A wave of reactions have been sparked on social media after a prominent Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, spoke against the nationwide protests against hunger in the land scheduled for August 1 to 10. Igboho…
From 1966 to 1999, Nigeria was uninterruptedly governed by a military government, except for the short-lived return to democracy in the Second Republic, which was 1979 to 1983. That period happened to be the period of radicalization and political…
Cyber-security specialist Exclusive Networks Africa has announced the imminent departure of long-serving managing director, Anton Jacobsz, who will remain a shareholder with the organisation as well as serving in an advisory capacity moving forward. Jacobsz today advised that he would…
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, restrained INEC from releasing the national voter register to the Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission (KWSIEC) for the conduct of local government elections. Justice Peter Lifu, in a ruling on an ex-parte…
THE District Head of Bosso in Minna Emirate Council in Niger State, Alhaji Mu’azu Adamu Laka Bosso, has relieved one Abdulahi Isah, aka Biodun, of the title: Wakilin Matasan Bosso. According to Daily Trust, the traditional title holder was reportedly…
THE Senate says it will tackle all issues of unclaimed dividends in the capital market with the collaboration of stakeholders. Chairman, Senate Committee on Capital Market, Sen. Osita Izunaso said this at a public hearing on “Unclaimed Dividend Fund” held…
THE United Bank for Africa (UBA) has refused to accept a letter from the Take-It-Back Movement, a pro-democracy group, demanding that their account be unfrozen. Trojan News understands that the account was allegedly frozen on the instructions of Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of…
THE Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, said on Monday that President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of a Mandate Secretariat for Youth Affairs in the FCT. Wike made the disclosure during an interactive engagement…
THERE was a quote I read in a small but fascinating book some two decades ago that I can longer quote verbatim. It had to do with the de-contextualization and interrogation of held believes and theories by successive generations. That…
THE politics of monopoly and oligarchy are familiar phenomena in Nigeria and beyond. During General Abacha’s military rule in the 1990s, while working at the Federal Ministry of Finance, I witnessed first-hand the plight of a retired military officer who…
