1. A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF THE SENTENCE STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH AND IGARRA LANGUAGES
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
The most primary aim of language is communication, and communication can be transactional or interactional. However, different languages have different forms a...
2. AN ASSESSMENT OF CORPORATIVE PERFORMANCE VARIABLES THAT DETERMINE DIVIDEND PAYOUT POLICIES OF MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES IN NIGERIA
Background of the Study
The success of corporations is influenced by a variety of factors, one of which is dividend policy. Dividend policy is used to keep a manager's opportunism under check. Empirical studies reveal that companies in underdevelope...
3. AN ASSESSMENT OF FINANCIAL STATEMENT AND ITS USEFULNESS IN ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF AN ORGANIZATION
Background Of Study
A farmer who planted corps expects results, just as a student who waits for an exam does. The same may be said for an investor. The farmer may be informed of the outcome in the form of a bountiful crop. A pupil would normally be satisfied with a resu...
4. IMPACT OF OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE ON THE OBJECTIVITY OF PRIVATE BROADCASTING STATIONS IN NIGERIA
Background of the Study
Media as a watchdog and the mirror of the nation perform crucial roles in the society and as well it is influence in its editorial policy. Lazar field and Kendal (2002,p.32), insist that mass is truly applicable to the medium of...
5. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF FOOD SAFETY AMONG PORK MARKETERS
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Pig is one of the domestic animals found in Nigeria and most parts of West Africa. Pigs are reared for the production of meat called pork and fat called lard. The pig produces litters twice a year. One litter or...
6. SOLVING UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM THROUGH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SMALL SCALE INDUSTRIES (SSIS)
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The small scale industries (SSIs) form the bedrock of the economic growth in every nation. No country achieves a viable economic growth and development without the establishment of small scale business firms. They have always bee...
7. THE ADMINISTRATION OF COLONIAL TAXATION IN ZARIA PROVINCE
Introduction
By 1900, the partition of Africa among the colonizing powers of Europe -France, Britain, Germany, Belgium, Dutch, Italy and Portugal was practically completed. Though, the detailed demarcation of the co...
8. THE CONTRIBUTION OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA ECONOMY
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Having chosen this topic to write on, my objectives is to find out the roles played by our financial institutions in our present economic situation whether they being followed in this time of economic recession their effects on the economy and t...
9. THE CONTRIBUTION OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA ECONOMY
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Having chosen this topic to write on, my objectives is to find out the roles played by our financial institutions in our present economic situation whether they being followed in this time of economic recession their effects on the economy and t...
10. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF FOOD SAFETY AMONG PORK MARKETERS
Pig is one of the domestic animals found in Nigeria and most parts of West Africa. Pigs are reared for the production of meat called pork and fat called lard. The pig produces litters twice a year. One litter or one birth give between eight (8) and sixteen (16) piglets. Th...
11. THE IMPACT OF AUDITORS REPORT ON FRAUD PREVENTION AND CONTROL
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Banks and financial Institutions are the most acceptable versatile, delicate .and popular forms of the present day joint increased capital base and insurance cover has necessitated the demand for more capital . which in must cases has been achieved through issue...
12. EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF COVID-19 AMONG COLLEGE OF EDUCATION STUDENTS
EXCERPT FROM THE STUDY
The outbreak of Coronavirus negatively affected educational activities worldwide. The coronavirus pandemic affected educational systems worldwide, leading to the widespread closures of schools (Emmanuel, 2020). It created serious disruptions in ac...
13. CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA AS A CATALYST TO NATIONAL ECONOMIC POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA
Background of the Study
Economic policies are deliberate actions by the authority geared towards influencing total spending, output, income, cost of money, employment and other economic activities in an economy. Economic development on the other h...
14. CHALLENGES AND PROSPECT IN BUGGETARY SYSTEM IN PUBLIC SERVICE IN NIGERIA
Background to the Study
Budgeting is an important concept that is pertinent to any organization (Schadone, 2012). In very generic terms also, Igbara, Tordee, Nwadike and Abuba (2016, p.1) described the budget as the distribution of resources (most often...
15. THE ROLE OF COOPERATIVE SOCIETY ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF EDO STATE (A CASE STUDY OF ORHIONMWON LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA)
EXCERPT FROM THE STUDY
In Nigeria, cooperatives were introduced by the colonial during the First World War. These cooperatives which were consumer in nature were used by the colonial masters to ration essential commodities. This cooperative was restricted to only white...
16. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND ORGANISATION PERFORMANCE
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Collective bargaining allows both workers and managers to discuss specific terms that can, depending on national law, determine the rules that govern their relationship, determine wages, deal with other maters of mutual int...
17. COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ENUANI AND THE NKWERRE DIALECT OF IGBO LANGUAGE
Background Of The Study
Before the 16th century, the Igbo had an ideogram form of writing called “Nsibidi ideograms” (“Nsibidi” is an ancient system of graphic communication indigenous to the “Ejagham people of South-easter...
18. BRITAIN AND NIGERIA’S INDEPENDENCE IN 1960
ABSTRACT
This study was carried out to examine Britain and Nigeria's independence in 1960. Specifically, the study examined how the Nigerian territory was allotted to Britain and how they were able to colonize Nigeria. The study also...
19. ECONOMIC POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF PORT CONCESSION IN NIGERIA
Introduction
Privatization as a policy has existed in one form or another since antiquity. In ancient Greece, the state retained ownership of land, forests, and mines but ceded the provision of services to the p...
