nothing documented to date... Ile-Ife for you! Always calling for more!

[Bennylee @itsbennylee]

We came together in the presence of kings and declare that sharia law will not have a place in Yorubaland.. Bennylee outstanding performance of his song Imo lile (Extremist ideology) in the Oketase Festival ILE-IFE

[Arojinle @arojinle1]

Many Nigerian hunters are just decimating our wildlife without caution. To make matters worse, they upload the videos and people hail them. Now, they have introduced a new level of madness. They invite Europeans and Americans tourists to go on hunting expeditions with them. The questions remain

1. Are these huntings carried out in public or private properties

2. Does the government know that these people are coming into the country for reckless and undocumented trophy hunting?

[Sheni Coker @sheni_coker]

“Pray for Nigeria”. “Prayer walk for Nigeria”. “Pray for our leaders”. “Fasting for Nigeria”

It’s 2026, pls stop this fooling. I’m begging.

[Prof™ @OOlusore]

In the early hours of 29th May 2023,
FUEL was ₦197/Liter
EXCHANGE RATE was ₦460/$

Just in case you have forgotten.

[Niyi Abiri, Ph.D 💻🥃 @xniyi]

Historical grazing corridors and modern conflict in southwest. How fulani settlements are determined by fulani tribe's secret ancestral grazing route and the villages they might likely strike in the future...

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

'We have lost about 80% of the houses in this community'

In Ayetoro, a coastal community in Ondo State, south-west Nigeria, residents say the sea has already swallowed more than half of the town.

[Paul Ayodele Onanuga @Nugadel]

@teenagerstutor This has been noted for further administrative processing, Sir.

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

The full names of the 46 kidnapped Oyo children. They are still in terrorist captivity as I type this tweet.

Pls share this post everywhere
Let their names be known worldwide.
Kindly lend your voice I beg you.

On today’s children’s day,
If this is all you do, you’ve done a lot.

[Paul Ayodele Onanuga @Nugadel]

@ayomercy2011 Pray, Sir

[Instablog9ja @instablog9ja]

Pray for bandits and t+rrorists to abandon their evil ways — Tinubu tells Nigerians

[GT Atas @GodstimeAtas]

No matter the level of your fasting and prayers as a Christian in Nigeria, an atheist in China and Japan will always have a better quality of life than you.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

That photo costs about $17. The premium version, where the tiger’s head rests in your lap, goes for around $140. Selling these poses made Thailand’s Tiger Temple roughly $3 million a year, until police raided it in 2016 and pulled 40 dead tiger cubs out of a freezer.

Thailand has about 1,960 tigers locked in cages right now. Almost all of them are at places that sell tourist photos. The most recent Thai government count of wild tigers came back at 179 to 223. There are eight to ten times more tigers in the photo business than tigers out there hunting deer in the forest.

Police forced their way into the Tiger Temple in May 2016 and walked out with 137 live tigers. They also found 40 frozen cubs in a kitchen freezer. Twenty more cubs were floating in jars of preserving fluid. Authorities stopped a temple staff member trying to drive off the property with two whole tiger pelts, ten tiger fangs, and around 1,500 small good-luck charms made from tiger skin.

Speed breeding is what keeps the supply going. Mothers get their cubs taken at two to three weeks old. The females come back into heat much sooner and pop out another litter long before nature would let them. World Animal Protection investigators walked through Thai tiger parks and found half the cats they saw in cages smaller than a one-car garage. A wild tiger covers 10 to 20 miles in a single night.

Cubs work the photo line for a few months. They get passed from tourist to tourist hundreds of times a day. Most are declawed, which is exactly what it sounds like: amputating part of each toe so they cannot scratch a paying customer. Once a cub grows too big or starts pushing back, it is finished with the photo business and too expensive to feed.

The same animals start a second life as product. In 2007, Thailand signed an international treaty banning the sale of tiger parts. Other tiger countries signed too. Authorities still seized 641 tigers, dead or alive, in smuggling busts across Southeast Asia between 2000 and 2011. DNA tests traced 275 of those straight back to the same kind of farms that sell tourist photos. China and Vietnam are the destination, where the parts are sold as tiger bone wine, tiger skin rugs, and traditional medicine.

After the 2016 raid, the government took custody of all 147 rescued tigers. Eighty-six died within three years. Decades of speed breeding had inbred their bloodlines so badly that their immune systems were already gone by the time anyone tried to save them.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

This belongs to all of us.

[odysseus skywalker.🅴🇵🇹 @ntmgfrvr]

that is a baby on her back, she's begging for her life and no state of emergency has been called, no swift action, everybody in ogbomoso and nigeria went to work today like nothing happened lmfaooo man, fuck this country.

[Matt🍫 @jbmillenial]

Guys please I want everybody to know that it is not a normal occurrence for kidnappers to stroll into schools, kidnap students and teachers and behead the teacher and the leadership of the country is quiet about it, trust me it’s not a normal thing politics aside!

[Prolific🏁 @KolawoleToluw11]

Person dey ruin and waste the productive stage of our lives Una dy say he sabi politics. 🤦🏽‍♂️💔

[Arojinle @arojinle1]

No no no no... This is sad and unacceptable. Our white-bellied pangolins are already endangered while our black-bellied are vulnerable. Nigeria and Nigerians don't have money or budget for tackling large scale termite invasion. We'll be in serious trouble if we lose our pangolins.

@NOA_Nigeria and @NESREANigeria, you guys need to partner together and work on massive education and orientation of our people towards preservation of these important species. We cannot continue like this.

Do not hunt or kill pangolins.

[Rapstaman @Da_Rapstaman]

Guys please I don’t know how to verify these men, dem just come the lekki toll gate and cut off the security cameras. Saying they are from the government, hmm 🤔

[Paul Ayodele Onanuga @Nugadel]

@ayomercy2011 @emmanuelade2013 your president

[News Central TV @NewsCentralTV]

"You have no light at the airport, and I have to fly back within the next 10 minutes... To the victims, there's nothing I can give you but promise you this experience will not repeat itself."

Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu says that his government will do its best to support the victims.