ABSTRACT The proliferation of poverty and global inequality between and within the countries has resulted in an emerging consensus among the actors in the field of international development on the importance of social policies in the process of development. Different policies and structural programmes has, over the years, been instituted as mechanisms for tackling poverty and empowering individuals and one of such recent social policy measures employed by the MDGs is the Conditional Cash ...
This is a Research Project done to achieve a Bachelor's degree from Oxford Brookes University. The case study is on Dangote Cement with comparative analysis of Lafarge Cement Plc. Analysis was done using Financial ratios and Business models like PEST and SWOT. The project objective was achieved using these tools, with references extracted from secondary sources.
ABSTRACT The study was embarked upon to review and examine taxation as a means of generating revenue that will serve as a way forward from declining oil revenue in Nigeria. The study’s objectives are; to look into taxation as a way forward from declining oil revenue, to review the impact of taxation on the economic grow and development, to run through the Nigeria tax system regarding its administration, enforcement, collection and remittance of taxes and consider ways of making the Nigeria...
ABSTRACTThe study evaluated the effects of oil price fluctuations on economic growth in Nigeria. The industrial production index was used as a proxy for gross domestic product that served as a function of oil price, exchange rate and interest rate that are the explanatory variable. The research made used of secondary time series data, The data on industrial production index, exchange rate and interest rate were obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin while that of oil p...
Calamities and other forms of hardships or difficulties happen among people, societies or nations times after times. Sometimes, the calamities, hardships or difficulties happen naturally while some other times they are caused or invited by people. People experience hard times like wars, communal, ethnic or religious clashes, famine, plague, high cost of life etc. These hard times normally cause untold hardships to people ranging from loss of lives, lost of properties, displacement and other f...
The basic minimal structures required for a country to lay claims to the practice of federalism include a political system in which there is power sharing under a written constitution with a government consisting of at least two orders: a central or federal government and the governments of the constituent units. Each order of government receives an allocation of financial resources tailored to their specific requirements. Nigeria has been a federal state since 1954, yet even this basic requi...
THE CAUSES AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF HERDSMEN-FARMERS CONFLICT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA By Afeez Tijani Osumah Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Phone: + (234) 07065020634, E-mail: [email protected] Abstract The paper attempt to ascertain the rationale on mass exodus of herdsmen southward part of the country and to determine the causes of the clashes between the herdsmen-...
THE IMPACTS, EFFECTS AND GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO HERDSMEN-FARMERS CONFLICT ON NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN NIGERIA By Afeez Tijani Osumah Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria. ABSRACT The study critically examines the impacts and effects of conflicts between the herdsmen-farmers in vulnerable communities and the exact response of government to nip the crisis in bud. However, the conflict has a negative reflection o...
A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF ETHNIC PLURALISM AND POWER POLITICS IN NIGERIA By Afeez Tijani Osumah Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Phone: + (234) 07065020634, E-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT Political power is a key issue in Nigeria politics; this is because of diverse ethnic groups that composed of Nigeria as a sovereign state. These ethnic diversities in N...
This study examined the influence of perceived organizational support among workers in KPMH Nigeria, Lagos. It also examined the influence of role ambiguity on work life balance among workers in KPMG Nigeria, Lagos. A descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The subject of the study comprised staff of Tax, Audit and Business support departments of KPMG Lagos State. A total of 85 (44 males 51.8% and 41 females 48.2%) participants filled out the questionnaires completely. The groun...
THE EFFECTS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ON FIRM PERFORMANCE. (A STUDY OF SELECTED COMPANIES IN NIGERIAN STOCK EXCHANGE) BY ONYENWEH IFEANYI EMMANUEL 2012154085 DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTANCY, FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, CHUKWUEMEKA ODUMEGWU OJUKWU UNIVERSITY, IGBARIAM CAMPUS AUGUST, 2016. TITLE PAGE THE EFFECTS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ON FIRM PERFORMANCE. (A STUDY OF SELECTED COMPANIES IN NIGERIAN STOCK EXCHANGE) BY ONYENWEH IFEANYI EMMANUEL 2012154085 BEING A PROJECT PRESENTED TO THE ...
An examination of strategic planning/management
ABSTRACT Global terrorism have in recent times assumed a very dangerous dimension. The various ways and manner in which terrorists attempt to achieve their goals have altered the operation of the contemporary international relations. This constitutes a striking problem to contemporary international relations. Against this background therefore, this work is primarily aimed at pin-pointing the major causes of global terrorism and its implications in the contemporary global politics. In...
ABSTRACT Unemployment is a phenomenon that occurs when a person who is actively searching for employment is unable to find work. Unemployment is often used as a measure of the health of the economy. The most frequently measure of unemployment is the unemployment rate, which is the number of unemployed people divided by the number of people in the labor force. The level of unemployment varies with economics conditions and other circumstances. This is mostly seen in under developed nations like...