Policy Framework for Community and State Policing in Combating Rising Security Challenges in Nigeria
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Viability of decentralizing policing in Nigeria had been on the front burner of security discourse since Nigeria returned to democratic governance in 1999.Valid points had been put forward by both those in support and those in opposition.The Community Policing Department of the N…
John Locke’s A Letter Concerning Toleration: Lessons for the Nigerian Religious Environment
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Religious convictions are a source of bitter confrontations between especially the Muslims and Christians ofNigeria.The problem is so endemic that there are conspicuous spillovers into the political and social spheres of everyday living in the country.This reality threatens the a…
OIL, POLITICS AND CONFLICTS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF NIGERIA AND SOUTH SUDAN
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Over the years, Sub-Saharan Africa has become synonymous with conflicts. And of all the known causes of conflicts in Africa, the gift of abundant resources appears to be the most prominent and lethal. Nigeria and South Sudan are some of the many resourcerich countries in Sub-Saha…
An Assessment of the Organizational Size Influence on Debt to Equity Ratio among Insurance Firms in Nigeria Stock Market
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The purpose of this paper is to discover the assessment of the organization's size influence on debt to equity ratio among quoted insurance firms in Nigeria.The main objective of the study was to assessment of the organization's size influence on debt to equity ratio among quoted…
Foreign aid, human capital and economic growth nexus: Evidence from Nigeria
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This study investigates the link between aid and human capital in promoting economic growth of Nigeria.The study used two models; the first model was used to test the validity of the medicine model in Nigeria; while the extended model was used to investigate the effect of aid and…
Domestic Revenue Mobilization and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Nigeria
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Foreign and domestic debts have raised questions about fiscal sustainability and implications for sustainable development. One of the major problems in the agricultural sector in developing economies is inadequate capital, despite its centrality to growth and development. This st…
THE CURRENT ACCOUNT AND OIL PRICE FLUCTUATIONS NEXUS IN NIGERIA
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Considering Nigeria as an oil dependent country, fluctuations in oil prices as a result of policy competition between OPEC and oil shale producing countries (such as the United States and Canada) in recent years has posed an impediment on the current account balances of Nigeria.T…
Does Exchange Rate Devaluation Affect Agricultural Output? Evidence from Nigeria
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The purpose of this research was to examine the effect of exchange rate devaluation on agricultural output in Nigeria. This investigation used the available time series data of 30 years (1986-2016) from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Statistical Bulletin and the National Burea…
Identity conflicts as challenge to political stability in West Africa
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This paper concerns itself with establishing the nexus between identity conflict and its impacts on socio-economic and political relations in the West African context. The effort is motivated by the observable incidences of incessant violent conflicts and wars, all fought on the…
Effect of Small and Medium Enterprises on Employment Generation in Nigeria
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Employing the regression model, this study examines the effect of small and medium enterprises on employment generation in Nigeria.The findings revealed that small and medium enterprise development and per capita income are statistically significant in explaining employment gener…
Asymmetric cointegration and causality between natural gas consumption and economic growth in Nigeria
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This paper investigates asymmetric cointegration, asymmetric adjustment, and causality between natural gas consumption and economic growth in Nigeria using the momentum threshold autoregressive (M-TAR) model and the Granger-causality test in a momentum threshold error correction…
Socioeconomic factors influencing performance of community-based women organizations (CBWOs) in rural development projects in Imo and Rivers state
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Community based organizations serve as the apex organizations by which communities can embark on agricultural development projects, small scale industries, vocational and trade, skills, rural transportation and other rural economic activities. However, certain factors hinder thei…
Financial sector and manufacturing sector performance: evidence from Nigeria
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Nigerian economy depends on oil as the major source of revenue, failure to diversify the revenue base has raised questions about its sustainability and implication on the economy. This study uses market capitalization, broad money stock, credit to private sector, prime interest r…
The Influence of Oil Price Volatility on Selected Macroeconomic Variables in Nigeria
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The paper analyses the influence of oil price volatility on Exchange Rate Variability, External Reserves, Government Expenditure and real Gross Domestic Product using the methodology of Vector Auto-Regressive (VAR) to carry out regression analysis, impulse response function and f…
Tax Revenue and Economic Development in Nigeria: A Disaggregated Analysis
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The objective of this study is to ascertain the relationship between tax revenue and economic development in Nigeria during the period 1994 -2016.Data were obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria, Office of the Federal Inland Revenue Service and Annual Abstract of statistics of…
The Press and Nigeria’s Foreign Policy: A Content Analysis of Selected Issues (1985 – 1995)
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Objectives of this study include but not limited to ascertaining the extent to which the press contributed to the formulation and implementation of some foreign policies during the period under study, scrutinizing the nature of publications on the foreign policies by Nigerian pre…
Sovereign treasury solvency and financial performance management in Nigeria
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The paper assessed sovereign treasury solvency and financial performance management in Nigeria from 1999 through 2016. The aim of this study is to determine the degree of solvency in Nigeria’s sovereign treasury. Ex-post ‘facto’ empirical analysis is the research method employed.…
Disaster Management in a Volatile Ecowas Region: Nigeria Perspective
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This study examined disaster management in Nigeria with a view to ascertaining how policies and government agencies can be used to achieve effective disaster management in the West African Region.The objectives of the study were; to determine how staff training can be used to imp…
Oil Price Volatility and Business Cycles in Nigeria
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Abstract The effect of oil price volatility on the business cycle (measured as fluctuations in real GDP) in Nigeria is investigated, while controlling for effects of other variables such as inflation, exchange rate, money supply, trade openness and foreign direct investment. Vola…
Prebendalism and Budget Authorization in the Nigerian Legislature
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In recent times, the process by which the parliament approves budget estimate from the chief executive has being hijacked by self-serving elements in the National Assembly at the detriment of the masses.Reports abound on how the Nigerian parliament made themselves the highest pai…
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