Gbenga Kayode

Gbenga Kayode, a media professional, writes from Lagos.

CBN, nationalised banks and investors

Numerous stakeholders in the financial industry and Nigerians in general have well-observed over time, that Malam Sanusi’s carefree and occasionally inconsistent policy pronouncements on certain burning fiscal issues concerning Nigerian and foreign investors alike, leave much to be desired...

Controversy over Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Fund

Amid collapsed infrastructure, youth unemployment and festering poverty across the land, some of these state chief executives in particular, must further be educated on the need to efficiently manage this superfluous national wealth, by investing in potential assets...

Maximising N50bn youth employment fund

It’s with unparalleled delight that a cross section of Nigerians, especially the youth population, learned about and commended President Goodluck Jonathan Administration’s recent launch of N50billion fund for job creation...

NCC, SIM Registration and misinformation

There has been a litany of complaints of double registration, defective data-capturing approach and needless SIM deactivation cases after due registration by telecom service subscribers...

Reading culture and mass exam failures

In connection with a deliberate, orchestrated attempt at discouraging countless students from engaging in any thorough academic studies and excel academically any longer, careful checks have revealed that most private school proprietors/proprietresses, owners of registered/unregistered tutorial centres scattered all over the country are culpable and neck-deep in perpetrating exam malpractices...

FG/ASUU’s endless industrial dispute

The current Administration should learn to honour agreements with individual Nigerians, groups, associations, or professional bodies by shedding the toga of official irresponsibility and destructive divide-and-rule tactics...

Intelligence, insecurity and Nigeria’s economy

The killings in some parts of the country including bombings, kidnappings and fatal armed robbery attacks being perpetrated on a daily basis with barefaced brutality must stop if this economy is to survive and make any headway...

Sambo, leadership and Northern development agenda

As a cultured professional who is in the know, one thinks it will be somewhat hard for anyone to fault the Vice-President on painting the real picture of how many of the Northern political leaders with requisite huge resources to effect meaningful socio-economic development have cornered such to the detriment of the millions of their  people...

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