This study focuses on the implications of Credit to private Sector on the economic growth of Nigeria. Reforms have been introduced and implemented in Nigeria over the last three decades. The impact of these reforms on the economic growth have not been well felt by the citizens. The study is to determine the relationship between Credit to private Sector and economic growth of Nigeria. Regression model was used to present the estimates evaluated with T-test, F-test, DW-test and standard error...
All over the world, no country has been adjusted to be totally free from any iota of corruption. Corruption in the Federal Public Service has triggers government response by setting up an impressive array of institution designed to curtail the malaise in the public sector. However, these efforts have continued to fail. This thesis has taken a deep assessment of performance of independent corrupt practices and other related offences commission in combating corruption in Nigeria federal public ...
Nigeria post independent era witnessed various kinds of manifestation and widespread corruption as a result of oil boom and the transfer of power from the colonial master to indigenous educated ruling elites. This made the government to set up various machines / institutions to control corruption and other financial crimes in the country. One among such institutions is the economic and financial crimes commission (EFCC) but has the commission carried out its roles effectively on the control o...
Customer Relationship Management refers to a management approach that seeks to create, develop, and enhance relationships with carefully targeted customers in order to increase retention of profitable customers. Galbreath and Rogers(1999) states that Customer Relationship Management streamlines activities a business unit performs in order to identify,qualify,acquire,develop and retain ever more loyal and profitable customers by delivering the right product or service, to the right customer, t...
Gender transcends sex, It goes beyond the mere demarcation between male and female. it is in real terms the stereotypes a particular society attaches or describes a person. There is therefore the need for gender parity to eliminate all forms of gender discrimination and ensure that both the male and female sexes reach their fullest potentials, and are allowed to get to the pinnacle of their careers without being stereotyped based on sex. Stereotypes can be found in the school, family, religio...
ABSTRACT This study takes a cursory look at the reproductive rights of women with particular emphasis on the role of family planning in the protection of these rights, and also the basic need for education on family planning methods and contraceptives for women. The role the law has been playing in protecting this very important right of women, the legal regime available and its enforcement. The author will also look at the prohibition of Abortion in Nigeria which has not encouraged the deve...
ABSTRACT Leadership will necessarily force an examination into the unresolved subject of the definition of “leaders’’ and leaderships in the olden days, various acknowledged leaders had attempted a comprehensive definition of the concepts but such definitions became inadequate because of factions such as time, space and perhaps least of all fate or luck. The elusiveness of the definition becomes more obviou...
ABSTRACT There is no pretence that the agency model offers several ways of resolving the problems associated with the separation of ownership and control in public limited liability companies. In a bid to avert some of the recent financial scandals and corporate abuses in Nigerian companies, and similarly, promote good governance, the Securities and Exchange Commission, have proposed a recently reviewed Code of Governance with a far reaching implications to all companies who fails to comply ...
This is a project work that measures the effect of investment assets on shareholders' wealth maximization. It made use of both primary and secondary data to ensure a standardized and quality study. NESTLE NIGERIA PLC and ABACUS SECURITIES were used as case studies of this project work. The project was supervised by Professor Kehinde James of Accounting and Finance department at the Lagos State University, Nigeria.
This paper examined the dynamic interaction among business cycle, macroeconomic variables and economic growth in Nigeria between 1986 and 2014. The study employed the vector auto regression technique (VAR) to investigate the business cycle effect on economic growth and its interaction with government expenditure and money supply in Nigeria during the study period. Quarterly time series data between 1986 and 2014 was used for the study. Data on the real gross domestic product (RGDP), nominal g...
Poor governance in Sub-Saharan Africa has been a major hindrance to economic growth of the region compared to other regions in the rest of the world. To examine the influence of governance on economic growth of Sub-Saharan Africa, panel data on growth rate of Gross Domestic Product, governance indicators and other indicators of the three selected Sub-Saharan Africa countries namely Nigeria, South- Africa and Ghana for the period of 1996-2015 were sourced from World Development Indicators of t...
The study investigates the contribution of local government expenditure on the performance of Nigeria economy from 1993 to 2010 using empirical evidence from expenditure profile of the Nigeria local government. The study examines the basic features of local government spending: investment (capital) expenditure and consumption (recurrent) expenditure as they relate to the GDP over time (1993 – 2004). The findings of this study among others include: that local government expenditure contribut...
This dissertation uses the event study methodology to examine the short-run cumulative abnormal returns to UK based mergers and acquisitions between the years 2008-2014. By examining this short-run cumulative abnormal returns, the response of the UK stock market to the announcement of mergers/acquisitions post-financial crisis was deduced. To measure the stock market response accurately, a random sample of 128 companies engaging in consolidation transactions between 2008-2014 is broken down i...
ABSTRACT In recent times, many banks appear to have abandoned their essential intermediation role of mobilizing savings and inculcating banking habit at the householdand micro enterprise levels. The apathy of banks towards small saver particularly at the grass-root level has not only compounded the problems. of law domestic savings and high bank lending rates in the country. It has also reduced access to relatively cheap and stable funds that could provide a reliable source of credit to ...
This article provided us with a simple, but very powerful framework to understanding how a sustainable economic growth can be actualized. Within the confines of this rational work, it was shown that agro based economy, on the long run, will not lead to a sustained economic growth while industry based economy will foster sustained economic growth. This is because industry based economy is being supported by the process of ‘capital accumulation’. Though this article showed evidence that in...