Civil Aviation in Nigeria is a child of very humble beginnings‚ a spin-off of the British Colonial rule. But above all else‚ it is a product of a mere accident of history dating back to 1925 in the unlikeliest of places - the ancient‚ walled city of Kano. Sometime in July of that year the Northern city was gripped by a tense stand-off between the residents and the colonial government officials. The British government at the time was maintaining an active Royal Air Force (RAF) base in Khartoum‚
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British Colonizing in Nigeria In the late 19th and early 20th century‚ Europeans had raced to colonize the country Africa. Great Britain was the leaders at this time in colonizing the land filled with rich natural recourses. These recourses were considered a necessity to the industrialization of the world‚ specifically Nigeria. During this colonization that Great Britain was doing in their new land‚ you could imagine that the locals were not too happy about this. The British had no respect for
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Right to Life Committee "Call now and you can ..."‚ "For less than ten cents a day ..."‚ "Come and show your support by ..."‚ do any of these popular attempts at getting consumers to support organizations sound familiar? They should‚ because many non-profit organizations will use these slogans to get consumers to not only donate money‚ but also time and sponsorship. The National Right to Life Committee is no exception to this type of soliciting. The National Right to Life Committee tries to appeal
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIA BY Sheriffdeen A. TELLA‚ Ph.D Department of Economics‚ Faculty of Management Science‚ Olabisi Onabanjo University‚ PMB 2002‚ Ago-Iwoye Ogun State‚ Nigeria satellang@yahoo.com and Lloyd Ahamefule AMAGHIONYEODIWE‚ Ph.D* Department of Economics Faculty of the Social sciences University of the West Indies‚ Mona Kingston 7‚ Jamaica. lamaghionyeodiwe@yahoo.co.uk and Bolaji Adesola ADESOYE Department of Economics‚ Faculty of
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Electronic Retail Payment Systems: User Acceptability and Payment Problems in Nigeria 1.1 Introduction The world has witnessed an upsurge of electronic payment instruments meant to facilitate trade and simplify payments. (Abor‚ 2004) Before the introduction of electronic payment into the Nigerian banking system‚ all customers had to walk into the actual bank to do transaction of all kinds. Customers had to queue up and spend more hours to talk to a teller to make their transactions. (Abor‚ 2004)
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Managing Challenges in Banking Industry By: Dr. Sudhindra Bhat MBA‚ MFM‚ ACS‚ M.Phil‚ PGDS&MM‚ PGDIR&PM‚ PhD** Management Faculty‚ Consultant and Corporate Trainer Acharya Institute of Management and Sciences 1st Cross‚ 1st stage‚ Peenya industrial Area‚ Bangalore-560 058 E-mail: bhatt1978@yahoo.com Financial System is the most important institutional and functional vehicle for economic transformation of any country. Banking sector is reckoned as a hub and barometer of the financial
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Science Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Nigeria: An Empirical Analysis Obida Gobna Wafureα Abu‚ NurudeenΩ Abstract: The role of foreign direct investment in the development of Nigerian economy cannot be over emphasized. Foreign direct investment provides capital for investment‚ it enhances job creation and managerial skills‚ and possibly technology transfer. This paper investigates the determinants of foreign direct investment in Nigeria. The error correction technique was employed to analyze
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Head Counts and House Census to Nigerian Sustainable Development Kofo A. Aderogba Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences Tai Solarin University of Education Ijebu-Ode‚ Ogun State‚ Nigeria kofoaderogba@yahoo.com Key words Population census‚ Limitations‚ Sustainable development‚ Virtues‚ Nigeria Abstract The 2006 population censu was scheduled‚ planned and executed. The objective of this paper is to highlight the uniqueness and credible attributes of the exercise: and to make recommendations
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* INTRODUCTION * TRANSMISSION OF HIV * MODES OF TRANSMISION SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED MOTHER-TO-BABY MEDICAL AND SURGICAL EQUIPMENTS BLOOD TRASNFUSION AND ORGAN TRANSPLANT HEALTH WORKERS * SIGNS AND SYMTOMS * PHASES OF HIV AND AIDS ACUTE HIV DISEASE LATENCY PHASE AIDS PHASE * CONFIRMATION AND COUNCELLING * STIGMATISATION * PREVENTION INTRODUCTION HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome HIV is the virus
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the right country‚ the United States‚ at the right time (1930)”. None of us has a say in where he is born‚ but we can do something about it for our children. I therefore wish to discuss each factor associated with quality of life as related to Nigeria and plead for suggestions from all of us on how to improve on them so as to make this country a good place for us to live: * Material wellbeing as measured by GDP per head: The gross domestic product (GDP) or gross domestic income (GDI) is
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