ABSTRACT Treasury Single Account (TSA) came as a quick fix to regulating the level of accountability and transparency in the financial resources of the government of the country. Treasury Single Account (TSA) is a unified structure of government bank accounts enabling consolidation and optimal utilization of government cash resources. Through this bank account or set of linked bank accounts, the government transacts all its receipts and payments and gets a consolidated view of its cash positi...
The linkage between the elections and democracy is clear, far, no other method for selecting the leadership of a democratically ruled society has been proved or crown to be superior but it remain a fact that there is no political system that is conflict free. Even the advanced democracies political participation, citizenship rights, the role of global governance and the media. Western democracy and the American also have fundamental flaws. (Onu and Momoh, 2003: 11) In Nigeria, after a lon...
ABSTRACT Several years of misrule and mismanagement had weakened the economic management processes and institutions in Nigeria. Obviously there was no transparency and Accountability in Government (public sector). The sector became notorious for endemic corruption. The result was/is the inability of the government to delivered services to the Nigeria public. Widespread economic and financial crime like the advanced free fraud (419), money laundering, diversion of public fund to private uses, ...
Age grade system is known to play a significant role in the development of the communities in Ohafia right from its origin. The study examines the relationship between age grade projects and improvements in several socio- economic indicators as literacy level, life expectancy at birth, employment generation and income. The study draws on survey data from a sample of 293 respondents in ten communities in Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State. Descriptive and inferential statistics were us...
ABSTRACT E-payment system is increasingly becoming a daring means of payments in today’s business world. This is due to its efficiency, convenience and timeliness. It is a payment system that is continuously being embraced and adopted in the financial system of both developed and developing countries with a view to simplify and ease payments in business transactions. This study was carried out to look into the adoption and use of electronic payment systems in Ghana by business owners with e...
Africa has witnessed a number of conflicts. It is unfortunate that these conflicts have followed a particular kind of trend. This article seeks to uncover this trends with the view of analysing and forecasting approaches in which this conflicts can be resolved.
The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of performance incentives on employee efficiency in Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) in Dutsin-Ma Local Government Area (LGA) of Katsina State, Northwest-Nigeria. The population of the study comprised the sixty (60) employees of all the DMBs in Dutsin-Ma LGA of Katsina State, Nigeria (vis-à-vis First Bank Nigeria Ltd., United Bank for Africa PLC and Unity Bank PLC), of which a sample of 52 respondents was drawn using the proportional stratum all...
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My generation in Nigeria is a failure having been seen playing a key role in the under development of the Nation
The reasons behind the stunted growth and development of Benue state
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External shock can be seen as the vulnerability of an economy to fluctuations of a primary commodity price in the international market and foreign aid flows. This is usually possible for an economy with a high index of openness, and largely dependent on such commodity as sources of foreign exchange earnings and government revenue. One of such economies is Nigeria. Its shocks have emanated from oil price (Adamu, 2015), non-oil primary commodities, aid flows and trading partners at different pe...
For some time now, marketing companies have begun to explore the benefits of Behavioural Economics in enhancing the impact of their research and application. Behavioural Economics brings to the forefront the benefits of exposing the needs of consumers with precision and allows firms to deplore their strategies accordingly. In the same vein, public policy can now use these techniques to design policies that meet the exact needs of the citizenry. This presentation is the summary of the report o...
This study investigated the impact of fiscal and monetary policy on Nigerian economic growth from 1981 to 2015, with the interest in exploring which of fiscal or monetary policy has been effective in propelling economic growth in Nigeria and how GDP growth responds to the monetary and fiscal policy shock. The positive impact of these policy tools on economic performance will help the country achieve sustained growth and while reducing economic instability. Time series data were collected from...
The EITI is a standard for countries with oil, gas and minerals, it requires all companies extracting oil, gas and minerals to publish what they pay in taxes and royalties and the government also publish what it receives, including other key information about the sector (EITI, 2016). These mineral dependent economies generate at least 8 % of GDP and 40 % of export earnings from the mineral (Auty, 1993). The lack of accountability and efficient management of these resources has led to politica...