Gbenga Kayode

Yearly, scores of young men and women are churned out as graduates of differing academic disciplines from the nation’s institutions of higher learning into the country’s profoundly saturated Labour market...

Terrorism is no doubt a global security problem. The frightening phenomenon manifests itself in forms of suicide bombings, arson, kidnapping, murder, false imprisonment, and the like, all of which deny peoples of their rights to life and personal liberty...

In line with Mrs. Farida Waziri, EFCC’s Executive Chairman’s recent submission at a forum for the newly inaugurated legislators, leaders should be made to publish what they earn from the tax payers’ money...

The reported continued depletion in the ranks of senior academics as PhD holders and professors in institutions of higher learning across Nigeria in recent times calls a pressing redress...

The recent strident and repeated calls on the Federal Government of Nigeria by a broad spectrum of the population to review, or completely scrap the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme may not be misplaced after all...

In today’s international system, the concept of national character is one of the definitive, critical criteria being applied in according a nation-state such as Nigeria, due respect. More so, the notion remains a subject of historical, socio-political debate and development at different forums...

Any concerned Nigerian, old or comparatively young, who was perhaps familiar with how the age-long, good societal value system of honesty, integrity, decency, hard work, communal living and good neighbourliness held sway in the not-too-distant past among the various tribes and communities across the country, ordinarily would screech at what has become of leadership at differing levels in different sectors of the national economy...

There may not be a better a time to remind Nigeria and Nigerians of the need to reflect on and re-assess the contributions of individuals, groups, organisations and governments to the current state of the nation...