Every local government in Nigeria desires quality service delivery as it is pertinent to the sustainability of grassroots development. The fundamental factor in achieving quality services, are adequate and reliable of the revenue sources as well as quality human resources that will serve as instrument for formulation and implementation of local gov... Continue Reading
The aim of this thesis is to analyse the activities of field level bureaucrats to describe how they act to overcome barriers that affect policy implementation. While most polices rely on field level bureaucrats for their implementation, there is still a lack of empirical studies that provide an adequate understanding of how field bureaucrats can ov... Continue Reading
This study assessed the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) in curbing corruption in Nigerian Extractive Industry. The high incidence of corruption, lack of accountability and transparency in the extractive industry in spite of the establishment of the NEITI possess a great challenge to good governance and the socio-econom... Continue Reading
Fiscal federalism emphasizes the need to share the functions and finances of the public sector between the federal and sub-federal units of a country. This is done to enable each unit of government to provide goods and services in areas of their competence. However, fiscal federalism, as it is practised in Nigeria, has brought some challenges to th... Continue Reading
Exports play a crucial role in the growth of any economy. It is an avenue for raising national income of the country. However, in Nigerian, oil export accounts for over 90 percent revenue to the government while non-oil export is less than 10 percent. This thesis therefore examines the performance of non-oil exports over the years as well as the re... Continue Reading
This study â€�“Assessment of the performance of Birnin Gwari and Giwa local governments Kaduna State in Community Development projects (2005-2010)â€Â� aimed at appraising the performance of the local government in promoting community development activities. The problem of the study was the drastic reduction in the funding to community develop... Continue Reading
This thesis is set to determine the impact of Public Procurement Act in the execution of capital projects, the relationship between budgetary appropriation and actual funding, also the relationship between saving benefits and total capital expenditure. To identify the challenges and prospect. Tools of data collection used were structured closed and... Continue Reading
In 2009, the federal government of Nigeria launched its amnesty programme for Niger Delta region of the country to address the concerns of the communities that host the oil and gas companies operating in the country. One of the matters arising since the launching is whether the programme has helped in the restoration of peace and security in the re... Continue Reading
Most public and private workers in Nigeria have always faced the problem of housing either during service or after retirement. This is because the mechanism put in place by the government for tackling the problem has not live to their expectations. From the inability of Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria to give out sufficient loans to workers for th... Continue Reading
The major problem of the study is the poor management of Industrial Conflicts within the University in spite the mechanism (collective bargaining) at the disposal of the Actors (ASUU and Management) with which to curtail such menace. The main research question of the study: Does collective bargaining enhances effective industrial conflict managemen... Continue Reading
Insurance companies in Nigerian have undergone reform in 2004 in order to enhance their performance and to make them stronger players nationally and internationally. Besides, in 2014 available statistics revealed that the performance of insurance companies in Nigeria still remains below average. The statistics further indicated that the companies c... Continue Reading
The study attempted to assess the implementation of the public procurement Act of Kaduna State Government. The Act was put in place because of the weakness in the general procurement system of Nigeria and be sure that, Due Process is followed in the award of contract (Public Procurement). The study tried to find out how implementation of Due Proces... Continue Reading
As a response to some financial scandals and corporate failures in Nigeria and around the globe which are linked to earnings management, certain characteristics of Board of Directors that can improve their monitoring function are suggested in the literature as corporate governance mechanisms. Thus, the study concentrated on three board characterist... Continue Reading
This study has been undertaken with the objective of examining the impact of Board of Directors Characteristics on the Risk management Capacity of listed deposit money banks in Nigeria. Using a sample of eight (8) too big to fail banks for a period of 8 years (2005-2012), the study employs correlation research design and Generalized least squares m... Continue Reading
While boards are the main tool of internal governance mechanism, their efficacy may vary depending on their diversities. This study examined the impact of Board of Directors‟ heterogeneity on the financial performance of listed deposit money banks in Nigeria. This area of board diversity especially the ethnic diversity is still a novel area o... Continue Reading