ABSTRACT The increasing role of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the development of communities and the attention they attract globally have made them indispensable in the current political, social and economic dispensation in Ghana and the world at large. However, the question of the impact of NGOs‟ projects or interventions on rural communities has been a major issue of conc...
ABSTRACT In recent times, the performance record of the employees of Nigerian public social welfare agencies has been a catalogue of disappointment and failure. This situation has, therefore, called for a drastic intervention through public perception to draw the attention of the employees to their responsibilities of providing services to the people in the most satisfactory manner and move the country forward in the attainment of the millennium development goals. This is the major premis...
ABSTRACT Motor vehicle insurance was developed to take care of possible loss that may arise from the utilization of vehicle for some purposes. This study examines motor insurance and its impact in ensuring road safety, taking Nigeria as a case study. Primary data source was adopted. Method of data collection was through the distribution of questionnaires to targeted respondents from selected insurance broking firms in Lagos, Nigeria. A sample size of fifty was deployed through multi-stage sa...
Abstract: Waiting lines are common phenomenon in our daily life especially in the organization that provides services for profit making. The paper shows that to ensure quality service delivery a good and unique queuing system is necessary in the filling stations which ensure a good flow of customers at the service points. The main objective of this study is to determine whether the application of queuing model shortens the waiting times of customers in Total Filling Station, Keffi. The stud...
Abstract: The Automated Teller Machine(ATM) is expected to provide quality services to the customers at the time that the serviceis seriously needed but this is often not achieved in practice because the proportion of customers needing the services on a daily basis continues to increase and the available capacity to meet the challenges is grossly inadequate.The main objective of this study is to determine the effectiveness of ATM usage on customers’ satisfaction.Data was collected using a...
Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of loanable funds market on economic growth in Nigeria. Data from 2001 – 2015 were used. This was obtained from CBN bulletin and Bureau of Statistics. The analysis was done using multiple regressions. The growth in line with a priori expectation. The study also affirms a positive relationship between interest rate and economic growth. The coefficient of determination R2 is 95.7% while the Durbin Watson statistic of 2.25 shows minimal level of ...
This paper looks at how African countries have been dribbled by the two ideological blocs-capitalist and socialist– all in search for ideal path to development. Their dissatisfaction with these two contending and often conflicting politico-economic prescriptions (path of capitalism and path of socialism) for development led scholars, intellectuals, leaders and policy-makers, and analysts in the Third world, which Africa constitutes a part, to come up with the idea of ‘delinking’ from ...
ABSTRACT The study focuses on the Effect of Management information system and Financial performance of selected companies in river state. The role of Management information system (MIS) in business environment has evolved over time to become an integral part of its business operations in Nigeria. The use of information systems (ISs) has increased in the last 10 years not only by firms, but also by individuals and even govern...
ABSTRACT The need for effective working capital management within Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) remain pivotal to profitability of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Lagos State. Most SMEs do not care about their working capital position, while only little have regard for their working capital position and most do not even have standard credit policy. In consonance with these, this study examined the effect of working capital management on the profitability of Small and Medium Enter...
This study investigated influence of personality, emotional intelligence and marital satisfaction on domestic violence among couples. It adopted expost facto design. The independent variables are Personality, emotional intelligence and marital satisfaction while dependent variable is domestic violence. The study was conducted in Ibadan North local government. Purposive sampling technique was used to sample 259 participants consisting of 112 males and 138 females who responded to questionnaire...
Abstract Supply chain risk management as turned out to be a critical function for organization around the globe as a consequence or change in technology, economic, environment of organizations. Most companies or organizations view supply chain risk as a disruption of the flow of products or services that meet their requirements and consequently reduce their performance. Supply chain disruption as become so frequent and severity has been on the increase and which as a great impact on various...
ABSTRACT Nigeria in its quest to end many of its conflict situations and bring about some form of peace has often neglected to put to effective use more than half of its population, the women, there by wasting valuable resources. Signatory to a lot of international agreements in support of promoting gender equality in all areas including peace and formal peace processes, Nigeria has not been able to fully translate promises to practice due to already existing gender inequalities deep in its i...
Abstract: With advancement in Nigeria-South Africa relations, unequal investment became more apparent. South African businesses abound in Nigeria with Shoprite, MTN, Stambic IBTC Bank, Multichoice (DSTV), etcetera featuring prominently. Nigerian companies in South Africa are not dominant in any sector or have any noticeable spread in the economy. This study investigated the nature of Nigeria-South Africa unequal investment relations and factors that hinder Nigeria’s efforts to balance them....
Nigeria’s foreign policy under General Ibrahim Babangida was one in which Nigeria played active role in the crises in West African sub-region especially Liberia and Sierra-Leone. Nigeria’s involvement in the internal affairs of other countries got rekindled in 1988. First was to settle the border conflict between Burkina Faso and Mali. In this instance, Nigeria brokered a peace agreement acceptable to both sides but which was frustrated by France using Code d’ivore (Mohammed, 20...
Abstract Subsequent to the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 26 December 1991, the cold war era were terminated. This ushered the world into the post-cold war era. The post-cold cold war era saw the period of rapid advancement in science and technology. New security challenges began to emerge. Despite the United Nations changing strategy to meet up with the new peace and security challenges, achieving international peace and security is still not child’s play since after the cold war. This...