[3] He was also made a 21st Century Trust Fellow in April 1991 after a programme on the subject of Human Rights in International Relations, which took place at Worcester College, University of Oxford, under the supervision of two fellows Professor Kevin Boyle, director of Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, UK, and Ambassador Olara Otunnu, president of the International Peace Academy, New York.

When Kayode finished at BBHS, he picked a clerical job with PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc in Ilupeju, Lagos.

Kayode worked closely as a special assistant, confidant and trusted lieutenant of the billionaire publisher and international businessman for over four years, establishing and running the London office of the newspaper conglomerate.

In the piece, which Bernard Levin, the respected political commentator and columnist of the London Sunday Times described in his column in the newspaper's 18 July 1993 edition, as the "most passionate account" on the Nigerian political crisis he had read, Kayode denounced the election invalidation by the military dictator President Ibrahim Babangida as "a fraud and a grand deception".

This meeting took place at the Bishop's Court in Cape Town, after which, the clergyman visited General Abacha as President Nelson Mandela’s emissary.

This relationship continued and was strengthened when Giwa and some of his colleagues, Ray Ekpu, Yakubu Mohammed, and Dan Agbese, established Nigeria's news magazine Newswatch, and appointed Kayode, who was then working under the Nigerian journalist and publisher Peter Enahoro as General Editor of Africa Now, the London Bureau Chief.

He met and interviewed statesmen such as the late South African President Nelson Mandela;[8][9] Nobel Peace Prize-winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu; the assassinated South African freedom fighter Chris Hani; the late former British Prime Minister James Callaghan; former British Foreign Secretary and deputy Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Howe (later Lord Howe); former British Foreign Secretary Dr David Owen (later Lord Owen); former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo; former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga; former American United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young; Sir Shridath Ramphal and Chief Emeka Anyaoku, both former Secretaries-General of the Commonwealth, and many more.

[10] Early February 2002 when former British Prime Minister Tony Blair embarked on his first tour of West Africa, Kayode featured in the official entourage.

In 2015, Kayode had the honour of being invited by Prime Minister Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda to be part of the small Caribbean island's delegation to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Malta.

[3][13] The work was about the failed attempt by the Nigerian military regime in 1984 to kidnap and export out of the United Kingdom the former Minister of Transport, Alhaji Umaru Dikko.

In 2023, he also wrote INSPIRING LEADERSHIP, the autobiography of Architect Darius Dickson Ishaku, who was a two-term Governor of Taraba State, Nigeria.