ABSTRACT This research work, the developmental impact of rural banking in Nigeria, a case study of United Bank of Africa (UBA) PLC Agbani Road Branch, Enugu was carried out to measure to what extent the rural commercial banks have been able to involve the inhabitant of the rural areas in economic activities and how successful the bank are measuring up with their major aim of existence. Sequel to this, the researcher employed a population size of 25 staffs of United Bank of African PLC, Ag...
ABSTRACT Nigeria has a long history of religious conflicts, some of the most virulent being those of the ‘Maitatsine’ (1980s) and ‘Boko Haram’ (July 2009). The latter matched the former in intensity, organization, and spread. Given the international attention to global terrorism, there is the likelihood that fundamentalist group receive motivation, material, and ideological support or influence from a global jihadist movement. Unresolved national issues, including the weak economy, ...
ABSTRACT This study is aimed at finding out the determinants of savings in a deregulated economy. The Nigerian experience (1980-2010). The following hypothesis was formulated to guide the study. Ho: Interest rate has no significant impact on national savings in deregulated economy of Nigeria. Ho: inflation rate has no significant impact on national savings in deregulated economy of Nigeria. Ho: Exchange rate has no significant impact on national savings in deregulated economy of Nigeria. ...
INTRODUCTION A "fund of funds" (FOF) is an investment strategy of holding a portfolio of other investment funds rather than investing directly in stocks, bonds or other securities. This type of investing is often referred to as multi-manager investment. A fund of funds may be 'fettered', meaning that it invests only in funds managed by the same investment company, or 'unfettered', meaning that it can invest in external funds. There are different types of 'fund of funds', each investing in a d...
ABSTRACT The inter-relationship between Returns on investment, asset size and manpower development of food-based entrepreneurial industries in Abia state is the most common profitability ratio calculating pattern for determining economic impact of manufacturing or productive industries to the national economy. Though there may exist other several ways of determining this, but the most frequently used method is to divide net profit of the industries or companies under review by total assets t...
ABSTRACT The research work which is based on implications of budgetary control to industrialisation in Nigeria economic growth between 2012 and 1980 was embarked upon by the researcher to evaluate the position of the Nigerian economy from the perspective of industries with respect to budgeting and budgeting control. The researcher having known the term “Budgetary control” as a budgeting process cannot be accurately and comprehensively treated without the concept of “Budgeting” broade...
ABSTRACT External borrowing is a source through which many countries source revenue for development and economic growth of their countries. But this revenue can only help solve the problems of gross under – development when judiciously utilized. The burden of Nigeria’s external debt is more than the country can bear and the state of economic growth in the country is hampered due to debt crisis. The debt problem facing Nigeria is concerned on how to stop incurring more debts and device ...
INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study The foreign exchange market intervention phenomenon is obviously not a recent development, quite a number of governments across the globe have intervened in foreign exchange markets. The essence has mostly been to try to dampen volatility and to slow or reverse currency movements. This is usually borne out of concern that excessive short-term volatility and longer-term swings in exchange rates that "overshoot" values justified by fundamental condit...
INTRODUCTION Foreign exchange is the means of payment for international transaction. It is made up of convertible currencies that are generally accepted for the settlement of international trade and other external obligation. Just like every other commodity, a market is established which works more like any other market having a supply curve, a demand curve and an equilibrium price and quantity. There are also conditions which are held constant (creteris paribus). When these conditions change...
Abstract Nigeria is the largest oil exporting country in Africa and has a rapidly growing economy. The country follows a resource based growth strategy driven by the production and exporting of oil. With the volatility of global oil prices and of-ten volatile growth of Nigeria’s economy, this research is designed to examine the effect of Nigeria’s oil dependency on economic growth. This research at-tempts to answer the question of if the volatility of global oil prices is directly linked ...
A student research submitted in my 3rd year. Talks about my personal observation on land disputes.
Introduction In 1999, one of the worst post-colonial dictatorship regime in Africa comes to a end. Sani Abacha’s military ruling in Nigeria is overthrown and a transitional regime led by Olusegun Obasanjo is put into place. The country, touted in the 70’s as one of the potential success stories of Africa following the discovery of huge oil reserves and the building of decent infrastructure in cities such as Lagos and Port Harcourt, is in ruins. Part of the challenge, second only to the ...
ABSTRACT Despite various efforts of the successive Nigerian governments, virtually all indices of human development especially those of health and education are embarrassingly low. Their effort seem abortive. It is in the light of the above that this topic is very timely “An empirical analysis of the Impact of Human Capital Development on Economic Growth of Nigeria from 1980 to 2011. The main objective of this study is to examine the nature of the relationship that exists between human ca...
ABSTRACT The impact of entrepreneurial development in any developing economy can never be over emphasized as result of the its exponential developmental capacity through small and medium scale businesses that are springing up in every nook and cranny of the country almost on daily basis. It is as a result of this that the subject matter “ entrepreneurial development “ would be treated from the perspective of small and medium scale enterprises in the country. The vibrancy noticed in ...
ABSTRACT The challenges of measuring marketing strategy in relation to productivity has been inadequately address by previous researches and marketing text in Nigeria. Hence this study examines the effect of marketing strategy of First Bank. Out of the total population of first bank, Kaduna main branch with a staff strength of 135 persons were selected as the sample size. The survey method constitute the research design. Questionnaire design by the researcher in five likert scale consti...