NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY‚ CALIFORNIA THESIS NIGERIA AND THE BOKO HARAM SECT: ADOPTING A BETTER STRATEGY FOR RESOLVING THE CRISIS by Aminu Mohammed Umar June 2013 Thesis Co-Advisors: Hafez Mohammed Jessica R. Piombo Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE Form Approved OMB No. 0704-0188 Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response
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particularly‚ in the U.S in the mid to late 1980’s. Oil price shocks and aggregate stock returns are important macroeconomic variable in the open economy‚ because high oil prices tend to show how vibrant a stock market is because it helps to attract capital inflows from foreign investors‚ which in turn increases the demand for its currency. On the other hand‚ falling oil prices allow foreign investors try sells their stocks to avoid further losses and allow their money into foreign currency allowing
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No. 3. May 2013 Issue. Pp. 71 – 88 Performance Appraisal of Indian Public Sector Banks Parvesh Kumar Aspal * and Naresh Malhotra** The strength of economy of any country basically hinges on the strength and efficiency of financial system‚ which‚ in turn‚ depends upon a sound banking system. The regulators have recommended bank’s supervision through CAMEL rating model to assess the performance of banks‚ which is better than the earlier systems. The prime objective of CAMEL model of rating
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Construction and Architectural Engineering Vol:7‚ No:11‚ 2013 Traffic Congestion on Highways in Nigeria Causes‚ Effects and Remedies Popoola M. O.‚ Abiola S. O.‚ Adeniji W. A. International Science Index Vol:7‚ No:11‚ 2013 waset.org/Publication/17391 Abstract—This study investigates the causes‚ effects and remedies of traffic congestion which has become a common sight in most highways in Nigeria; Mowe/Ibafo section of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway was used as the case-study. 300 Structured questionnaires
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an increasingly aggressive environment in which competition for revenue is top priority. The Nigerian Bank can now fit into the global definition of bank. Consolidation of the Nigerian Banking sector is one of many reforms of the Gen. Obasanjo ’s administration that Nigerians have to embrace happily. (Victor E‚ 2007) Prior to the reforms‚ the industry was highly fragmented‚ with many banks having very small and undiversified capitalisation. With a much higher capitalisation base‚ the Nigerian
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IKEA in Nigeria Nasser Mardini Virginia International University Global Sourcing and Logistics - MBA 628 September 15‚ 2012 Dr. Stephen Onu Company history IKEA was founded in 1943by Ingvar Kamprad aged 17 in a small farming village in Sweden. The name IKEA was formed from the founder’s initials I.K. plus the first letters of Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd‚ the farm and village where Kamprad grew up. Originally IKEA sold everything from pens and wallets to picture frame‚ watched and even ladies
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES PROFITABILITY OF MOMENTUM STRATEGIES: AN EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS Narasimhan Jegadeesh Sheridan Titman Working Paper 7159 http://www.nber.org/papers/w7 159 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 June 1999 This paper has benefited from the excellent research assistance of Fei Zou and helpful comments from the participants of finance workshops at Indiana University and the University of Texas. All opinions expressed
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HOW TO MANAGE SMALL SCALE BUSINESS IN NIGERIA EFFECTIVELY THE VALUE OF EFFECTIVE CREDIT MANAGEMENT TO SMALL SCALE BUSINESS IN NIGERIA INTRODUCTION Management of small business is as complex as the big one. Account receivables are important assets and valuable part of the working capital. Effective management of this component is very crucial to any type of business for its survival and for ensuring its growth. Effective credit administration will not only ensure continuity but can make
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society. Nigeria with its rather unfair share of the canker worm has as its greatest threat the endemic and malignant nature of corruption. You bribe to get your child into a school‚ you pay to secure a job and you also continue to pay in some cases to retain it. corruption indeed is a bane of any nation. This research work discuses the possible causes of corruption in addition to its effect which seems to rooted in socio- cultural practices and the political and economic realities of Nigeria.
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confidence reposed in another person. The term credit thus means reposing trust of confidence in some body. Credit is purchasing power not derived from income but created by financial institution either as an offset to idle income held by deposition in the bank or as a need addition to the total amount purchasing. By credit we mean the power which one person has to induce another to put economic good at this disposal a time on promise or future payment. Credit is thus‚ an attributed of power the borrower
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