Emerging actors in employment relations: Evidence of multipartism between the Nigerian Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities
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The current trends in employment relations as they relate to decentralisation of production, outsourcing of workers to third parties, the emerging range of new employment arrangements such as agency work, contract or part-time work, casualisation and telecommuting are the result…
Domestic Investment and Economic Growth Nexus in Nigeria: A Post Recession View
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Modelling the Nigeria Crude Oil Prices Using ARIMA, Pre-intervention and Post-intervention Model
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The study applied Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Intervention in modelling crude oil prices in Nigeria spanning the period from January 1986 to June 2017. The time plot of the series showed an abrupt increase in the series and this called for intervention modelling. The…
Profit Efficiency and Poverty Status of Farmers in Selected Rice Growing Communities in Cross River State, Nigeria
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Aim: This study analyzed the profit efficiency and poverty status of rice farmers in selected rice growing communities in Cross River State, Nigeria. Methodology: The multistage random sampling was used to select rice farming households in the study area. Primary data were collec…
What constitutes the democratic quality of elections? Evidence from Nigeria
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Two sets of data are employed by this study - qualitative in form of face to face in-depth interview with electoral stakeholders in the country, report and media coverage of events as they unfold in the country by media houses and election observers both domestic and foreign. The…
Modelling the Nigeria Crude Oil Prices Using ARIMA, Pre-intervention and Post-intervention Model
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Crude oil prices and the balance of trade: Asymmetric evidence from selected OPEC member countries
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The contribution of this article is to assess whether the effects of crude oil price fluctuations on the trade balance are symmetric or asymmetric in the context of an individual oil-exporting country, specifically four OPEC member countries – Iran, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and Ven…
Effect of Social Capital on Poverty Alleviation among Fish Farming Households in Oyo State, Nigeria
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This study investigates the effect of social capital investment on poverty reduction among fish farming households of Oyo State, Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was adopted in the selection of the respondents. Primary data were collected using a structured questionnaire…
Ethnic politics as an eternal clog in the wheels of politics:
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The thrust of this paper is an examination into an essential and perhaps an overly underplayed character of Nigerian politics. Following a vast multi-cultural diversity crisscrossing Nigeria’s society, ethnic/divisional politics has saddled Nigeria's over 50 years of statehood, d…
Ethnic politics as an eternal clog in the wheels of politics: A Nigerian assessment
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Abstract The thrust of this paper is an examination into an essential and perhaps an overly underplayed character of Nigerian politics. Following a vast multi-cultural diversity crisscrossing Nigeria’s society, ethnic/divisional politics has saddled Nigeria's over 50 years of sta…
Local Government Administration and the Development of Oba Akoko, Akoko South West Local Government, Ondo State, Nigeria
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The recognition and importance of local government in the development process is prompted by the imperative to tackle local socio-economic problems and to manage grassroots development, especially through provision of basic infrastructure. The paper therefore, underscores the imp…
Are women financially excluded from formal financial services? Analysis of some selected local government areas in Lagos State, Nigeria
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The preoccupation of this study is to investigate whether women are financially excluded from formal financial services in Lagos State. Four local government areas (Ikeja, Ifako- Ijaiye, Somolu-Bariga and Agege) were selected for the empirical enquiry. Perceptions of women about…
Intra-Elite Factionalism and the Quest for Sustainable Political Platforms in Nigeria
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The People’s Democratic Party was the governing party for 16 years until it was defeated in the 2015 general elections. The dominance of the party over the Nigerian political landscape masked the deep internal schism that has bedevilled the party since its formation. This paper t…
Insurance Companies and the Efficiency of Financial Intermediation in Nigeria
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The study examined the relationship between insurance companies and financial intermediation in Nigeria.The insurance industry is a vital part of the entire financial system. Apart from commercial banks, insurance companies contribute significantly to financial intermediation of…
Human Capital Formation and Economic Growth in Nigeria
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This study investigates how the development of human capital is related to economic growth in Nigeria from 1980 to 2015. Data were sourced from the Central Bank of Nigeria and the National Bureau of Statistics. The study employed Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) to estimate the rela…
Insurance Companies and the Efficiency of Financial Intermediation in Nigeria
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The study examined the relationship between insurance companies and financial intermediation in Nigeria. The insurance industry is a vital part of the entire financial system. Apart from commercial banks, insurance companies contribute significantly to financial intermediation of…
EU Product Standards and Export Diversification in Nigeria and South Africa
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The issue of export diversification has been receiving attention among scholars and policymakers. However, African countries face critical challenges in improving domestic capacity to meet production and quality standards required in the foreign markets.Premised on this, this stu…
Beyond Asexualization: Narratives of Sexual Objectification of Persons with Albinism in Nigeria
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Often overemphasised, in most sexuality studies, is that persons with disability, especially women, face experiences of asexualization rather than sexualisation. Similarly overemphasised is the faulty monolithic assumption that economic deprivation is the causal factor in the obj…
Free Trade Zones: A Strategic Evaluation of Nigeria Success (Failure) Story
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This paper represents a strategic evaluation of the performance of free trade zones in Nigeria.The paper used Krugman (1991) and Bergsten (1991) analysis on free trade zone to lay the theoretical argument for and against free trade zone.The study also reviewed Nigeria's free trad…
Boko Haram and the Global War on Terror
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Abstract Although the Boko Haram crisis started like other riots before it and was initially treated as such, its escalation and metamorphosis from ordinary religious protest to insurgency has given an air of notoriety and fatality to it in Nigeria and across the borders of Camer…
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