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Climate change, pastoral migration, resource governance and security: the Grazing Bill solution to farmer-herder conflict in Nigeria
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Violent conflict between native communities and migrant herdsmen is one of Nigeria’s most ubiquitous security challenges in the age of climate change. It accounts for an increasing number of human and material losses which is not only surpassed by the country’s ongoing counter-in…
Fiscal Deficit, Financing Options and Macroeconomic Stability in Nigeria: A Disaggregated Approach
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The study examines empirically the relationship between fiscal deficits and macroeconomic stability in Nigeria from 1970 to 2016.The data for the empirical analysis was sourced from secondary sources such as the CBN statistical bulletin.The study used Inflation Rate (INFL) and Ex…
‘True’ Federalism in a well-structured Nigeria: The Panacea to her Economic Development Challenges
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Nigeria is bedeviled with enormous economic and national developmental challenges.These challenges include but not limited to political instability, extreme poverty, high rate of unemployment, low and unstable economic growth, dearth of infrastructure and colossal depreciation of…
An Overview of Local Government Autonomy and its Functions in Nigeria
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Once any country adopts a federal system of government it is taken for granted that there is division of powers among the levels of government, with a written constitution specifying the division, and the coordinate relationships among the levels.This paper attempts to reflect on…
Empirical Assessment on Financial Regulations and Banking Sector Performance
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Abstract This study examines financial regulation and banking sector performance in Nigeria. Specifically, the study determines the impact of reforms on banking sector performance and also assesses the nexus between capital adequacy and banking sector performance. Time series dat…
Volatility and Co‑movement: an Analysis of Food Commodity Prices in Nigeria
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Abstract This study explains volatility as a measure and interaction of the possible movement in a particular economic variable. Prices change rapidly in adjustment to market circumstances. Food prices hike experienced overyears has resulted in widespread menace which led to incr…
An assessment of nexus between infrastructural development and Nigerian economic growth
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This study investigates the nexus between infrastructural development and Nigerian economic growth using data from 1981 to 2014. The data was tested for stationarity followed by co-integration, and Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) was employed for the analysis. From the resul…
Fela Anilkulapo-Kuti's 'Beast of No Nation'
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Following his release from prison in 1986, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti released the album, ‘Beast of No Nation’ to critical acclaim. The song came both as a scathing criticism of the Nigerian military regime at the time and in response to the event surrounding his detention and prison ex…
The Effect of International Business on SMEs Growth in Nigeria
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The research examined the effect of international business on SMEs growth in a competitive environment, particularly Nigeria.The secondary data were gathered from the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) annual report.This study adopted ordinary lea…
Board Diversity and Firm Performance in Nigeria
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The study examines the relationship between board diversity and firm performance in Nigeria. The study adopted the cross-sectional research design using data from all the banks quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange from 2010-2015. The multiple regression technique is the basis of…
Fiscal Synchronisation or Institutional Separation: An Examination of Tax-Spend Hypothesis in Nigeria
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This paper investigates the position of Nigeria within the various fiscal hypotheses (tax-spend, spend-tax, fiscal synchronization and fiscal neutrality hypotheses) using Granger Causality and Block Exogeneity Wald Test within the framework of Vector Error Correction (VEC) Model.…
The Economic Impacts of Chronic Illness on Households of Patients in Ile-Ife, South-Western Nigeria
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Introduction Chronic illnesses are slowly becoming more prevalent worldwide. The implications and ramifications of these illnesses vary and affect not only the patient but the entire household in many ways. This research focuses on the economic implications of this category of il…
Financial reforms and credit growth in Nigeria: empirical insights from ARDL and ECM techniques
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In the last 37 years, Nigeria has undergone several stages of financial reforms with different impacts on the economy. This paper analyses the impact of these financial reforms on credit growth in Nigeria using annual data from 1980 to 2016. The research work hinges on the theore…
Plea Bargaining and the Administration of Criminal Justice in Nigeria: A Moral Critique
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The idea of "justice" normatively reflects "justitia" in the Roman worldview: "fiat justitia, ruat caelum" (may there be justice though the heavens fall).That is, justice must prevail no matter whose ox is gored.In its corrective schema, justice is connected to the ideas of just…
The effects of interest rates on access to agro-credit by farmers in Kaduna State, Nigeria
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This study examined the effect of interest rates on access to agro-credit by farmers in Kaduna State, Nigeria. This study employed survey research methodology which covered the three agricultural zones in the study area. The data generated were analyzed using descriptive statisti…
A Business Ecosystem’s Model for Harnessing Nigeria’s Ocean Economy
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The reassessment of ocean economy contribution of nations has become a new strategy for frontier states adjacent to the coastal region for the improvement of their position in the efficiency frontier curve.The continuity of a coastal state to remain a leader in the production and…
Closing Indigenous Manpower Gap in Oil and Gas Industry in Niger Delta for Sustainable Peace through Local Content Act
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This paper examines how the indigenous manpower development objective in the Nigeria Local Content (LCA) Act can bring about sustainable industrial peace in the Nigerian petroleum sector and the Niger Delta.The paper discovered that NLCAct is driven by the vital role oil sector p…
Bad Governance and Insecurity in Nigeria
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This paper examined the link between bad governance and perpetuation of insecurity in Nigeria.Using theoretical arguments, the paper holds that, the current security challenges that bedeviled Nigeria are attributable to injustice, corruption and selfish governance by the leadersh…
Unemployment, Commercial Motorcycle and Crime in Nigeria
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Employment in Nigerian is pervasive and is further compound by the present economic recession in which many companies have downsized and increasing the number of unemployed.r millions of jobless and unskilled Nigerians.Driven by the hash economic climate many unemployed and unski…
Intra-Elite Conflict and Problems of Governance in Nigeria: Imperatives of Games Theory in African Politics
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In modern African politics, terrorism and failed state syndrome have became prevalent and a challenge to democratic values and virtues of good governance, posing great threat and stress to the survival of domestic political systems.This increasing politic stress is a product of c…
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