ABSTRACT This study takes a cursory look at the reproductive rights of women with particular emphasis on the role of family planning in the protection of these rights, and also the basic need for education on family planning methods and contraceptives for women. The role the law has been playing in protecting this very important right of women, the legal regime available and its enforcement. The author will also look at the prohibition of Abortion in Nigeria which has not encouraged the deve...
ABSTRACT Leadership will necessarily force an examination into the unresolved subject of the definition of “leaders’’ and leaderships in the olden days, various acknowledged leaders had attempted a comprehensive definition of the concepts but such definitions became inadequate because of factions such as time, space and perhaps least of all fate or luck. The elusiveness of the definition becomes more obviou...
ABSTRACT There is no pretence that the agency model offers several ways of resolving the problems associated with the separation of ownership and control in public limited liability companies. In a bid to avert some of the recent financial scandals and corporate abuses in Nigerian companies, and similarly, promote good governance, the Securities and Exchange Commission, have proposed a recently reviewed Code of Governance with a far reaching implications to all companies who fails to comply ...
This is a project work that measures the effect of investment assets on shareholders' wealth maximization. It made use of both primary and secondary data to ensure a standardized and quality study. NESTLE NIGERIA PLC and ABACUS SECURITIES were used as case studies of this project work. The project was supervised by Professor Kehinde James of Accounting and Finance department at the Lagos State University, Nigeria.
This paper examined the dynamic interaction among business cycle, macroeconomic variables and economic growth in Nigeria between 1986 and 2014. The study employed the vector auto regression technique (VAR) to investigate the business cycle effect on economic growth and its interaction with government expenditure and money supply in Nigeria during the study period. Quarterly time series data between 1986 and 2014 was used for the study. Data on the real gross domestic product (RGDP), nominal g...
Poor governance in Sub-Saharan Africa has been a major hindrance to economic growth of the region compared to other regions in the rest of the world. To examine the influence of governance on economic growth of Sub-Saharan Africa, panel data on growth rate of Gross Domestic Product, governance indicators and other indicators of the three selected Sub-Saharan Africa countries namely Nigeria, South- Africa and Ghana for the period of 1996-2015 were sourced from World Development Indicators of t...
The study investigates the contribution of local government expenditure on the performance of Nigeria economy from 1993 to 2010 using empirical evidence from expenditure profile of the Nigeria local government. The study examines the basic features of local government spending: investment (capital) expenditure and consumption (recurrent) expenditure as they relate to the GDP over time (1993 – 2004). The findings of this study among others include: that local government expenditure contribut...
This dissertation uses the event study methodology to examine the short-run cumulative abnormal returns to UK based mergers and acquisitions between the years 2008-2014. By examining this short-run cumulative abnormal returns, the response of the UK stock market to the announcement of mergers/acquisitions post-financial crisis was deduced. To measure the stock market response accurately, a random sample of 128 companies engaging in consolidation transactions between 2008-2014 is broken down i...
ABSTRACT In recent times, many banks appear to have abandoned their essential intermediation role of mobilizing savings and inculcating banking habit at the householdand micro enterprise levels. The apathy of banks towards small saver particularly at the grass-root level has not only compounded the problems. of law domestic savings and high bank lending rates in the country. It has also reduced access to relatively cheap and stable funds that could provide a reliable source of credit to ...
This article provided us with a simple, but very powerful framework to understanding how a sustainable economic growth can be actualized. Within the confines of this rational work, it was shown that agro based economy, on the long run, will not lead to a sustained economic growth while industry based economy will foster sustained economic growth. This is because industry based economy is being supported by the process of ‘capital accumulation’. Though this article showed evidence that in...
ABSTRACT This study investigated relationship between talent management and labour turnover a study of Nigeria banking sector. Employees in Nigeria banking system are highly pressured to improve their present performance while little or no room is given for development of talent to improve future performance. This pressure is what brings about job insecurity, absenteeism, burnout and resignation hence the purpose of the study. The study used survey research design. A total of 320 respondents...
16EFFECT OF REWARD ON ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT: A CASE STUDY OF LAGOS STATE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, NIGERIAABSTRACTThis study examined the effect of reward on organizational commitment with reference to Lagos State Internal Revenue Service, Nigeria. The case study is chosen because tax revenue is an instrument of economic development of most countries including Nigeria, that can put them on the road to sustainable development. The population of the study is 135 purposively selected staff o...
ABSTRACT Nigeria’s economy is dominated by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Agriculture, Manufacturing, Commerce, Industry and Services. Despite the active involvements by SMEs in Nigeria economy. High mortality rate among SMEs is a matter of major concern. The main purpose of the study is to determine impact of leadership styles on succession planning in SMEs in Lagos state, Nigeria. The study specifically determined impact of (i) directive, (ii) transformational, (iii) participative...
Abstract It is commonly understood that engaged employees are motivated to contribute to the success of the organization. Literature also reveals that work engagement which comes from job satisfaction is derived from effective career management practices, which results in lower employee turnover and productivity of the organization. Survey research method was adopted. Simple random sampling technique was employed to select respondents from the stratums of managers and non-managerial staff fro...
Abstract The aim of this paper is to describe the historical origin and development of cost and management accounting. This study has successfully linked the modern management accounting systems to the past to ensure a better understanding. It was gathered that the existence of cost accounting as one of the oldest managerial tools dates back to the ancient times. The formal beginning of cost and management accounting is ascribed to the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century which was...