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…
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…
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