DIVIDEND POLICY AND SHAREHOLDERS WEALTH MAXIMIZATION: A STUDY OF SELECTED QUOTED FIRMS ON THE NIGERIA STOCK EXCHANGE (NSE) BY ABDULLAHI BASHIR MUHAMMED DEPARTMENT OF BANKING AND FINANCE FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF Abuja PHONE NO: 08065727548‚ E-MAIL: Bash7th@yahoo.com ISMAILA DADDY ABUBAKAR DEPARTMENT OFECONOMICS UNIVERSITY OFABUJA PHONE NO: 08030596520 E-MAIL: abu4rim@yahoo.com AHMED TIJANI ABDULMAJEED DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY
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1.1 INTRODUCTION The term electronic voting is a blanket term used to describe an array of voting methods that operate using electronic technology. Electronic-Voting (also known as Biometric Voting) is the use of computer-based machine to display an election ballot and record the vote. E-voting machines typically use touch screens as the data entry method for a voter’s selection. E-voting is different from online voting‚ where users vote over the Internet. Under the e-voting system‚ polling stations
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Drug Testing in Nigeria Table of Contents Introduction 3 Background 3-4 Ethical Dilemma 4-5 Situational Analysis 5-6 Stakeholder Analysis 6-7 Analysis Based on Ethical Theories 7-8 Conclusion and Recommendations 8-9 References 10 Drug Testing in Nigeria Introduction ‘What if a drug company experimenting on critically ill children does not get the proper Parental consent‚ 11 of those children die and a whistleblower is fired?’ (Perlroth. 2008) This paper will discuss the issues
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As the global crisis deepened‚ the foreign investors decided to exit the Nigerian capital market‚ by off loading their large volume of shares into the market. The market got saturated with shares without corresponding buyers. On the part of the retail investors they could not catch in to take profit as share certificates were not being issued promptly and the process of certificate verification at the Registrars offices took so long to be completed. Since the retail investor could not exit and there
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Over the last three years‚ INEC‚ Nigerian politicians‚ civil society organizations‚ and the international community have all sought to learn from 1999 and 2003 elections by launching projects that aim to improve the Nigerian electoral process (Carl Le Van‚ 2006). PROBLEMS The management of electoral system in Nigeria has had the following problems: * There have been a number of alterations of the register aimed at cleaning up the lists‚ but without any audit trail to show what changes were
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SOLUTIONS TO THE NIGER DELTA PROBLEMS IN NIGERIA AN ASSIGNMENT WRITTEN IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE COURSE DVS 512: TECHNOLOGY‚ ENERGY‚ NATURAL RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT BY ISU‚ DORATHY AKWUGO PG/MSC/07/46529 LECTURER: DR. OGAKWU INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES‚ UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA‚ ENUGU CAMPUS. AUGUST 2009 BACKGROUND The Niger Delta produces the oil wealth which accounts for the bulk of Nigeria’s foreign earnings. Paradoxically however‚ these vast revenues
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REGULATIONS OF FINANCIAL REPORTING IN NIGERIA INTRODUCTION Regulation of accounting information is aimed at ensuring that users of financial statements receive a minimum amount of information that will enable them take meaningful decisions regarding their interest in a reporting entity. The bodies responsible for these regulations are often statutory agencies such as the Financial Reporting Council‚ Securities and Exchange Commission and the
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PETROLEUM INDUSTRY BILL (PIB) 2012 SUMMARY PETROLEUM INDUSTRY BILL In 2008 under the late President Umaru Yar’Adua‚ Nigeria began the arduous process of changing the institutional framework which governs the nation’s oil and gas industry. The delayed passage of the bill was followed by controversies surrounding the emergence of different versions of the document‚ Goodluck Jonathan‚ on assumption of office ordered a withdrawal of the bill to enable executive address contentious areas and ensure all
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: Max School of Technology and Society MASTER DEGREE PROJECT EXCHANGE RATE VARIATION AND INFLATION IN NIGERIA (1970- 2007) Master Degree Project in Economics and Finance D-Leval 15 ECTS Spring term Year 2008 Onosewalu Okhiria 761130-P319 Taofeek Sesan Saliu 761130-P719 Supervisor: Bernd-Joachim Schuller(PhD) Examiner: Max Zamanian (PhD) ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of exchange rate on inflation in Nigeria economy between 1970 and 2007. We analysed the trend of inflation
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Alex DaPonte Mrs. Gill College English March 27 2012 Atonement and Redemption‚ the Cure to Sin Sin will always be part of humanity‚ but the atonement of those sins is what matters in the end. What changes is the severity of the sin and the lengths one has to go in order to atone for those sins and redeem one’s self. In Hosseini’s novel‚ The Kite Runner‚ guilt‚ atonement of sins and redemption all show that no matter what a person’s sin may be‚ he or she will always be able to atone for that
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