Shell Oil in Nigeria 1. What are some of the factors explaining why corruption and bribery are so high in Nigeria? Nigeria is considered to be one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Many different forms of corruption are familiar to Nigeria including political corruption‚ bureaucratic corruption‚ electoral corruption‚ embezzlement‚ and bribery. Corruption has even been said to be a viable enterprise in Nigeria due to the involvement of citizens‚ government officials‚ and private
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Abuja. According to Jega‚ there is no doubt that NYSC has the human capacity and resolve to assist INEC in producing a credible voter register and conducting a free and fair 2011 elections. He said‚ ”We want to open a new chapter in terms of how best NYSC can help INEC to give Nigerians a credible voter register and free and fair election. I want to use this opportunity to inform the NYSC D-G of our desire to recruit all our ad hoc staff for the purpose of the voter registration
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Article: 2 Problems and Prospects of Open and Distance Education in Nigeria Mudasiru Olalere YUSUF (Ph.D) Senior lecturer (Educational Technology) Department of Curriculum Studies and Educational Technology‚ Faculty of Education University of Ilorin‚ Ilorin NIGERIA ABSTRACT Distance education as a mean of providing access to education‚ particularly tertiary level education‚ has gained great prominence in the world. Nigeria has taken giant steps of recent to introduce open and distance education
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risk of Nigeria. In this regard we have identified their culture‚ people‚ economy‚ investment‚ opportunity‚ some key problems like Corruption‚ bureaucracy‚ piracy‚ Counterfeit‚ Criminal activities and fraud‚ legal safeguards etc. This paper also intends to show the regulatory framework issue‚ micro economic and macroeconomic issue to give a detailed picture of the Nigerian business Risk. But there are also upside risks especially to inflation‚ which could create challenges for Nigeria given emerging
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Nigeria is named after the Niger River. A British journalist in the 1890s named Flora Shaw suggested the name because of the river was a dominant presence in region and the name was accepted as the official name of those territories in the Niger Region. (ANYANWU) The country can be divided into three regions that include the forest lands in the south‚ the Sudan savanna in the north‚ and the Middle Belt‚ in between. Nigeria has an extensive geographic size‚ with a large degree of ecological‚ economic
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every business. For that reason a set of laws that provide legal rules and regulations that governs both the commercial or the business dealings and transactions is established under the Uniform Commercial Code. [1] Seeking uniformity amongst the states‚ the Uniform Commercial Code regulates the transfer or sale of personal property without dealing in real property. [2] The Uniform Commercial Code is one of the most important developments in American law that unfolded in the fall of 1951. [3] The first
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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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or the values of those in power. To create a system of taxation‚ a nation must make choices regarding the distribution of the tax burden-who will pay taxes and how much they will pay-and how the taxes collected will be spent. In Nigeria‚ the taxation system dates back to 1904 when the personal income tax was introduced in northern Nigeria before the unification of the country by the colonial masters. It was later implemented through the Native Revenue Ordinances to the western and eastern regions
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Nigeria: The Unstable Democracy 1999 marked Nigeria’s return to democratic rule. However Nigeria is not a stable democracy. Nigerians are still waiting to see the aspects of a democracy that many stable democracies see today; social welfare programs‚ justice‚ and equal access to resources and power. Corruption in the government‚ lack of human rights‚ increased civil discord‚ and the absence of electoral reform keep Nigeria from becoming a stable democratic country. The oil boom in the late 1970s
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modern life‚ poverty reduction and economic growth of any nation. Yet‚ for the past three decades‚ inadequate of electricity has been a regular feature in Nigeria‚ a country with about 150 million people. The electricity industry‚ dominated by National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) and later succeeded by the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) with complementation form the states-owned electricity utility‚ has been unable to provide and maintain acceptable minimum standard of service availability
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