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ETHICAL ISSUES IN DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT AMONG Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) In Nigeria

Maintaining diversity and ethics practices is important to most small businesses who want to gain the loyalty of employees and trust of consumers. According to Joshua Joseph of the Ethics Resource Center, ethics training is becoming an increasingly popular trend in business, helping to align staff efforts with the organization's broader vision. Nigeria is often regarded as one of the most populous industrially developing nations in the world and richly endowed with abundant human and natural...

Analysis of Business Opportunities in Photography and Videography business in Nigeria

Photography began historically, as an art of the Person: of identity, of civil status, of what we might call, in all senses of the term, the body’s formality. It was not on the exalted heights of autonomous Art that photographic portraiture made its lasting place, but in a profane industry which furnished the cozier spaces of the bourgeois home (Adeeko 2012).With the changing trends and people’s love for preserving memories in the best possible way, photography has a big market, not just ...

DISPARITY BETWEEN THEORETICALLY OPTIMAL DIVERSIFICATION AND ACTUAL PRACTICE

Portfolio diversification is the practice of spreading one’s money among many different investments. It is a common sense concept that has many parallels in popular language and Culture (for example “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”). Its theoretical foundations were introduced in the normative work of Harry Markowitz (1952, 1959), and later confirmed by the work of William Sharpe (1964). Despite documented benefits of diversification, many investors do not diversify their stock...

The Role of Nigerian Government in Promoting the Manufacturing Sector

Nigeria is the largest economy in Africa; in 2013 its population was in excess of 170 million, with GDP of over US$500 billion (World Bank 2014). The continent’s biggest oil exporter is also home to large natural gas reserves. The economy has recorded considerable acceleration in growth; real GDP grew by 6.3 per cent, 7.6 per cent, and 7.4 per cent in 2009, 2010, and 2011 respectively. Despite this, poverty is persistently high, and the structure of the economy is that of a typically under...

THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN MARKETING OF CONSUMER PRODUCTS IN KANO STATE, A CASE STUDY OF FAST FOOD INDUSTRY

This study was carried out on the role of social media in marketing of consumer products in Kano state, a case study of fast food industry. It was premised on the proliferating notion of online retail businesses in Nigeria particularly through the use of many social media like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google Stores, LinkedIn, etc. despite the nefarious atrocities of internet fraudsters. Two objectives were sought; to determine the perception of the consumers toward online fast food shoppin...

Understanding Family Budget and its justifications

Budgeting is no longer an action limited to governments, corporations and authorities, but rather extends to include families as social entities with multiple socio-economic goals.  Budgeting brings considerable benefits to the family, whether on daily basis, short term or long term benefits, where the family plans for both the present and future.  As such, families in all societies have attached a considerable importance to drawing up monthly and annual budgeting in an optimum manner servi...

CBN CODE OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF LISTED BANKS IN NIGERIA

This research examines the CBN code of corporate governance on financial performance of Listed Banks in Nigeria. The study employed the non-surveyed research design, to quantify the level of compliance with code, compliance index, correlation matrix and simple regression method of data analysis was used to access the effect of compliance with CBN code on financial performance of banks in Nigeria. It was discovered that Compliance with the CCG by Nigeria banks has greatly improved the quality ...

The Attitude of Mothers Towards Immunization: Case study of Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State

ABSTRACT The study was conducted to investigate Immunization Attitude of Mothers in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State. The cross sectional design survey was used for the study. One hundred and thirty mothers were drawn using multi-sampling procedure involving three stages. The instrument for data collection was self-structured questionnaire to investigate the attitude of mothers. The findings revealed The overall attitude of mothers towards immunization of their children is po...

Evaluation of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on Private Businesses from 1986 – 2017: A Trend Analysis

Gombe 2018 Abstract Most countries strive to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) because of its acknowledged advantages as a tool of economic development. Africa – and Nigeria in particular – joined the rest of the world in seeking FDI as evidenced by the formation of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), which has the attraction of foreign investment to Africa as a major component.The main objective of this study is to establish quantitative relationships among the ...

SUKUK: AN ALTERNATIVE SOURCE OF FUNDS FOR GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA

Government in Nigeria be it federal state or local are always faced with similar problem of funding. Islamic financial instruments have been regarded as an attractive alternative to traditional financial instruments. The funding requirement by the government are available but not necessarily healthy and cheap as they are mostly being characterized with high interest rates, unimaginable charges or even stringent repayment plans. Also Islamic financial instrument such as Sukuk generated a lot...

Advantage of imitation and innovation for economic development and sustainability

 Annotation: There are a few who invent great ideas that renew the past and move the future. Imitation takes place in all area of life, from educational sphere to Business, IT Technology Companies, Car Manufacturing companies, Building and construction companies, furniture’s and decorating firms, Engineering, law, medicine, government institutions, press publishing companies, TV, etc. The road to development and sustainable growth lies in the power and art of imitation.  We can see these ...

WORLD WAR 1 AND 2 SHIFTS IN MILITARY STRATEGIES

1.1     INTRODUCTION The purpose of military strategy is to win wars; the scholarship over the last thirty years has shown that the period from 1914 through 1918 introduced the biggest changes in war fighting strategies, tactics and technologies in all human history. With a few significant exceptions, almost everything about how large-scale combat operations are conducted today traces its origins to World War I. If an infantry battalion commander of August 1914 were to jump ahead a sc...

NIGERIAS ROLE IN LIBERIA AND SIERRA-LEONE CRISIS

1.1              BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The Liberian conflict was the first to reveal the scale of governance deficits in African states. West Africa was home to many authoritarian regimes, which were shored up by superpower allies during the Cold War and which could no longer count on that support in a new dispensation (Kuna, 2013). Thus, it was possible to reveal the structural instability in many of these states where governance was characterized by patronage politics and...

NIGERIA PEACE KEEPING CONTRIBUTION

1.1              BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The Liberian conflict was the first to reveal the scale of governance deficits in African states. West Africa was home to many authoritarian regimes, which were shored up by superpower allies during the Cold War and which could no longer count on that support in a new dispensation (Kuna, 2013). Thus, it was possible to reveal the structural instability in many of these states where governance was characterized by patronage politics and...

FAILURE OF INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES AS THE BANE OF NIGERIAS NATIONAL SECURUTY

TABLE OF CONTENT CHAPTER ONE 1.1    INTRODUCTION 1.2    NATIONAL SECURITY, TERRORISM AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE 1.3    THE REALITY OF NATIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGE IN NIGERIA CHAPTER TWO 2.1 LITERATURE REVIEW 2.2 SECURITY OPERATIONS 2.3RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTELLIGENCE SUPPORT AND SECURITY OPERATIONS 2.4 MANAGEMENT EVALUATION AND CONSTRAINTS OF THE INTELLIGENCE IN SUPPORT OF SECURITY OPERATIONS IN NIGERIA CHAPTER THREE 3.1 NATIONAL SECURITY IN NIGERIA 3.2 NATIONAL SECURITY CHAL...


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