This article examines how Industrial cash crops (ICs) undermine food security in developing countries through land grab, causing depeasantization and disappearing crop diversity. By using three previous research on Ghana, Ethiopia and Indonesia the complexities involving land dispossession, cash crop monoculture, dependency on the market for food, and livelihood crises are brought into focus. The analyses show reasonable linkage between cash crops production and food insecurity. Subsistence f...
Typically, political parties aid the political discourse in civilized societies and help foster national unity. It does this through fielding popular candidates for elective positions, especially candidates with the ideology that binds the political party not minding the ethnic and religious affiliation of the candidates. Despite the differences in ideas of various political parties in a country, the single unifying factor is that they all strive for the entrenchment of democratic ideals and ...
ABSTRACT The research work examined education and social mobility among the residents in Surulere Local Government Area, Lagos. Four Research questions and four Research hypotheses guided the study. To achieve this, a non-experimental research design of cross sectional survey method was adopted. The simple random sampling technique was used to select a sample of 200 residents from the age of 30 and above. The descriptive statistics of frequency counts and percentage were used to analyze the d...
ABSTRACT. The primary objective of this study is to measure the impact of ICT on human resource functions and organisational efficiency in Nigeria with a critical assessment of the service sector which is key to the economy. The research imbibed the use of primary and secondary data for the study and employed frequency distribution, simple percentage and Chi-square method for data analysis. The result of the analysis revealed a significant influence of ICT on human resource functions, or...
ABSTRACT This research work aims at examining the distribution systems of Dangote Flour Mills Plc.-Kano office. From the channels it employs to strategies in logistics and to evaluate how effective they are in achieving set down goals and objectives. This project will help to show the effect of inefficient distribution system to both distributors and producers of a product. To the distributors the problem maybe in form of high purchases and scarcity of the commodity while for the producer i...
ABSTRACT This study tries to look on the impact of credit in Small and medium scale enterprise in Nigeria. Evidence from Nigeria small and medium scale enterprise have been faced with poor funding with developing nations like ours are considered. This however distort the outstanding functions of SME, as the engine and Pivot for the economic growth and national development. No wonder Nigeria has continue to experience high level of emergence of new enterprises that would only exist for two...
This Article dwells on the Impact of Interest Rate on the Growth of Financial Institutions in Nigeria. Interest rate which is the opportunity cost for capital has been theorized by many authorities in the sphere of Economics. The research work carried out by the researcher used the OLS econometric method to analyze data obtained from CBN statistical bulletin. The result of the findings showed that interest rate has an inverse relationship with the growth of financial institutions in Nigeria...
ABSTRACT The major thrust of this study is to examine the impact of leadership in the performance of an organization. The success or failure of an organization (whether formal or informal, public or private) could be attributed to the leadership style adopted by the leader. A leader is saddled with the responsibility of setting the pace, giving direction, and piloting the affairs of any organization. In this research, the National Petroleum Corporation is to be used as case study. The impac...
Abstract The study focused on the effect of energy consumption and environmental degradation on economic growth in Nigeria. The empirical analysis that was carried out to achieve the objectives mentioned above were diagnostic tests such as unit root, co-integration, Error Correction Model (ECM) and ordinary least square (OLS) which aimed at examing empirically the effect of energy consumption and environmental degradation on economic growth in Nigeria covering the period from 1981 to 2016. Th...
Abstract: The whole concept of organization orderliness is discipline. This involves tacking rightful and wrongful doing in the Company; as such disciplinary action is taking against the wrongful staff. Also discipline and disciplinary action is the most vital aspect in any organization. In order to ensure the success of the management staff should be discipline so that to maintain continuity and also keep the organization going. Furthermore, the disciplinary procedures of the organization in...
THE EXTERNAL AUDITOR AND THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF PUBLIC SECTOR IN NIGERIA A Research Project Submitted By OKELEKE, CHIDINMA EZINWA Matric No_; RUN10-11/2987 To The Department of Financial Studies, College Of Management Sciences, Redeemer’s University, Km 46, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Redemption City, Mowe, Ogun State, Nigeria In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Bachelors of Science (B.Sc.) Honours in Accounting July, 2014. DECLARATION I, Okele...
Abstract Total Quality Management (TQM) has been practised in diverse industries from manufacturing to services. But its important in banking sector has attracted only few researchers. By providing the best service quality in Banks higher organizational performance will be expected. So customer satisfaction plays a major role to survive in the intense competition. The present research attempts to close the gap of relationship between TQM and customer satisfaction. So the objective is to find ...
ABSTRACT For most graduates of tertiary institutions in Nigeria, Government is still the most attractive employer of labour. However, economic reforms over the last years have seen the civil service cut in size and the majority of graduates remain unemployed which poses a critical problem to the country both economically and socially. In an impact to address this problem, the Nigerian Government in 2007, through the National Universities Commission (NUC) introduced a policy to encourage...
Increasing unemployment in most of the developing countries has become main hindrance behind decreasing livelihood standards and poverty. Worldwide, within the framework of potential efforts and strategies to boost employment and job creation for young people, literature shows that entrepreneurship is increasingly accepted as an important means and a valuable additional strategy to create jobs and improve livelihoods and economic independence of young people. With an unemployment rate of 20% ...
The concept of integrating social aims with profit-making is an emerging trend in the world today, especially in the wake of the 2007-2009 financial crisis which shone the spotlight on the problems of pure profit maximisation. Social enterprise is at the very core of this new movement to integrate social aims with profits, taking root in an increasing number of circles. The Botswana situation is marked by social enterprise being almost non-existent as a concept in the general consciousness. I...