Abiodun Olujimi used to be a senator in Ekiti State. She became widely known around the last general elections, amidst a terrific supremacy battle between her and former governor, Ayodele Fayose.

The two belonged to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but Fayose didn’t want her to return to the Senate. He was said to have supported Dayo Adeyeye of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who eventually won the seat. But now, thanks to the election tribunal, Adeyeye has been sacked.

That was a rude shock to Fayose, who had done everything possible to relegate Olujimi from politics. But aside from that, what’s more interesting was that Adeyeye won the election with both Fayose’s political weight and that of the incumbent governor, Kayode Fayemi.

Read full story here: https://qwenu.com/2019/09/11/how-biodun-olujimi-defeated-both-fayemi-and-fayose-in-ekiti/

Until his death, former Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe lived lavishly in this mouth-watering mansion, popularly called the Blue Roof. It is an estate on its own, and it’s worth £8million. What else would one call a residence that occupies 44 acres of land, if not an estate?

It was learnt that the mansion is more than three times the size of Zimbabwe’s State House. It was where Mugabe spent his days after his ouster from power in 2018. To protect the house, no fewer than four uniformed police officers patrol the perimeter 24 hours a day.

It is reportedly made up of three separate title deeds – the first two bought in 1987 by the M & S Syndicate Ltd, set up seven years earlier.


The Architecture and design of the residence speak of grandeur and lavish taste, right from the gate to every part of the mansion itself.

See more pictures here: https://qwenu.com/2019/09/10/inside-the-8-million-mansion-where-robert-mugabe-used-to-live/

This week will be the most competitive since the fourth season of Big Brother Nigeria began in June. Khafi Kareem, Mike Edwards, Tacha Akide and Seyi Awolowo will be fighting the hard battle of staying at the House beyond Sunday.

Now that it’s very likely that two housemates will leave, the battle even becomes much tougher among fans. No doubt, these four are housemates to beat any day. But among other factors that will shape the voting pattern, the cold war between Seyi and Tacha are the most significant ones.

Continue reading here: https://qwenu.com/2019/09/10/bbnaija-will-seyi-end-up-like-enkay-over-fight-with-tacha/

Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, on Saturday claimed that will replicate the legacy of continuity instituted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos. In his own mind, he’s working to make Osun a permanent state for APC, thus stiffening the chances of opposition parties in future elections.

It’s surprising that Oyetola has quickly forgotten the politics that brought him to power in 2018; how the election remains an unresolved moral issue, even after the supreme court ruling. Welcome to Osun, where most people belong to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but the APC is ruling.

Continue reading here: https://qwenu.com/2019/09/09/opposition-politics-what-osun-governor-gboyega-oyetola-doesnt-know/

Governor Yahaya Bello has kept boasting that he will return as Kogi State governor during the election in November. But only a few people will know that he was barely saved by his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Buhari.

He had also debunked claims that his administration was owing civil servants 38 months’ salaries. He said that he had cleared all outstanding workers’ salaries and pensioners’ claims in the state before August 28, this year. That backlog would have been his undoing, but for the ₦30bn special bailout from the presidency.

Read full story here: https://qwenu.com/2019/09/09/yahaya-bello-would-have-lost-in-kogi-if-not-for-a-single-reason/#

No arguing it, Nigeria is battling with quite many challenges. From insecurity and high crime rate to high unemployment and economic slowdown, there are enough reasons to conclude that Nigeria has reached its endpoint.

However, Femi Falana, a human rights lawyer, has this idea of how we can achieve the standard of living and the economic prospect across the board. His suggestion was that the federal government give each of the 774 local government areas in Nigeria at least ₦1 billion from the funds it recovered since 1999.

Falana said this during his speech at the 20th Mike Okonkwo Annual Lecture in Lagos on Thursday. He said the fund will be used for creating jobs for women and the youth at the grassroots and subsequently curb crime rates in the country.

“The Federal Government has recovered huge sums of money from looters. One of the policies of the government, the whistle-blowing policy, has fetched the country N605 billion as of three months ago,” Falana said.

Continue reading here: https://qwenu.com/2019/09/06/how-nigeria-can-solve-its-problems-with-₦774bn/

Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the immediate past president of Zimbabwe, was in the league of South Africa’s Nelson Mandela in the race against colonialism. If not for his oppressive leadership style, his name would have remained indelible in the minds of Africans as a liberation icon.

He was born on 21 February 1924 in what was then Rhodesia – a British colony, run by its white minority.

