INTRODUCTION: Nigeria‚ a nation endowed with natural‚ human and capital resources with a population of over 160 million people an estimated growth rate of 4.65 percent and covers 923.8 thousand square kilometers‚ about the size of California‚ Nevada and Arizona states in the United States‚ (Usman‚ 2007). Nigeria as a country‚ is the eight largest oil exporting country in the world and its oil reserves are estimated over 1000 trillion cubic feet (Usman‚ 2007). It is unfortunate that a country with
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTONOMY IN NIGERIA; A NEED FOR CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM "The basic irony between the U.S system and ours is that; while the various forms of local government are working wonders even when they are not mentioned anywhere in the U.S constitution; complaints over the failings of the Local Governments abound here even when they are entrenched in and catered for by
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Executive Summary This report elaborates about the impact and relevance of social networking to Starbucks and how to cope with the issues. The types of social networking that will be discussed in this report including social media‚ labor union‚ Fairtrade Foundation and Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA). Social media could be an opportunity to Starbucks to do some viral marketing‚ community marketing‚ and consumer-generated marketing. This kind of social networking helps Starbucks to enlarge
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THE EFFECT OF GLOBALIZATION ON NIGERIA CULTURE - Nneka Oringamje Globalization refers to the increasingly global relationship of culture‚ people and economic activity. While culture on the other hand‚ is the recognition of good literature‚ enjoyment of good music‚ food and arts. According to Anthropologist Edward B. Taylor in his book‚ Primitive Culture‚ published in 1871. Taylor said that culture is "that complex whole which includes knowledge‚ belief‚ art‚ law‚ morals‚ custom‚ and any other
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INTRODUCTION: Financial reporting is the process of recording‚ evaluating and communicating financial information where as investment involved the allocation of resources to investment proposal whose benefit can be derived in future. Shareholders and investors are concerned with value of their investment and any income they expect to drive from shareholdings. Financial reports give them an account of how directors have handled resources given to them. The company Act specify directors’ emoluments
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‘I am a writer who wishes to write international novels. What is an ‘international’ novel? I believe it to be one‚ quite simply‚ that contains a vision of life that is of importance to people of varied backgrounds around the world. It may concern characters who jet across continents‚ but may just as easily be set firmly in one small locality.’ – Kazuo Ishiguro How do Ishiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’ and Camus’ ‘The Outsider’ convey this vision of life? Narration is used as a tool in The
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is one of the emerging technology areas where Nigeria is lacking in expertise. It is classified in the same group as ICT and biotechnology. Already‚ the technology is being used in advanced economies of the WEST and SOUTH-EAST Asia‚ to create high technology industries in areas of electronics‚ medicine‚ development of new materials and space. Nanotechnology has been identified as one of the technologies of the technologies of the future for Nigeria. This is therefore the time to key into the global
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THE RELEVANCE OF THE SOCIOLOGICAL SCHOOL OF JURISPRUDENCE TO LEGAL STUDIES IN NIGERIA BY ETUDAIYE‚ MUHTAR ADEIZA INTRODUCTION Jurisprudence among its many definitions has been described as being concerned with “the nature of law‚ its purposes‚ the means (institutional and conceptual) necessary to effectuate these purposes‚ the limits of the law‟s efficacy‚ the relation of law to justice and morality and the modes by which law changes and grows historically”.1 This is a definition that is almost apt
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REPOSITIONING POLYTECHNIC EDUCATION IN NIGERIA BY EZE‚ MARCELLUS MARK OKONKWO Chief Instructor Office Technology and Management (OTM) Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechhic‚ Unwana‚ P M B 1007‚ Afikpo‚ Ebonyi State‚ Nigeria Email: mmoeze@yahoo.com markmarcel.eze6@gmail.com 08069398338‚ 08059844544‚ 08085026477 Abstract Education is the bedrock of any development in any economy; whereas technical/technology education is the solid base for any technological development. The problem identified
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Nigeria is a developing country that is abundantly rich in many natural resources and as a result has a good number of multinational corporations ranging from oil companies‚ banks to consulting firms. Unfortunately‚ CSR is a concept that I personally believe the government has left to expectations‚ believing the multinational corporations would do what is ‘right’ by offering certain benefits to the society and the environment. As a result of this approach‚ Corporate and social responsibility has
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