banking sector plays an important role in financing the investment projects‚ successive governments in Nigeria have carried out reforms and institutional innovations in the banking sector. The overall intention of these reforms has been to ensure financial stability so as to influence the growth of the economy and also enhance banks to play a critical role of financial intermediation in Nigeria. However‚ despite the fact that Nigerian banks have undergone series of restructuring/reforms aimed at
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Contemporary issues in Nigeria public administration. Title: Meritocratic abuse in the Nigeria public sector BY EKANEM VIVIEN ONYINYE Matric no: 2004/Degree/DL0766 Department of public administration and local government University of Nigeria Nsuka. A seminar paper presented in the partial fulfillment of the
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Introduction Nigeria is Africa’s leading producer of oil and the seventh largest producer of crude oil in the world‚ and equally endowed with other numerous natural resources. But rather than utilizing its resources for maximum development‚ the country is unfortunately bedevilled with how to efficiently and effectively distribute oil revenues in an equitable manner. The revenue allocation phenomenon in Nigeria is basically the issue of distribution of national (resources) revenue‚ mobilized by
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of revenue generated by the government for the provision of infrastructural facilities. One major source of generating this revenue is taxation. According to Azubike (2009)‚ tax is a major source of government revenue all over the world‚ including Nigeria. Government use tax proceeds to render their traditional functions such as the provision public goods‚ maintenance of law and order‚ defense against external and internal aggression‚ regulation of trade and business to ensure social and economic justice
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equitable revenue allocation in Nigeria. It is an issue which has been politicised by successive administrations in Nigeria both Military and civilian regimes. Indeed‚ in virtually all federations in which the constitution shares power between the central and regional or state governments and‚ for each level to be “within a sphere co-ordinate and independent” (Wheare 1963:93) enough resources need be allocated to each tier to justify their existence. For many years‚ Nigeria has been searching for an equitable
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substantial source of protein to complement Nigerian carbohydrate meals. Sadly Nigerians inclination to go into business in the fields where thousands have already made their fortune has led to the ulter neglect of such lucrative area of snail farming in Nigeria or export at international market. Many people see snails here and there. Some people take it as meat. But quite a number don’t know how to go about rearing them. This is made worse because snails‚ which belong to the family of animal called MOLLUSCA
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Opportunities in the Industrial Cassava Market in Nigeria Henk Knipscheer‚ C. Ezedinma‚ P. Kormawa‚ G. Asumugha‚ K. Makinde‚ R. Okechukwu‚ and A. Dixon International Institute for Tropical Agriculture 2007 1 Contents Contents...........................................................................................................................................2 Acknowledgements.....................................................................................................
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someone who is 18 and above but to others it involves a greater part of the teenage years. You would agree with me that Nigerian Students in these various tertiary institutions make a great number of the Youth in Nigeria. That says at least that we value education to an extent in Nigeria. But in reality‚ not all students admitted into the tertiary are above the age of 18 years. Some are even as low as 14 year of age. It is this “youth” that are the most seen during elections because they are on the
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1:1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The essence of any society is its ability to replenish the members‚ which constitute it and thus ‚enhance the continued existence of that society. The ability of any human settlement to retain its characteristics as a social group relies heavily on the replacement of old members of society with new ones. However‚ the replacement of old member of society with new young ones
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GLOBALIZATION CULTURE AND ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION IN NIGERIA. By Dr Adedeji Daramola‚ Wole Alagbe‚ Bridgette Aduwo. e-mail: sadaramola2000@yahoo.com School of Architecture‚ Covenant University‚ Ota - Nigeria. Abstract: Globalization has exerted so much pressure on every aspect of the global economy. This pressure is fast affecting the economy of most underdeveloped and developing world. The precipitation of the World Trade Organization principles‚ which compelled participating nations
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