EBONG GROUP MANAGING DIRECTOR/CHIEF EXECUTIVE UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC ABSTRACT Against the backdrop of the role of banks as financial intermediaries and their function as the engine of growth of the economy‚ this paper examines the extent to which the banking industry has helped to stimulate economic activities in Nigeria and what the prognosis looks like in the post-consolidation era. The paper notes that the banking industry in Nigeria witnessed a remarkable growth in terms of deposit base‚ number
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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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Management 307 Shell-Nigeria case The Business Ethics of Shell in Nigeria The Shell-Nigeria case has produced great debates about business practices and what is deemed ethical behavior. When applying the views of some of the great moral philosophers‚ economists‚ and philosophical concepts in history to the Shell-Nigeria case‚ one is left with a variety of diverse viewpoints about whether or not Shell’s business practices were ethical. Philosopher and economist‚ Adam Smith‚ would likely have
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structure to banking in Nigeria is a relatively recent invention. Prior to 1952 there was no legislation governing the banking system in Nigeria. The British Bank of West Africa (BBWA) started operating in Nigeria by the year 1892. After the BBWA‚ Barclays Bank became the second expatriate bank to operate in Nigeria by the year 1917. The first indigenous bank‚ The Bank of Nigeria was founded in the year 1933 and also operated successfully. After the World War 11‚ British rule over Nigeria weakened with the
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POPULATION GROWTH The absence of virtually any reliable current demographic data has not prevented national and international bodies from generating estimates and projections of population and population growth in Nigeria. The World Bank estimate of Nigeria’s 1990 population was 119 million‚ with an estimated annual growth rate of 3.3 percent. Although other sources differed on the exact figure‚ virtually all sources agreed that the annual rate of population growth in the country had increased from
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Table of contents Dedication ………………………………….. ..i Preface …………………………………….......ii Acknowledgement ……………………………iii Table of contents ……………………………..IV Topic: religious unrest in Nigeria‚ causes and effects. Chapter 1 1.1 Definitions of religion. 1.2 Types of religion. 1.3 Types of religion and religious unrest in Nigeria. Chapter 2 2.1 causes of religious unrest
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1596-8303. www.transcampus.org/journals. www.ajol.info/journals/jorind THE CHALLENGES OF ADOPTING INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING SYSTEM IN NIGERIA Anthony O. Garuba Department of Accounting and Finance‚ Western Delta University‚ Oghara‚ and Pat Donwa Department of Accounting‚ University of Benin‚ Benin City E-mail: anthonygaruba@yahoo.com Abstract Nigeria is going to adopt International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) from 1st January 2012. Globalization and Information and Communication Technology
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the demand sides of the labour market in Nigeria. On the supply side‚ there is the rapidly growing urban labour force arising from rural-urban migration. Rural-urban migration is usually explained in terms of push-pull factors. The push factors include the pressure resulting from man-land ratio in the rural areas‚ and the existence of serious underemployment arising from seasonal cycle of climate. The factors are further strengthened in Nigeria by lack of infrastructural facilities‚ which
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Communications (GSM). Communication without doubt is a major driver of any economy. Emerging trends in socio-economic growth shows a high premium being placed on information and communication technology (ICT) by homes‚ organizations‚ and nations. Nigeria is not left out in this race for rapid development as the nation’s economy has been subjected to years of economic reversal via mismanagement and bad leadership. The Nigerian telecommunications sector was grossly underdeveloped before the sector was
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and civil engineering Company‚ registered to conduct business in construction‚ real estate‚ civil‚ mechanical and electrical engineering works. Generally‚ housing and infrastructures are big matters in Nigeria‚ like it is with most developing economies in the world‚ and personally I believe Nigeria has the potential to be one of the biggest construction markets on this planet. While the world is still struggling to emerge from the global economic collapse‚ Nigeria’s construction industry is growing
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