ABSTRACT The study examines the role of commercial banks in Agricultural development in Nigeria, spanning from 1986-2010. The study used Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) techniques for analyzing the findings, from the study, support the view that commercial bank loans do not reach real farmers. Commercial banks loan to the Agricultural sector has a positive growth and significant at 5% level, contributing 67.65 percent variations in Real Agricultural output in Nigeria. Real interest rate a...
ABSTRACT Security challenges is one of the major social problems confronting not only Sokoto Metropolis or Nigeria in general, but most of the third world countries and some other parts of the world. Street children are often found to be active participants in most of the social uprisings that were witnessed in some parts of Nigeria, particularly Sokoto metropolis. The quest to find out why and how the number of street children is increasing and how it affects the level of security prompted t...
ABSTRACT This study is to examine impact of product innovation on the performance of manufacturing company with a specific reference to Nigerian Bottling Company Plc, Kaduna. The fundamental objectives of the study are to identify the impact of product innovation on the sales of Nigerian Bottling Company Plc, to determine how product innovation improve on the profit of the organization and to ascertain the level of consumers’ satisfaction of the company. The primary and secondary sour...
ABSTRACT The hostility of community member towards immunization has been a concern to the health workers and this has been attributed to their cultural belief. The objective of this study is therefore to examine cultural beliefs and immunization of children. 120 questionnaire were administered were designed for three categories of respondents who are parent, health personnel’s and traditional and religious leaders. Each group mentioned was administered with 40 questionnaires each as they we...
Abstract This research sought to unearth the role of financing in the sudden downturn in the operational cycle of Cool Ice Private Limited and its overall effect on SMEs’ viability in the manufacturing sector of Jaggers, Msasa, Harare Industrial Area. Literature was reviewed on the views of different writers on SME financing and linked to the Case study. The literature cited high borrowing costs, lack of collateral and high risk profile as the major constraints on SMEs financing. Various ef...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at assessing Climate Change Adaptation Strategies (CCAS) in crops production in semi-arid areas. The study focused on assessing the effectiveness of climate change adaptation on maize and grapes production in Hombolo. Specifically, the study assessed how climate change variability affected crops; assessing different strategies used to address the impacts of CC on crops production and investigating challenges to implement CCAS in the production of crops. Oral intervi...
ABSTRACT The study to assess the contribution of support for community initiated project on Communities livelihood was conducted at Vumari and Kisiwani Barazani villages, in Same District. Case study research design was adapted. Data were collected by using household questionnaire surveys, Interviews and Focus Group Discussion (FGD). A total of 127 respondents were involved in the study. Information obtained through households questionnaire, was analyzed by using a Statistical Package for So...
Abstract Mobile money is an important phenomenon for the cause of financial inclusion in developing countries. The value and volume of both mobile money transactions and payment systems transactions have tredemously increased in Ghana. This study sought to investigate the adoption of mobile money by Ghanaians, using members of the University of Ghana Legon campus as case study. The study adopted questionnaires as the sole instrument for data collection. The findings reveal that dominant use ...
ABSTRACT Maintaining peace and order is essential in every society. Security in democratic states become challenging for the specialized force responsible for keeping order known as the police. This work examines the Nigerian Police Divisional Headquarters Kabala Doki Kaduna State concerning security challenges during the 2015 election. The methodology used in this research are qualitative and quantitative, interview and questionnaire were used in collecting data .The research used theory of ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine banks, on investments and performance appraisal. It was also to ascertain the problems of using financial reports to access performance of banks and finally to determine if there’s a relationship between financial reporting and performance evaluation of a bank. The inductive research method was adopted and the statistical analysts, particularly the chi-square and t-distribution test were used in the analysis of the data collected from ...
ABSTRACT Nigeria has earned an appellation for herself as a show case of Africa’s democracy for several score of years. Ironically, every journey towards such democratic process/experience had been laden with electoral violence even since the colonial days. With the rebirth of African liberalism and the wave of democratic consolidation process that swept across the globe/world in the 1990’s, electoral violence returned in a more frightening dimension in most African states. It is, therefo...
TABLE OF CONTENT Title Page ...........................i Approval Page ......................ii Dedication ..............................iii Acknowledgment .......................iv Table of Content .........................v CHAPTER ONE 1.1 Introduction .............................1 1.2 Statement of the problem ...........................2 1.3 Research Questions ................................3 1.4 Aim and objectives of the study ............................3 1.5 Justification and signif...
Background to the Study One of the important aspects of the production of goods and services is the proper distribution of the same in such a manner that it will reach the target consumers in the most cost-effective and expeditious manner. Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, delivering and communicating value to customers, and customer relationship management that also benefits the organization. Marketing is the science of...
ABSTRACT Women empowerment, financing in business is very vital and of utmost importance because of the level of which our global world is moving. This project work is aimed at dishing out the need for women to be given reasonable opportunities in business. Also, in the research work a lot will be dealt with on women in business though at small scale and it will be more narrowed down to the incubation centre that is situated in Birnin-Kebbi, Kebbi state at the Northern part of Nigeria. ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents Pages Title page - - - - - - - - - - i Declaration - - - - - - - - - - ii Dedication - - - - - - - - - - iii Certification - - - - - - - - - - iv Acknowledgement - - - - - - - - v-vi Table of contents - - - - - - - - - vii-viii CHAPTER ONE 1.1 Introduction - - - - - - - - - 1-2 1.2 Statement of Research Problem - - - - - - 3 1.3 Objectives of the Study - - - - - - - 3 1.4 Research Questions - - - - - - - - 4 1.5 Research Assumptions - - - - - - - 4 1.6 Significanc...