In 1964, he was jailed for criticising the government, spending more than 10 years in prison without trial.

In 1973, while still in prison, he was chosen as president of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). That prepared grounds for the revolution against white supremacists, which he led a few years later.

In 1980, Mugabe secured an overwhelming victory in the Republic of Zimbabwe’s first election in 1980. He served as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017. That was the beginning of a pseudo-democratic leadership that got him poor international perceptions, with an increasing number of critics portraying him as a dictator.

Continue reading here: https://qwenu.com/2019/09/06/11-unforgettable-dates-about-late-zimbabwes-president-robert-mugabe/

Popular lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has given an idea of how best President Buhari’s Federal Government can address the ongoing xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa.

Falana maintained that the government is supposed to sue the South Africa Government to demand compensation for Nigerian victims of the xenophobic attack in the foreign country.

His premise was that South Africa owed its liberation from apartheid rule to the supports of Nigeria and many other African nations. And if only for that reason, Nigerian deserves better treatment than Xenophobia.

His first recommendation: Nigeria should boycott the World Economic Forum scheduled to commence in South Africa on September 4. Earlier on Wednesday, the FG already did this.

Continue reading here: https://qwenu.com/2019/09/04/south-africa-owes-us-compensation-for-every-attack-on-nigerians/

Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, has revealed that the Federal Government is exploring ways to escape paying the heavy $9.6bn fine imposed against it in favour of Irish firm, Process and Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID).

According to him, expecting that Nigeria will surrender up to $9.6bn in asset is dubious, and would not stand further litigation. But how does Mohammed expect this to happen, especially when P&ID is already profiling Nigerian assets for seizure?

Continue reading here: https://qwenu.com/2019/09/04/lai-mohammed-on-pid-nobody-can-just-come-and-take-away-our-9-6bn/

Reno Omokri, on Tuesday, indicted President Buhari for being tribalistic in his approach to dealing with the current spate of xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa.

According to him, “the President is not bothered about the killings of Nigerians in South Africa because he feels that most Nigerians there are Igbos. They are 5 percenters. If he wanted to, he could act fast. Remember how fast he acted with Zainab Aliyu in Saudi Arabia?”

The claim has since raised eyebrows with many Nigerians agreeing with Omokri that Buhari has truly been nonchalant, and acting below the standard expected of a leader.

Read reactions here: https://qwenu.com/2019/09/03/xenophobia-president-buhari-under-fire-for-allegedly-playing-the-tribalism-card/

Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki used to be a formidable figure in Nigerian politics. His reign and political prowess appeared undefeatable until the last National Assembly elections, which left him ‘politically dead.”

However, there are reports that Saraki, who had also served as a governor of his state, Kwara, for eight years, is making frantic efforts to return to political limelight. It’s a step political watchers believe won’t be anyway easy for the erstwhile political godfather.

Sources close to the move told Guardian that. Saraki “recently held a closed-door meeting at his ‘Ileloke’ White House Ilorin residence with representatives of his followers across the existing 16 councils in the state.

Continue reading here: https://qwenu.com/2019/09/03/can-bukola-saraki-return-to-political-relevance-in-nigeria/#

Abdulaziz Yari, the immediate past governor of Zamfara, has come out for the first time to dismiss the fraud allegations levelled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Speaking from his home in the North-Western state on Sunday, Yari said. “I challenge anyone who says I personalized government property or funds within and outside the country while as governor to come forward and expose me.

The EFCC has in early August combed Yari’s home, as well as those of his brother, Jafaru and his intimate friend, Sha’aya Mafara. About 21 exotic vehicles were found in his compound.

Read full story here: https://qwenu.com/2019/09/02/as-a-governor-my-business-was-to-spend-money-ex-zamfara-governor-yari-comments-on-fraud-allegations/#

The Nigerian movie industry is the haven of failed marriages, and there are just too many incidences to prove that. One of the very recent is the collapse of IK Ogbonna’s marriage to Sonia. It caught everyone unawares.

But while many people believe that such happens because of the nature of the job, and the supposed marriage-crashing attention it brings, popular actress, Ronke Ojo, aka Ronke Oshodi-Oke, thinks otherwise.

Read full story here: https://qwenu.com/2019/09/02/high-rate-of-divorce-in-nollywood-ronke-oshodi-oke-explains-the-real-reason

Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Gabduje, has lent his voice to the speculations sponsored by Kaduna state colleague, Nasir El-Rufai that Nigeria should favour competence over zoning in selecting presidents.

