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The effect of quality culture on university performance
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Higher Education sector of any country plays a pivotal role in national development.If such a key sector is weak, there is every likelihood that research, development and innovation will be week.The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of quality culture on university…
Time series modeling of the interaction between deterministic and stochastic trends
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This study investigated a scenario where both the deterministic and stochastic trends coexist in a single realization.On exploring the monthly internally generated revenue of Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria from January, 2010 to December, 2014, we found that the deterministic trend wi…
A journey without maps—Understanding the costs of caring for dependent older people in Nigeria, China, Mexico and Peru
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PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: Populations in Latin America, Asia and sub-Saharan Africa are rapidly ageing. The extent to which traditional systems of family support and security can manage the care of increased numbers of older people with chronic health problems is unclear. Our aim was…
HIV prevalence and high-risk behaviour of young brothel and non-brothel based female sex workers in Nigeria
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BACKGROUND: Female sex workers (FSWs) have been identified as a core group in the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Young FSWs are particularly more vulnerable to HIV due to the combination of vulnerabilities associated with their youth and the…
Directors’ Compensation and Insurance Firms’ Performance in Nigeria
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Compensation is a complex and controversial subject. Researchers, academicians and consultants have devoted much time and efforts to understand the innumerable factors that underlie top management compensation. Of more importance to this study is how compensation imparts on firms…
Effects of Public External Debt and Private Investment on Agricultural Growth in Nigeria:1980-2016
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Agricultural Research & Technology: Open Access Journal is a dynamic journal for publishing research reports, short communications, Critical Reviews in Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, Agronomy, Forestry, Animal Science, Food Technology, etc. The goal of the open acces…
Politics of Conviviality? State–Civil Society Relations Within the Context of Counter-Terrorism in Nigeria
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Abstract There are emergent interests on the dynamics of counter-terrorism measures (CTMs) at global, regional and national levels, particularly with respect to how CTMs intersect with and shape state–civil society relations. Using a descriptive research design, this study examin…
Binomial Analysis of the Demand for Higher Education in Borno State of Nigeria
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Demand is a multidimensional and determined by many factors. Education is viewed as investment and key to development of any nation. This paper investigated the demand for private education in Nigeria with focus on Borno State. Both primary and secondary sources of data were util…
Reinsurance and Performance of the Ceding Companies: The Nigerian Insurance Industry Experience
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Abstract This paper examines the relationship between ceding office gross premium income, underwriting profit and financial stability. The study made use of primary and secondary data. The primary data were obtained from 246 respondents selected from those companies through the u…
Capital Flight and the Economic Growth: Evidence from Nigeria
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This research examined the impact of capital flight and its determinants on the Nigerian economy using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model to analyze data source from the period of 1981 to 2015. The variables included current account balance, capital flight, foreign d…
Assessment of tourists patronage of Obudu Mountain Resort, Cross River State, Nigeria
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Tourism in recent times has been expressed as a leisure and event-based activity. This study was carried out to examine tourists’ arrivals and patronage of the Obudu Mountain Resort in Cross River State, Nigeria. The data for the study were collected through questionnaire survey,…
The travail of service delivery and developmental failure in post-independence Nigeria
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Given the increase in public demands for socio-economic and developmental services, along several plans and resources committed to public services by Nigerian government, poor service delivery has continued to bedevilled development in post-independence Nigeria. Extant studies ha…
Consumer Perception of Mobile Advertising Values and their Attitude Towards Mobile Advertising in Anambra State, Nigeria
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The study examined if there was relationship between consumer attitude towards mobile advertising and their perception of the informativeness, entertainment, credibility and irritativeness of mobile ads.The questionnaire was used to gather the primary data from of 400 mobile phon…
Effect of Investor Sentiment on Future Returns in the Nigerian Stock Market
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Study investigated the effect of investor sentiment on future returns in the Nigerian stock market for a period covering first quarter of 2008 to fourth quarter of 2015.The OLS regression and granger causality techniques were employed for data analyses.The results showed that (1)…
Infrastructural Development as a Means of Attracting Foreign Direct Investment for Economic Development in Nigeria
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Foreign direct investment is a key ingredient of development that most nations of the world seek to attract to boost economic growth and development.This paper sought to examine the place of infrastructure in attracting foreign direct investment, which is considered an instrument…
The Nigerian child in war and peace, 1960 to 2010
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Peace as the absence of both direct and indirect violence in Nigeria has eluded the Nigerian child. From the perspective of direct violence, the Nigerian child has not been spared the horrors of wars that have dotted Nigeria’s geographical space since independence. From the persp…
The Political Economy of Criminal Justic System Reform in Nigeria 2000-2009
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The smooth running of the criminal justice system is very essential in the socio-economic development of every nation.It helps in curbing criminality and the maintenance of law and order in society.However, where the criminal justice system is dysfunctional, anarchy and lawlessne…
Effect of Government Agriculture Investment on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana
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This study examines the effect of government agriculture expenditure on economic growth of three Sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries of Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana from 1980 to 2013.The objective is to analyze the growth effect of three agriculture expenditure variables of Agr…
INFLUENCE OF PROPERTY CHARACTERISTICS ON EVENT CENTRES’ RETURNS IN AKURE, NIGERIA
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Purpose: The importance of event centres to the functionality of a city has given birth to the study of the physical and functional qualities of event spaces, and their suitability for the proposed functions that are supposed to take place in them. This study thus aims at examini…
PATHWAY TO POST-2015 NIGERIA’S DEVELOPMENT: SIDESTEPPING THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND THEIR MAJOR CREATORS
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This paper examined the centripetal and centrifugal forces surrounding the politics of MDGs and Nigeria’s post-2015 development trajectory. The paper interrogated the development trajectory of African countries within the context of core-periphery relations and concludes that the…
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