ABSTRACT
 
 The fear is now rife that increasing wave of frauds in the financial institution in recent years, if not arrested might pose certain threat to the stability and survival of individual financial institution and the performance of the industry as  a whole.
 For one thing, frauds result in huge financial losses to financial institution and capital base, as well as loss of confidence in financial institution, for another, the incidence of fraud and forgeries could in the extreme case lead to the closure of some affected institution. Many of these distressed bank in Nigeria today had suffered a great deal from frauds insider credit abuse. The extent of fraud in banks rather abata has continued to escalate. 
 It is therefore, necessary that attention is paid to this nefarious phenomenon as fraudsters become more sophisticated and doing in the approach. 
 To this end, the project attempt to determine the detection and prevention of financial frauds in Nigeria banking system analysis of computer usage in bank.
 The project study will be of benefit to banks and other related financial institution that have standing detection and prevention polices as it provides recommendation on how to improve on these polices. 
 Chapter one of this research deal with background and overview of financial fraud. 
 The second chapter review the previous write ups on the subject matter and also a significant highlight on the causes nature and direction action in such respect. 
 Chapter three and four show the methodology, presentation and analysis of data respectively.
 Finally, chapter five embrace the summary of finding, conclusion and recommendation.         
  
 TABLE OF CONTENT 
 
 Title page 
 Approval page 
 Dedication 
 Acknowledgment
 Abstract 
 Table of content 
 
 CHAPTER ONE 
 Introduction 
 1.1Statement of problem 
 1.2Rationale study 
 1.3Significance of the study 
 1.4Background of the study 
 1.5Definition of terms 
 
 CHAPTER ONE 
 2.1Review of related literature 
 2.2Fraud and fraudulence practice in banking service 
 2.3Legal frame work and fraudulent practice 
 2.4Reported case of financial frauds 
 2.5Causes of financial frauds 
 2.6Form and source of financial frauds 
 2.7Effect/ consequences of financial frauds 
 2.8Prevention and banks management control devices 
 2.9Government participation 
 
 CHAPTER THREE 
 3.1Research methodology 
 3.2Research design                         
 3.3Method of data collection 
 3.4Location of data 
 3.5Limitation of the study 
 
 
 CHAPTER FOUR 
 4.1Presentation of data 
 4.2Data presentation 
 
 CHAPTER FIVE 
 5.1Summary of finding 
 5.2Conclusion 
 5.3Recommendation 
 Bibliography