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The Peoples Trust (PT) and third force presidential candidate, Mr Olawepo Hashim has set out the criteria to select a Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor to restructure the economy for growth and indigenous technology should he emerge as President of Nigeria in 2019. The global business mogul stated that, the governor of central bank must be somebody who aligns with the vision to completely restructure the Nigerian economy, to make it a productive economy. ‘’You cannot be a central bank governor that is beholding to the interest of money lender almost in the past 20 years and the bankers and money lender have been controlling the central bank and the central bank has been ordered along their interests rather than along the mandate of building a solid productive economy and creating employment’’. He remarked on the current practice by CBN: ‘’They only see employment creation as CSR (corporate social responsibility) to demonstrate that they are intervening. You are not just su...

Businessman and front line politician, Mr Gbenga Olawepo Hashim has declared that with collective steadfastness, Nigeria will surely emerge from the socio-economic challenges strongrt. He made this remark at a public lecture delivered at the Post Graduate College, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Osun State. Mr Hashim stated that, an agenda for all round national development is clearly possible not just for the development of the nation but for a transformation for generations yet unborn. At the event chaired by the University’s vice-chancellor, Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede, Hashim agreed that though slight progress has been made since the advent of democracy in Nigeria between 1999-2015, the nation still remains “underdeveloped” by regular classification. “With 62 percent of the population living below $2 a day and considered poor, with life expectancy of 51 years, and over 40% illiterate population, bedeviled with a parlous infrastructure such as poor electricity distrib...