The impact of flood on the socio-economic status of residents of Wadata and Gado-villa communities in the Makurdi metropolitan area of Benue State, Nigeria
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The study examined the effect of flood on the socio-economic status of residents of Wadata and Gado-villa communities in the Makurdi metropolitan area of Benue State, Nigeria.A sample of five hundred and two (502) displaced residents consisting of males and females camped at St.…
Challenges of Providing Security in Lagos State: The case of Corporate Private Security Organisations
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The existence and rapid growth of CPSOs have created new opportunities and challenges. To regulate the CPSOs effectively, the study therefore investigates the challenges of CPSOs in crime prevention in Lagos State. Data were obtained using a combination of a questionnaire, In-dep…
Analysis of economic capacity utilization in the Nigerian sugar industry (1970 - 2010)
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The study analyzed economic capacity utilization rates in the sugar industry for the period 1970 to 2010 in Nigeria. Secondary data obtained from sugar firms; Central Bank of Nigeria; National Bureau of Statistics and the Federal Ministry of Finance were used in the study. Stocha…
Impact of Agriculture and Industrialization on GDP in Nigeria: Evidence from VAR and SVAR Models
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Agriculture and industrialization has been generally accepted as the surest and most direct route to economic development of any country like Nigeria. Their potentials, if properly harnessed, has the capacity to grow a Nation income. In this paper, we investigated the impact of a…
Housing delivery system, need and demand
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This paper reviews the past and current housing delivery programmes in Nigeria and analysed the demand and supply issues. The paper examined factors responsible for high housing pricing trends, it state the constraints and challenges in accessing housing. The paper ascertains gui…
Macroeconomic Impact of Oil Price Levels and Volatility in Nigeria
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This study investigates the time-series relationship on the impact of oil price volatility on macroeconomic activity in Nigeria using exponential generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (EGARCH), impulse response function and lag-augmented VAR (LA-VAR) models.We…
Spatial integration and price communication in food grains markets in Ogun State of Nigeria
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Grains are important food items amongst many households because of their nutritional values. Quite often, there are distinct disparities between the wholesale and retail prices of these commodities. This study therefore investigated the degree of integration and price communicati…
Public expenditure and economic growth nexus: Further evidence from Nigeria
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This paper examines the relationship between public expenditure and economic growth in Nigeria during the period 1970-2009. A disaggregated public expenditure level was employed using the Gregory-Hansen structural breaks cointegration technique. The result confirms Wagner’s law i…
Workers government wage relations and the unresolved issue of income inequality and labor strikes in Nigeria: Suggestion for the way forward
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Generally speaking, employees in all kinds of work organizations (private or public) exchange work for rewards, which take many forms (that is, material and non-material rewards). However, one of the most important of such rewards and invariably the most obvious is the money paid…
Accounting for employment generation and expansion: A tool for insecurity in Nigeria
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An enduring outcome of observation processes is the enduring visibility of the need for the generation and expansion of employment. The current situations in Nigeria are underemployment, unemployment as well as insecurity. Among the broad causes of unemployment are absence of ind…
Insurance development and economic growth in Nigeria, 1986-2010
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This study analyzed both the long and short run relationship between insurance development and economic growth in Nigeria over the period 1986 to 2010. Using error correction model (ECM), the study finds that insurance development cointegrated with economic growth in Nigeria. Tha…
An assessment of Nigeria expenditure on the agricultural sector: Its relationship with agricultural output (1980 - 2011)
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A strong and an efficient agricultural sector would enable a country to feed its growing population, generate employment, earn foreign exchange and provide raw materials for industries. This study makes a modest contribution to the debates by empirically analyzing the relationshi…
Socio-demographic profile of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Idoma land, Benue state, North-central Nigeria: Implications for HIV/AIDS control
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The profile of PLWHA constitutes a subject of interest in HIV/AIDS control initiatives. This study investigated the socio-demographic attributes of PLWHA in Idoma land, Benue State [Nigeria], with a view to suggesting customized measures for HIV/AIDS control. A total of 133 PLWHA…
The Impact of Wage Differentials on Labour Turn Over in Nigeria
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This study investigates the impact of wage differentials on labour turn over in the public service between the state and federal employees.We employed the logit model in our analysis, using a sample of 840 employees, in accordance with our theoretical priors, the empirical result…
Icj Judgment On Bakassi Peninsula And Lake Chad: Litmus Test For Peace And Integration In Africa
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled against Nigeria on the disputed Bakassi (Backassey) Peninsula and parts of Lake Chad territory with Cameroun on 10 October 2002, and Nigerian government has complied to a large extent. Ordinarily, the case has been foreclosed from fu…
Patrimonial rule in Olusegun Obasanjos Nigeria
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Since the fall of the Berlin wall or the end of the cold war in 1980s, many African leaders appear to be championing the cause of democratic transition in their states whereas in the real sense of it they directly or indirectly engage in systems that are quite antithetical or in…
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Insurance Companies Profitability in Nigeria.
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The study examines the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on insurance companies' profitability. It identifies the imperatives for adoption of ICT to promoting efficient and efficient service delivery in the insurance industry as a strategy for attainment of…
Investment Climate and the Performances of Industrial Sector in Nigeria
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Industrial growth in all countries is inextricably linked to and connected to the business environment where it is situated.This study examined the linkage between the business environment otherwise call investment climate and the performances of industrial sector in Nigeria.The…
Globalization and economic security in Nigeria: A reflection of the Nigerian manufacturing sector performance (1981 -2010)
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This study empirically investigated the impact of globalization on economic security, with a reflection of the performance of the Nigerian manufacturing sector, using co-integration and error correction mechanism (ECM) techniques with annual time series covering the period betwee…
Amazons of War and Peace: Local Women Organisations and Communal Conflicts in South-eastern Nigeria
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This study investigates the role of women civil society organizations in communal conflicts in South-eastern Nigeria. Until recently the literature on the nexus of gender, civil society, peace and conflict research in Nigeria suggests that civil society studies have been largely…
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