Ganduje noted that El-Rufai’s way is not totally bad, and could be adopted if it offers a political advantage.

In his own words, “the way I look at it is that it is an issue between idealism and realism. Idealism is a situation whereby things should be done in accordance with the ideals. If things are done like that, then everybody should have equal treatment and everybody has equal chance to contest and then, what the people decide should be done.”

Continue reading here: https://qwenu.com/2019/08/30/kano-governor-abdullahi-ganduje-reacts-to-nasir-el-rufais-stand-against-zoning-proffers-solution-to-herdsmen-crisis/

Timipre Sylva, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, has described Nigeria’s way of doing oil business as a complete joke and a laughing stock.

Sylva was last week named as the helmsman for the petroleum ministry, acting as a deputy to President Buhari himself. He replaced Ibe Kachikwu, who led the four-year transformation of the oil and gas sector since 2015.

He spoke on the state of the industry in Abuja on Thursday while hosting delegates from Total Exploration and Production, Nigeria, led by Mike Sangster, its managing director.

According to Sylva, Nigeria must reduce the cost of production of its crude oil in order to prevent further loss. “We have to bring down our cost of production of crude, as we are presently a laughing stock in the way we do our business,” he said.

Sylva also explained that the practice of selling the country’s asset as being done by some multinational oil companies is wrong. He said the reserves in the country were growing lesser than expected, adding that it was time the country produced more.

“Those assets are amortised assets; you can’t sell what you don’t have. The quicker we produce our oil, the better for us. The industry has to grow. We need to look at exploration. Our reserves are growing far less than expected,” he said.

On the industry’s regulation and the stalled petroleum industry governance bill (PIGB), the minister said, “we need to tidy up the regulatory environment with the National Assembly. I have called the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation for us to meet with the National Assembly and have a timeline which we can announce to the world,” he said.

“We also need to harmonise the laws so that we don’t have too many with which we can regulate the industry.”

Source: https://qwenu.com/2019/08/30/nigerias-oil-industry-a-complete-joke-petroleum-minister-timipre-sylva/

Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), may have unknowingly opened the can of worms after accusing the Presidency of plotting to frame former president Olusegun Obasanjo.

Atiku had on Monday alleged that, in an attempt to rope Obasanjo into a crime, President Buhari’s government officials allegedly asked the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to “falsely and libellously” include Obasanjo Farm in a published list of tax evaders. He also cited some other media trials being sponsored by the EFCC.

But sources within the presidency told TheNation, that “when Mr Atiku Abubakar reflects on some of the things he said of President Obasanjo, he will realize that having framed the former President so well in the past, Obasanjo cannot anymore be framed by anyone, no matter how he tries.

Read full story here: https://qwenu.com/2019/08/28/how-atiku-indicted-obasanjo-on-failed-16bn-power-project-other-corrupt-practices/

Omoyele Sowore, the convener of #RevolutionNow, has spent 23 days in the detention of the Department of State Services (DSS) over allegations of plotting to topple the government of President Mohammadu Buhari. Since his detention, he has been kept away from the public, thus denying him the chance to explain his side of the story.

But on Tuesday, Sowore opened up, stating categorically that he did not plot to topple the government. He explained that his action was directed at expressing his displeasure with the current state of affairs in the country.

He said: “President Muhammadu Buhari and other leaders of the ruling party had led street protests in the past which the Applicant/Respondent claimed were planned to overthrow the federal government.

Read full story here: https://qwenu.com/2019/08/28/finally-omoyele-sowore-speaks-on-revolutionnow-denying-any-alleged-plan-to-overthrow-president-buhari/

Zainab Ahmed, the Minister of Finance, has revealed that the current challenge with the Nigerian economy is not debt problem, despite the seemingly obvious ‘caged’ situation of the country. 

Ahmed dismissed negative insinuations about the country’s debt situation, noting that the problem Nigeria had at the moment was a revenue problem rather than debt challenge.

Read full story here: https://qwenu.com/2019/08/27/finance-minister-zainab-ahmed-reveals-the-actual-problem-with-nigerias-economy/

Dr Obadiah Mailafia, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the 2019 elections, has explained why Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai will be a calamity as a president.

Speaking to ThePunch’s Tunde Jaja on the recent moves by El-Rufai to stop ‘zoning’ in elections, he said, “the 1999 constitution does not require ‘zoning’ as such. However, I believe that evolving constitutional conventions and norms lead us ineluctably in that direction.

