their suicide rates. Countries like China‚ Japan‚ Singapore‚ Australia & Pakistan have joined the project‚ Strategies to Prevent Suicide (STOPS)‚ in order to lessen their increasing number of suicide. However‚ in trying to prevent the increase in number of suicide deaths and attempts‚ one must know what the leading causes of it are. Suicide rates change over time‚ and the factors influencing them remain poorly understood. Economic factors‚ in particular unemployment & income growth‚ have been
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ECONOMY OF NIGERIA Nigeria is a middle income‚ mixed economy and emerging market‚ with expanding financial‚ service‚ communications‚ and entertainment sectors. It is ranked 30th in the world in terms of GDP (PPP) as of 2011‚ and its emergent‚ though currently underperforming manufacturing sector is the third-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 decade
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OVERVIEW OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT In this chapter‚ we discussed the various elements of human resources management. Also the review of some existing literature relevant to the study‚ is made to refer to some scholars work related to the topic under study. It has been a general agreement that training and development is a good thing and that it increase productivity‚ but the question is “how much? It is even difficult to show causal link between HR development and national /organizational
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Lagos BSTRACT Generally‚ 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
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2. THEORY OF DEMAND AND SUPPLY: THEORY OF DEMAND: Demand refers to the quantity of a product that consumers are willing and able to buy at a particular price and over a given period of time. The law of demand states that more is bought at a lower price than at a higher price. In other words‚ the law of demand postulates an inverse relationship between the price and quantity demanded of a commodity‚ all other factors affecting demand remain constant (ceteris paribus). A market demand curve
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market operations is worth stressing (CBN‚ 2004; Ezirim‚ 2005). Notwithstanding these and other roles performed by discount houses in a typical economy‚ the Nigerian money market operations are said to be sub-optimal in terms of engineering desired growth in the economy. The observed sub-optimality of the Nigerian money market is blamed‚ in part‚ on the poor performance of discount houses and other money market institutions. Discount houses‚ from the onset of their operations in the country‚ were expected
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generated a lot of inconclusive controversies is the movement to flexible exchange rate which first occurred in the developed countries in 1973‚ and much later in the developing countries. The controversy especially for the developing countries is whether flexible exchange rate is actually as beneficial as mostly claimed. Since the move to floating exchange rate system in 1973 the effects of volatility in exchange rate has continued to generate series of responses. Of all the major macroeconomic
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activities. Types of cyber crime Various types of cybercrimes have been discussed in the literature and have also been experienced by bankers and other financial institutions. Notable worldwide cybercrimes common in developing countries including Nigeria and Ghana are hacking‚ data theft‚ spreading virus or worms‚ fraud or identity theft‚ yahoo attack‚ and cyber terrorism. Hacking Hacking means unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network. Also‚
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http://unllib.unl.edu/LPP/ Library Philosophy and Practice 2011 ISSN 1522-0222 Globalization of Cultural Heritage: Issues‚ Impacts‚ and Inevitable Challenges for Nigeria Mercy U. Nwegbu Cyril C. Eze Brendan E. Asogwa Introduction Culture is the totality of learned‚ socially transmitted customs‚ knowledge‚ material objects and behaviour. It includes the ideas‚ value‚ customs and artefacts of a group of people (Schaefer‚ 2002). Culture is a pattern of human activities and the symbols that give
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democratic rule in 1999‚ Nigeria has witnessed the relative deterioration of its internal security. This is worrisome because internal security crisis is inherent with tendencies that threaten national unity and the peace of the state. This research attempts a critical analysis of the causative of the relative insecurity in Nigeria in relation to the problem of policing in Jos which is located in the northern region of Nigeria. The work is aimed at taking an indebt look into the Nigeria police force‚ which
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