in Nigeria “Nigeria’s oil production reached 2.1 million barrels per day in 2010.” Nigeria is currently the sixth largest crude oil producer and it is the top oil producer in Africa. Similar to Bougainville Island‚ Nigeria is being exploited by many western countries and their multinational corporations because of their rich natural resource. Oil wasn’t the first thing that was exploited in Nigeria; in 1471 Portuguese traders landed near the Niger Delta‚ the southern tip of Nigeria‚ and
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The economy of Nigeria is a middle income‚ mixed economy emerging market with well-developed financial‚ legal‚ communications‚ transport‚ and entertainment sectors. It is ranked 31st in the world in terms of GDP (PPP) as of 2009‚ and its emergent‚ though currently underperforming manufacturing sector is the second-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
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CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Nigeria as a democratic country like every other nation needs the media to drive or sustain good governance and engender national development. But the media often regarded as the fourth estate of the realm have an enormous task to accomplish this role as the watchdog of the society. The task or role of the media has to a large extent not been effectively accomplished. It is important here to state that the primary role of the media in any given society is to inform
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1. Reflect on key messages you learnt about recruitment and employment for university students in the session. After listening to the sharing session by CAIO‚ I found that there are two main key points in recruitment for university graduates. The first key point is that students can always apply or work in the field that is not their professions‚ though the career path will be more challenging. Vanessa shared a few examples of the past students’ experience in finding jobs‚ for instance‚ students
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TAXATION AND FISCAL REGULATIONS IN NIGERIA INTRODUCTION The Nigerian Tax System has undergone significant changes in recent times. The Tax Laws are being reviewed with the aim of repelling obsolete provisions and simplifying the main ones. Under current Nigerian law‚ taxation is enforced by the 3 tiers of Government‚ i.e. Federal‚ State‚ and Local Government with each having its sphere clearly spelt out in the Taxes and Levies (approved list for Collection) Decree‚ 1998. Of importance at this juncture
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INJUSTICE IN NIGERIA Over the years and growing up in the dusty sahara threatened landscape of Kaduna {in mid Nigeria}‚ I have often lamented the fate of prisoners who are stripped of their freedom of movement for specific periods of time {and in some glaring cases of inhumanity of man.. for unspecified and unspecific periods}. My young and then innocent mind concluded that depriving prisoners of their freedom as it presently obtains carries along with it a collateral dehumanization of the prisoners
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Natural selection Natural selection is one of the basic mechanisms of evolution‚ along with mutation‚ migration‚ and genetic drift. Darwin’s grand idea of evolution by natural selection is relatively simple but often misunderstood. To find out how it works‚ imagine a population of beetles: 1. There is variation in traits. For example‚ some beetles are green and some are brown. 2. There is differential reproduction. Since the environment can’t support unlimited population growth‚ not all individuals
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policies and strategies of Nigerian government towards foreign direct investments are shaped by two principal objectives of desire for economic independence and the demand for economic development. Multi national corporations are expected to bring into Nigeria‚ foreign capital in the form of technical skills‚ entrepreneurship‚ technology and investment fund to boost economic activities thereby‚ rising the standard of living of Nigerian. The main issues in this paper relates to understanding the effects
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Human Resources Management Project Paper: Online Recruitment Part 1 Submitted by Sec C Mithlesh Kumar Ojha Navneet Singh Arya Ravish Kumar Literature Review Introduction Although one of the latter steps in the recruitment process‚ the choice of its recruitment tool remains fundamental for any company. The choice of the recruitment method requires that the organisation goes through an elaborate procedure considering the cost of reaching the target group‚ the time scales involved
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Internal Recruitment The assessment of an employer’s current staff to ascertain if any current employees are sufficiently skilled or qualified to perform required job vacancies. When a business engages in internal recruitment‚ a current employee might be reassigned to the new position by giving them either a promotion or an internal transfer. Advantages of Internal Recruitment Reduced Recruiting Costs There are costs associated with recruiting‚ especially when your search is conducted outside of
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