“Governor Nasir el-Rufai is evidently a man of ambition, and often susceptible to grand self-delusions of the order of Bonaparte. Obasanjo in his memoirs describes him (el-Rufai) as someone who is loyal only to himself.

Continue reading here: https://qwenu.com/2019/08/27/what-to-expect-if-kaduna-governor-nasir-el-rufai-becomes-the-president/

Emmanuel Zopmal, the president of the Middle Belt Youth Council, has admitted that the North has remained the most unproductive region in Nigeria despite its political advantage.

Speaking in an interview with Guardian, Zopmal believes that, for the past 59 years, the Northern Region has been what President Donald Trump called us a “shithole” region.

He said, “the insatiable appetite for political power by northern elites is the bane of Nigeria’s political development and economic growth. There’s no purposeful and committed programme of action, either by the central governments controlled by northern elites over the years nor by the political leaders at the state level in the nineteen states.

Continue reading here: https://qwenu.com/2019/08/26/north-shithole-region-northern-group-admits/

Olawale Oluwo, a former Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources in Lagos State, who served under ex-governor, Akinwumi Ambode, spoke about how his former boss was hounded out of office by the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Oluwo was at the Afang Summit in July, where he lamented that Ambode was manipulated and consequently compelled to surrender his second term chance.

On how Ambode lost his public credibility, he said, “one side was busy feeding the public with a negative story. I was not only a government official, I was also close to him and I was a member of his kitchen cabinet.

Read full story here: https://qwenu.com/2019/08/26/tinubu-hounded-ambode-olawale-oluwo/

President Muhammadu Buhari has affirmed that Kaduna and Kano states won a special place in his heart during the 2019 elections with the number of votes he got from the two North-Western states.

The president was talking on why he dolled out two senior positions in his cabinet to the two states. He noted that it’s his way of appreciating the massive votes he received during this year’s presidential election.

In Kano, Buhari got 1, 464,768 votes – the highest in the country. Then, Kanu gave him 993, 445 votes.

Read full story here: https://qwenu.com/2019/08/23/president-buhari-kano-and-kaduna-top-my-list-of-favourite-states/

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday indicted some Nigerians accused of running business email scam and money laundering schemes. Thom Mrozek, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Central District of California, said the 80 suspects arrested following a raid in Los Angeles, were mostly Nigerians.

The investigation has also revealed the identities of 77 more Nigerians who are now being hunted worldwide. But how exactly did the FBI managed to trace the scheme? It all started with the case of a Japanese woman who was deceived with non-existent diamonds.

The Japanese woman, known only as “F.K.” in court papers, was said to have begun a relationship innocently in March 2016 with someone named Garcia, a self-professed military officer in Syria. But soon, “Garcia” made “romantic overtures.”. He told her they couldn’t talk by phone because he wasn’t allowed to use one in Syria.

Continue reading here: https://qwenu.com/2019/08/23/details-fbi-traced-caught-nigerian-yahoo-boys/

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has revealed how the embattled founder of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo, frustrated its investigation into the allegation of rape again him.

The committee set up by the PFN to prove the rape claim against him by Busola Dakolo, the wife of popular artiste, Timi Dakolo, had to declare the investigation conclusive on Thursday.

The PFN National Publicity Secretary, Bishop Emma Isong, lamented that Fatoyinbo refused to honour its invitations, despite efforts by the committee members and leadership of the Christian body.

Read full story here: https://qwenu.com/2019/08/23/busola-dakolo-how-fatoyinbo-frustrated-pfns-investigation/

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, sworn in the ministers that’ll work with him for the next four years. The 43 nominees include 17 politicians who served in his first term, and the rest came from the political players of 2019 elections.

Among the returning ministers are Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, and Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation. These two are too significant to Buhari’s government that everyone believes they’ll most likely return as ministers.

To confirm this, the two have also opened up on how they walked their way to the new cabinet.

Read full article here: https://qwenu.com/2019/08/22/rotimi-amaechi-lai-mohammed-share-how-they-made-it-to-president-buharis-second-term/

The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has pointed fingers at Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as being involved in the move to topple President Buhari.

The group, which asked Tinubu not feign ignorance of the #RevolutionNow movement, suggests that the APC leader is interested in the ruckus being created by Omoyele Sowore, the convener of the movement.

