INTRODUCTION Today’s business environment is very dynamic and undergoes rapid changes as result of technologies information, increased awareness and demands from customers business organization, especially the banking industry of the 21st century operates in a complete and competitive environment characterized by these changing conditions and highly unpredictable economic climate. Information and communication technology ICT is at the centre of the global change curve. Loudon and Loudon (...
ABSTRACT Stress has been well known to have negative effects on the lives of individuals including their health, social interactions and work. This study looked into the effect stress has on the secretary’s job performance. The study defined stress to be ‘the body’s reaction to any change that requires an adjustment or response’. Purposive Sampling technique was used to sample secretaries from various department within the Ministries compound of New Juaben Municipality of the Easte...
ABSTRACTIncome generating activities are the sources of revenues for financial institutions. The study evaluated income generating activities of rural and commercial banks. Income generating activity was defined as ‘all operation that produce income or recover cost by providing goods or services to the general public’. Convenience sampling technique was used to sample a rural bank, South Akim Rural Bank, and a commercial bank, GCB, both in the Koforidua municipality as case study.Questi...
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study The administration of urban transportation in Nigeria follows the structure of government administration, that is, the three-tier form (Oni et al, 2006). This system manifested in form of serious expectation gap between citizen minimum expectation and the actual road construction delivery. In 1998, Nigeria needed N300bn to fix dilapidated roads and N54bn subsequently every year for maintenance and rehabilitation (National Pol...
ABSTRACT This research will discuss the concept of Entrepreneurial Marketing as an enabler of small business development and growth with special focus on the Nigerian movie and music industry. On the surface entrepreneurial marketing can be understood as “marketing with an entrepreneurial mindset”. By a combination of the definition of marketing by the American Marketing Association (AMA) and two conceptualizations of entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial m...
ABSTRACTGrowing old is not a new phenomenon, it has been existing for long. In olden days, old people are properly taken care by both their people and the government but today such has changed enormously. The aged are no longer valued or seen as being important. The society sees or perceive the old as been inferior. However, the way and manner that the society view or look at them most especially our youths, calls for concern. The youths in Alayi community in Bende Local Government Area of Ab...
ABSTRACT This research work is focused on the gender perception of sexually transmitted disease (STDs): using Awkunanaw community of Enugu South Local Government Area as area of study. This study is a humble attempt towards improving and understanding the perception of male and female towards sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The population of the study was about sixteen thousand three hundred and sixty-six (16366). Using ‘’Taro Yamane’s formula to determine the sample size, the siz...
ABSTRACT Marital infidelity is one of the factors militating against marriage and family which are two institutions that work towards the population and growth of the society. This research study is undertaken to make a little contribution towards creating awareness of the ills of marital infidelity in Idemili North L.G.A.; and to search for the most likely causes and solutions to the problem. The research adopted the systematic sampling approach for the study with a sampling size of 530 resp...
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) have been generally acknowledged as the bedrock of the industrial development of any country. Apart from the numerous goods and services, they provide a veritable means of large scale employment as they are usually labour intensive. (Yerima et al 2007). In developing countries, Nigeria have since the 1970‟s shown increased interest in the financing and promoting small and medium scale enterprises from three main reasons. ...
Abstract The business environment has become very competitive in the 21st century due to the growth in technology, infrastructure and access to information around the globe. This has made the environment very complex and consumer preferences keep changing because of the low switching cost in the market. Due to this increasing demand of consumers in the market, management of business organizations have to increase their resources with attention focused more on attracting and retaining its cust...
ABSTRACT This research was carried out to find the impact of compute on record management in an office with the reference to thirty secretaries working in Federal Polytechnic, Offa. Research questions guiding the study were as follow: (1) what impact does the computer has on record keeping in terms of reliability? (2) What impact does the computer has on record keeping in terms speed? (3) What impact does the computer has on record keeping In terms of retrievals? (4) What impact does computer...
The development of political parties in Nigeria dates back to the days of the struggle for political independence in 1920’s. In the pre-independence and the early post-independence periods, political parties in Nigeria were not ideologically based. Rather, they were regionally based and woven around individual politicians who they saw as their mentors (Aleyomi, 2013:283). In first republic, however parties were registered based on the exigencies of the time. This was the scenario until 1998...
ABSTRACT This study is an econometric method of research that analyzed the causes, effects and remedies of poverty and unemployment in Nigeria. It covered a period of 20 years 1991-2010 hence a time series analysis descriptive statistics and regression model was used to estimate the models and it was made use of secondary data which was fitted to the regression equation by the method of Ordinary Least Square (OLS).the major discovery here is that unemployment rate, the level of education, the...
ABSTRACT This research work that analysis on the impact of public opinion on public policy in Nigeria from 2010-2012 while narrowing it down to the economic policy of deregulation or fuel subsidy removal of 2012. Broadly divided into five chapters, the work breakdown how governmental decisions are being influenced by the opinions of the people in the democracy of Nigeria. History had it that before the discovery of oil, agriculture gave Nigeria about 70% of her income until now oil has earned...
ABSTRACT The study examined the role of Human Rights institutions in the country in addressing the problem of child abuse. The objective of this study is causes, types and effects of child abuse on the child, the family and the nation. The work is meant to draw closer attention on this increasing scourge and access measures of addressing to preserve the fundamental human rights of the child as entrenched under the Nigeria Child Right Act. In the study, the researcher defined ...