Pharmaceutical industry capacity utilization in Nigeria
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The performance of any enterprise is influenced by the environment in which it is located. The last two decades has witnessed the pre and post democratic governance in Nigeria as well as a number of government initiatives aimed at addressing some challenges facing the health deli…
User-Fees in Health Services: Assessing how it Impacts on Access, Utilization and Quality of Care in a Tertiary Health Facility in Delta State, Nigeria
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Objective: To assess how user-fees policy impacts on clienteles’ access to care, willingness to utilize health services and their satisfaction with the quality of healthcare, having to pay at the point of service in a tertiary health facility. Method: This was a cross-sectional d…
Media advocacy for sustainable water management in Africa: a study of Nigeria
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Strategic uses of news created through mass media (tv, radio and newspapers) can promote public debate and generate community support for changes in community norms and policies on water challenges in Africa.Against this backdrop, the programme content of randomly selected radio…
Internal Security Operations and Human Rights Abuses in Nigeria: Issues and Challenges
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The most outstanding challenge to the Nigerian state since the beginning of the twenty first century is probably the proliferation of internal conflicts. This is primarily because they impede the growth of democracy and threaten national security. In order to maintain peace and s…
Work-Life Balance Practices in Nigeria: A Comparison of Three Sectors
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The study investigates the concept of work-life balance (WLB) policies and practices in three sectors of the Nigerian Economy namely the Banking, Educational and Power Sector.The types of WLB initiatives available in the three sectors were explored and the barriers to implementat…
Oil price volatility and economic development: Stylized evidence in Nigeria
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The research presented in this study, investigates chiefly the causal relationship between oil prices and key macroeconomic variables in Nigeria in a multivariate framework using times series data from 1980 to 2010. To examine whether there is prediction between oil prices and ma…
Forecasting of Exchange Rate Volatility between Naira and US Dollar Using GARCH Models
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Exchange rates are important financial problem that is receiving attention globally.This study investigated the volatility modeling of daily Dollar/Naira exchange rate using GARCH, GJR-GARCH, TGRACH and TS-GARCH models by using daily data over the period June 2000 to July 2011.Th…
The Impact of Exchange Rate Fluctuation on the Nigerian Economic Growth: an Empirical Investigation
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This research study examined the impact of exchange rate on economic growth from 1986 to 2013.The main type of data used in this study is secondary; sourced from Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin of various issues.From 1986 being the year the monetary authority shifted…
Measuring the Responsiveness of Agricultural Supply to Macro-Economic Environmental Factors: Evidence from Nigeria
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Evaluating the responsiveness of agricultural supply to macro-economic environmental factors is an important step to implementing agricultural policies in Nigeria.This study investigated agricultural output responsiveness to the level of infrastructure, rate of Inflation, exchang…
Disposition of students to online counselling: The Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigerian experience
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An online guidance and counselling services was established at the Obafemi Awolowo University in December, 2010. This study was designed to examine the undergraduates’ disposition to the online counselling services after 24 months. It also investigated the prevalent disposition,…
Factors influencing consumers preference for local rice in Nigeria
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This study applied a multinomial logistic regression in examining factors driving consumer preference for locally produced rice in Nigeria. The data for the study were collected in Niger and Ekiti states in 2008 under the post harvest study programme of Africa Rice (EX-WARDA). Re…
Clientele democracy: Political party funding and candidate selection in Nigeria*
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The upsurge of democracy during the third and fourth waves democratic epochs has led to a “proliferation of alternative conceptual forms…involving democracy ‘with adjectives’” (Collier and Levitsky, 1997:430). Clientele democracy, though similar with neopatrimonial democracy, is…
Audience westernisation as a threat to the indigenization model of media broadcast in Nigeria
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Based on semi-structure interviews and secondary data, this paper examines the westernization of audiences - among other phenomena - as a serious challenge to the indigenization paradigm in Nigeria in particular and Africa as a whole. It pragmatically argues that this westernizat…
Trends in budgetary expenditure on the agricultural sector in Nigeria (1977-2004)
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The study estimated trend equations for budgetary expenditure on Nigeria agricultural sector between 1977 and 2004. Secondary data in the form of budgetary expenditure records were obtained from various publications of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Federal of Statistics (FOS)…
State-economy relations and survival of democratic governance in transiting societies: Lessons from South Korea
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Rational men support institutions that best guarantee the attainment of their socioeconomic aspirations. Of all known political rationalizations, democracy, it is that best prides such. However, in certain climes, there are inhibitive factors defiling the success of democracy, mu…
MACROECONOMIC VARIABLES AND STOCK PRICE VOLATILITY IN NIGERIA
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between stock price volatility and few macroeconomic variables such as inflation, exchange rate, GDP and interest rate. Annual time series data ranging from 1980 to 2011 was used for this study. The generalized autoregressi…
MONETARY POLICY TRANSMISSION MECHANISM IN NIGERIA: AN OVERVIEW
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The paper highlights monetary policy transmission mechanism in Nigeria focusing on empirical studies and happenings in the country that retarded the efficiency of the Central Bank of Nigeria over the years in the pursuant of effective transmission mechanism. The empirical reviews…
Fifty years after: Rethinking security/national security discourse and practice to reinvent its future
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Fifty years after independence, the discourse and practice of security/national security in Nigeria needs re-examination. Security is a contested terrain amongst nation at different stages of development. At the moment, the contest is over the referent-state or people. Have Niger…
Integration policies as structures of disintegration: the political economy of nationhood and resource control in Nigeria.
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In its exploration of the sub-theme, ‘Nigerian nation, Resource Control and National Integration’, this paper attempts to explain the fundamental reason why all the previous efforts towards national integration failed. The paper observes that the prevailing Nigerian nation is an…
Resolving Nigeria's ‘Boko Haram’ Insurgence: What Role for the Media?
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Nigeria has no doubt witnessed and is still witnessing several forms of conflicts in both the North and the Southern divides. One of such devastating insurgence that currently ravaged the peaceful and harmonious living in the country is the present conflicts in the North, involvi…
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