Oil Wealth; Meat in Norway, Poison in Nigeria: An Analysis of Human Capital as a Transmission Channel of Resource Curse
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The study examined the resource curse hypothesis on Nigeria, an oil rich but poor country and Norway, an oil rich and rich country. Human capital was the transmission channel explored in this study. The VAR was used to test annual data from 1970-2007. The result showed that oil w…
Planning and Financing Continuing and Non-Formal Education in Nigeria
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An international association advancing the multidisciplinary study of informing systems. Founded in 1998, the Informing Science Institute (ISI) is a global community of academics shaping the future of informing science.
Banking Sector Credit Development and Investment Productivity in Nigeria
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In Nigeria, commercial bank credit represent almost 90 percent of the financial system assets and about two-thirds of the total credit is allocated to the private sector. Financing of investments through the credit market system portends that investments are associated with a lev…
ILO and the International Labour Standards Setting: A Case of Nigeria Labour Acts
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This study examines how International Labour Organisation set-up a labour conventions and the role Nigeria government play in using these conventions to create National Labour Acts. The idea was critically investigated to measure the effect of such labour standards in Nigeria tha…
Assessment of the Opportunities and Threats of Maggaia-Lamido River Basin Communities in Sokoto, Nigeria
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This paper investigates the environmental challenges associated with the management and utilization of Maggaia-Lamido River Basin, Sokoto State, Nigeria. It also identified the spatial distribution of communities whose means of livelihood depends heavily on the river basin under…
Globalization and Its Impact on the Performance of the Nigerian Economy
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This paper investigates the impact of globalization on the performance of the Nigerian economy ‘between’ 1962-2009 through the application of simple Annual Average Growth Rate (AAGR) technique. The comparative analysis of growth of key sectors of the Nigerian economy (agriculture…
Non-State Violence, State Responses, and Implications for Human Rights and Security in the Niger Delta
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Bayelsa State -the heartland of the Ijaw ethnic group -is arguably the most important of the core states of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria in terms of the oil industry; and where incidences of both state and non-state violence were occurring regularly at the time of research.T…
Theft and Vandalism Control Measures on Building Sites in Lagos, Nigeria
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Problems of theft and vandalism is paramount issues related to building sites.The incidence of theft and vandalism sometimes depend on the nature of construction work and these vary among housing developments, roads and highways construction, dam structures, airport, and stadia c…
The structure of food demand in urban city of Nigeria: An application of a Linearized Almost Ideal Demand System (LA/AIDS)
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Household-level micro data were fitted on Linearized Almost Ideal Demand System (LA/AIDS) model to estimate the structure of starchy, animal protein, plant protein and fatty foods demand in Uyo Metropolis of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Panel data used in this study came from four m…
Monetary Exchange Rate Model as a Long-run Phenomenon: Evidence from Nigeria
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How well does the monetary exchange rate model explain exchange rate behaviour in Nigeria? Using the Johansen -Juselius (1990) and Johansen (1991) cointegration technique, this paper examines the long-run validity of the monetary exchange rate model in Nigeria for the flexible ex…
Empirical analysis of income inequalities and welfare among farmers in South Eastern Nigeria
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The study analysed income inequalities and welfare of farmers in South Eastern Nigeria, using Abia State where the occupation of majority is farming. Specifically, the study accessed the income inequalities of the farmers; determine the factors that influence welfare among the fa…
Promoting accountability in public sector management in today’s democratic nigeria
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Lack of accountability in the management of the public sector in Nigeria has remained a critical issue especially since 1999 when democratic rule was reestablished in the country after a long period of military rule. Due to poor culture of accountability, corruption has become en…
Causal relations between foreign direct investment in agriculture and agricultural output in Nigeria
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An inflation shock based scenario analysis of causal relations between foreign direct investment (FDI) in agriculture and agricultural output in Nigeria was conducted using data that spanned between 1960 and 2008. Augmented Dickey-Fuller test, Johansen co integration procedure, e…
Commanding good and prohibiting evil in contemporary Islam: cases from Britain, Nigeria, and Southeast Asia
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Democratic consolidation, fiscal responsibility and national development: An appraisal of the fourth republic
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The return of civil rule to Nigeria in 1999 brought a lot of hope for speedy national development in the country. This was because, unlike under the country’s prolonged military rule, democratization was expected to usher in openness, accountability and, more importantly, fiscal…
The relationship between energy consumption and national income of Nigeria
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the causal relationship between energy consumption and National income of Nigeria. The importance of identifying the direction of causality emanates from its relevance in national policy-making issues regarding energy conservation. There ar…
Effects of Corruption on Health Care Processes and Outcomes in Nigeria
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Corruption remains the most pervasive social problem in Nigeria. In this paper corruption is viewed as the root cause of non-improvement in the health status of Nigerians produced by comparative failures of huge public health expenditures to achieve the objective of reducing epid…
Social Values and the Yahooboys’ Subculture in Nigeria: Towards A Paradigm Shift for National Value Re-Orientation
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Society creates perimeters within which its members are expected to operate and employ sanction to stimulate, reinforce and dissuade certain behaviours. Social values generally define what society considers appropriate, right, noble or worthy behaviour. They drive the goals indiv…
Social Values and Prostitution in Awka South Local Government Area, Anambra State, Nigeria
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In every society, there are certain cultural values and value systems that guide every aspect of human behaviour. In Nigeria, our value system is in the process of decaying. This may be attributed to alien values of colonialism, imperialism and neo-colonialism. Prostitution which…
Understanding Corruption in Nigeria: The Social Exchange Perspective
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There are several challenges that confront one who wants to interrogate corruption in Nigeria. One of such challenges is to ascertain the theoretical perspective that is suitable to explain the ubiquitous nature of the phenomenon and hence proffer a remedy. The paper argues that…
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