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A revealing exchange between activist Omoyele Sowore and a Fulani herder carrying a fortune in cash has crystallized a national dilemma: deep-seated public mistrust in institutions and the human cost of economic exclusion. The incident, recounted by Sowore from his 2018 presidential campaign travels, saw a herder explain that he was moving with his child and roughly 1,000 cows while physically carrying over 40 million naira. When Sowore suggested using a bank, the man's response was blunt and telling: "The banker is a thief. I don't want them to take my money." This vignette, shared widely on social media, points to a failure to integrate vast segments of the population into the formal economy. For the herder, the immense risk of traveling with cash was preferable to the perceived risk of financial institutions. From Activist to Presidential Candidate The story gains weight coming from Omoyele Sowore, a longstanding figure in Nigeri...

In the mosaic of Nigeria's modern history, few figures cast as long a shadow as Lieutenant General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (Rtd) GCON. His journey from a modest Takum farm to the apex of military command, corporate boardrooms, and political corridors is a tale of one man’s intimate entanglement with the fate of a nation.  At 87, he stands not merely as an elder statesman, but as a living archive. As former Senate President Bukola Saraki observed in a birthday tribute, Danjuma "speaks with the authority of a man who has seen it all". His influence, forged in the furnace of war and consolidated in the marketplace of power, has earned him both reverence and reproach.  This is the story of TY Danjuma: the soldier, the businessman, the politician, and the patriarch who, for better or worse, helped shape modern Nigeria. Part 1 : From Takum to the Barracks: The Making of a Soldier Born on 9 December 1938 in Takum, Taraba State, Theophilus Ya...