Gbenga Kayode

Perhaps, aside from the harrowing experience of the unfortunate 30-month Civil War that raged between 1967 and 1970, which virtually tore apart the nation’s social fabric still dangerously holding the people together till this day, the parlous, testy state of affairs in Nigeria’s socio-economic and political systems in recent times definitely calls for an urgent remedy...

Described as belated in certain quarters, Nigeria’s 2012 Budget proposal and the continual pervasive disputation over the touchy fuel subsidy issue and sectoral budgetary allocations in the Appropriation Bill, especially on the Security sector of the nation - have been attracting assorted comments...

For decades now, Nigeria as a sovereign nation has been battling with the disturbing issue of phantom names on Government personnel payroll and in pensions audit results...

With the unsettling, rife social tensions resulting from biting poverty, youth unemployment, hunger, inflation, power failure, insecurity of lives and property and social dislocations across the land, the Federal Government urgently needs to dialogue with the ASUU leadership...

In this era of technological revolution, a sequel of the industrial era, Nigeria should jump on the bandwagon of promising knowledge economy that predominantly drives the development of new technologies, skills, strategies, processes, procedures and aptitudes to revive the nation’s comatose industrial sector...

Being a distressed continent in terms of marked improvement in all areas of human development, it would be recalled that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in 2001, accordingly had described Africa as a “scar on the conscience of the world”...

It is disheartening to note that even long before the advent of the continued economic and financial meltdown, which started manifesting late 2008, and still troubles the global economy up till now, a sizeable number of Nigerian businesses apparently, had found the country’s business climate tough and unfriendly...

The recent, far-reaching resolution of the Federal Government of Nigeria to urge the Executive Cabinet Ministers in the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Administration to sign performance contracts with the Presidency is a welcome development...