change in the economic environment in which it operates‚ hence the need to review the regulating instruments from time to time. Nigeria is governed by a federal system hence its fiscal operations also adhere to the same principle‚ a fact which has serious implications on how the tax system is managed. The country’s tax system is lopsided‚ and dominated by oil revenue. It is also characterized by unnecessarily complex‚ distortionary and largely inequitable taxation laws that have limited application
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American Academy of Political and Social ScienceReligion‚ Legitimacy‚ and Conflict in NigeriaAuthor(s): Henry BienenSource: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science‚ Vol. 483‚ Religion andthe State: The Struggle for Legitimacy and Power (Jan.‚ 1986)‚ pp. 50-60Published by: Sage Publications‚ Inc. in association with the American Academy of Political and SocialScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1045539 .Accessed: 02/10/2013 11:21Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates
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Summary‚ Conclusion and Recommendations 1. Summary 2. Conclusion 3. Recommendations 4. Suggestion for further study References THE ROLE OF INTERNAL AUDIT IN PREVENTION OF FRAUD IN NIGERIAN BANKS (A CASE STUDY OF EQUITORIAL TRUST BANK LAGOS) BY ODEIGAH FELICIA ABSTRACT This study investigated the role on internal audit in the prevention of fraud in banks taken Equitorial Trust Bank (ETB) as case study. It specially examined how the bank organized its
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CAN NIGERIA ’S NASCENT DEMOCRACY SURVIVE? BY Emmanuel 0. Ojo (Ph.D) Department of Political Science University of Ilorin‚ Nigeria P. F. Adebayo (Ph.D) Lebanese Emigration Research Center‚ Notre Dame University‚ Lebanon ABSTRACT By May 2009‚ Nigeria ’s nascent democracy should have been a decade. Thus‚ the thrust of this paper is an in depth analysis of the possibility of sustaining democratic values beyond any sudden reversal. The. paper however‚ takes a cursory look at the daunting challenges
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IT COUNTRY STUDIED: NIGERIA INTRODUCTION Nigeria‚ officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria‚ is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory‚ Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west‚ Chad and Cameroon in the east‚ and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. There are over 500 ethnic groups in Nigeria of which the three largest
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Negative Effects of Globalization in Nigeria Globalization according to Clark and Wallace (2003) refers to a “greater interconnectedness of the world’s financial‚ economic‚ technological‚ political‚ cultural‚ sociological‚ ecological‚ and geographical systems” (p. 447). Globalization has various effects both positive and negative on the countries that choose to achieve the worldwide connection. In the case of Nigeria‚ which is classified by the U.S Department of State as a developing country‚ globalization
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limited‚ that we are imperfectable creatures. Though we have certain degrees of imperfection and those who are less imperfect should be the ones to rule and be in charge. Therefore in terms of their view of the individual they can be considered internally incoherent‚ since Neo-Libs have an optimistic view of the individual compared to Neo-Cons. Through their views on the individual comes their view on society. Neo-Libs view society as an implication of their view on the individual. As Thatcher
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ASSIGNMENT GST 103 NIGERIAN PEOLE AND CULTURE NANRET GODFREY DIYOCK‚ REG. No. 4785 Bed 300 level 5/20/2013 QUESTION: Trace the history of Nigeria from pre-colonial era to date highlighting the leaders that rule the country at various levels‚ also indicate specific date of leadership. QUESTION: Trace the history of Nigeria from pre-colonial era to date highlighting the leaders that rule the country at various levels‚ also indicate specific date of leadership. INTRODUCTION
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The Nigerian economy is most definitely a structured political economy similar to that of the United States. The term political economy examines the relationship between politics and economics in modern societies. Specifically‚ this relationship consists of a key alliance between the government and the economy which are manipulated by the capitalist class in order to serve all of their own interests. The capitalist class however can be further broken down into a ruling class that holds the greatest
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ECONOMY OF NIGERIA Nigeria is a middle income‚ mixed economy and emerging market‚ with expanding financial‚ service‚ communications‚ and entertainment sectors. It is ranked 30th in the world in terms of GDP (PPP) as of 2011‚ and its emergent‚ though currently underperforming manufacturing sector is the third-largest on the continent‚ producing a large proportion of goods and services for the West African region. Previously hindered by years of mismanagement‚ economic reforms of the past decade
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