In a statement by the CNG’s spokesman, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, on Tuesday in Kaduna, the group rubbishes Tinubu’s concept of nationalism. It said Tinubu could not have claimed to be patriotic when his allies were the ones organising a revolution protest against President Muhammadu Buhari.

Continue reading here: https://qwenu.com/2019/08/21/omoyele-sowore-northerners-says-tinubu-may-have-a-hand-in-revolutionnow/

Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, a founding member of the Arewa Consultative Forum, is one of the most detribalised Nigerians. From his words on national issues to his actions in the political space, he has repeatedly proven that his interest in national development transcends ethnic sentiments.

He recently featured in an interview to discuss the incoming team of President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term in office. He explained why he thought the same stories, blame game and excuses will again repeat themselves.

On his expectations, he said “From 2015 when Buhari was elected to date, the solution I expected to happen to our problems – lack of power, unemployment, poverty, insecurity; they are, even more, they are worse than they were in 2015.

Continue reading: https://qwenu.com/2019/08/21/why-buharis-second-term-may-be-another-failure-presidents-kinsman-yankasai/#

Babatunde Fowler, the chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), has said the country’s economic potentials are still very weak, despite having exited recession since late 2016.

Fowler was responding to a query issued to him by the chief of staff to President Buhari, Abba Kyari, on the poor revenue from tax collections under his leadership at FIRS.

In the letter dated August 8, 2019, Kyari gave Fowler up till August 19 to explain the reasons “for the poor collections”.

Read full story here: https://qwenu.com/2019/08/20/firs-chair-fowler-agrees-that-nigerian-economy-falling/

Former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, was on Saturday attacked in Germany while attending the Second Annual Cultural Festival and Convention organised by Ndi-Igbo.

Members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), who were blamed for the attack, have also come out to claim responsibility. But on his return to Nigeria on Monday, Ekweremadu narrated his ordeal in the hands of the ‘misguided’ attackers.

In an interview at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, he described his assault as an action carried out by a few misguided individuals, who were on drugs.

Read full story here: https://qwenu.com/2019/08/20/how-it-actually-happened-ekweremadu-narrates-his-experience-in-germany/

Ede Nkechiyere, also know as Enkay is one of the two housemates who left the Big Brother House at the eviction night on Sunday.

While Enkay was part of the losing team ‘The Icons’, Joe was part of the winning team ‘Cruisetopia’ but was put up for eviction by Diane with her power of the chance card.

The race to eviction started when Biggie divided housemates into two different teams named ‘The Icons’ and ‘Cruisetopia’ to compete in challenges/tasks.

Some members of The Icons Cindy, Elozonam, Enkay, Frodd, Ike, Khafi, Omashola, Joe and Tacha were all put up for possible eviction for failing the nomination task.

Enkay’s exit was quite ignoble, with just 0.88% of votes. She had earned public anger after her impolite and rude actions towards fellow housemate, Cindy.

See the reactions here: https://qwenu.com/2019/08/19/how-nigerians-reacted-to-the-eviction-of-enkay-from-big-brother-house/

Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, left Nigerians appalled after his open support of the attack on former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.

Ekweremadu was attacked on Saturday while attending an event in Germany, but Kanu’s position was that the incident was just the beginning for Igbo leaders.

To begin with, he announced this in a live broadcast on the Radio Biafra, that “if you are working in any Government House in Southeast and you know which city in the world the governors are going to be, inform us so that we will mobilize for him and you will be rewarded with N1m.”

Read full article here: https://qwenu.com/2019/08/19/shocking-details-of-what-nnamdi-kanu-said-about-Igbos-attack-on-ike-ekweremadu/

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has joined other stakeholders to condemn the move by President Muhammadu Buhari to stop food importation in the country. Kola Ologbondiyan, the party’s spokesman lamented that the move is not only ill-timed but is also against the wellbeing of Nigerians.

The President had earlier this week ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to stop providing foreign exchange for importation of food into the country, based on “the steady improvement in agricultural production, and attainment of full food security.”

The PDP, in its reaction statement by Kola Ologbondiyan, said, “the Buhari Presidency and the APC have again demonstrated their insensitivity towards millions of Nigerians who are already suffering acute hunger and starvation due to severe food shortage and high prices brought by President Buhari’s misrule.

Continue reading here: https://qwenu.com/2019/08/16/food-ban-pdps-spokesman-kola-ologbondiyan-comes-down-hard-on-president-buhari/