20. THE TREND IN HOME ECONOMICS STUDENTS PERFORMANCE IN JNIOR CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION
Background to the Study
Academic performance has been described as the scores attained by students at a given moment. This scholastic standing could be explained in terms of the grades obtained in a course or groups of courses (Daniels and Schoulen...
21. EFFECT OF TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONALISM ON STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN ENGLISH
Background of the Study
Education is a continuous process in human life. It is the process of training, imparting and developing the knowledge, skills, abilities, mind and character of the people (Olaniyonu, 2008). Education is equally the process of ha...
22. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ELECTRONIC TICKETING SYSTEM
Background of the Study
In the advanced world like China, Britain, Australia and the United State of America, ticketing system are usually automated with the use of internet and e-commerce. Smart cards are usually used to make payment and ticket genera...
23. A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF INFANT MORTALITY RATE IN ABIA STATE (A CASE STUDY OF FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTRE UMUAHIA FROM 1995 TO 2004)
INTRODUCTION
The federal government has made significant progress in the following fields since Nigeria gained independence in 1960: agriculture, education, industries, health services, banking, among others. The government has worked to guarantee that everyone, especia...
24. ASSESSMENT OF AGRICULTURAL SECTOR AS A KEY TO DIVERSIFICATION OF THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY FOR SUSTANABLE DEVELOPMENT
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Economic history provides strong evidence that an agricultural revolution is a necessary precondition for economic progress. Ayoola (2015) opined that the agriculture sector has the ability to serve as an industrial and economic springboard...
25. THE IMPACT OF INTEGRATED GROUP BASED MASTERY LEARNING MODEL ON SOCIAL STUDIES STUDENT PERFORMANCE
Background of the study
Recent sociopolitical and economic developments in the world and within nations have resulted in revised educational objectives and increased difficulty for social studies (Udo, & Udofia, 2022). Schools are required to educate students...
26. EFFECTIVE USE OF TEACHING METHODS AS A CORRELATES OF STUDENTS PERFORMANCE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN SECONDARY
Background of the study
Education is a beacon that illuminates the path that humanity should take in order to reach its full potential. In addition to making students how to read and write, the goal of education is to instill in them the ability to think critically, ac...
27. EFFECTS OF 7E-LEARNING CYCLE MODEL ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN BIOLOGY
Background of the Study
Education is one of the tools that may be used to deal with the issues that will be faced in the 21st century. Prior to the turn of the 21st century, education systems all over the world were primarily centered on the transmission of information...
28. EFFECTIVE USE OF TEACHING METHODS AS A CORRELATES OF STUDENTS PERFORMANCE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN EKITI STATE
Background of the study
Education is a beacon that illuminates the path that humanity should take in order to reach its full potential. In addition to making students how to read and write, the goal of education is to instill in them the ability to think critically, ac...
29. INSECURITY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND RESOLUTIONS
ABSTRACT
Since Nigeria got her independence from Britain in 1960, the country’s political structural arrangement has been under one central government called Federal Government (via a Federal Republic) and was blessed with unquantifiable natural,...
30. THE PREVALENCE OF OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS
ABSTRACT
Principals play a pivotal role in performance of students in secondary schools. In many instances, this calls for high professional and societal demands, and expectations. As a result, principals experience str...
31. RELEVANCE OF NEWSPAPER IN ENHANCING READING ABILITY AMONG STUDENTS
Background to the Study
The first newspaper to be published was a daily news-sheet called actadium (daily event) which was in Rome around 15BC. This was followed by Dibao published in China in which caved wooden block were used in printing it durin...
32. POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND CHALLENGES OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF THE GOODLUCK JONATHAN ADMINISTRATION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The fundamental gains of economic development generally are manifested in the bettered and improved lives of the citizens of a nation through provisions of portable water supply, extreme reduction of poverty, low employment rates, high literacy r...
33. THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE IN IN THE RESOLUTION OF BAKASI CONFLICT
ABSTRACT
Territorial disputes are endemic in Africa; the Bakassi dispute was one of such. It was submitted by Cameroon to the International Court of Justice at The Hague for its determination. The judgement that followed suffered weighty denunciation particularly in...
34. THE UN AND THE GULF CRISIS, 1990-1999 (A CRITIQUE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY)
Background of the study
"Emotion, not intellect, is the dynamic of history," as H. N. Brailsford has observed. Of the great ideas which have captured men's imaginations, in the modern democratic age at least, most have arisen from some urgent emotional nee...
35. WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN AFRICAN CONSTITUTIONS: A DESIDERATUM OR A MERE FEMINIST UTOPIAN AGENDA?
Background of the Study
It would appear correct to say that the subject of women’s rights is one of the most contentious and seemingly nebulous aspects of human rights j...
36. THE EFFECTS OF TV ADVERTS ON CHILDREN (A CASE STUDY OF ENUGU URBAN)
BACKGROUND OF STUDY
Television advertisement represents one of the several stimuli to which children are exposed, like other kinds of stimuli existing within their environment. Television advertisement has a powerful tendency to influence children&rsquo...
37. A CRITICAL ANALYSIS ON THE USE OF FINANCIAL STATEMENT IN ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF AN ORGANIZATION (A CASE STUDY OF UNION BANK PLC)
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A farmer, who plants corps, expects result, similarly to student who sits for examination expects results. The same is also true of an investor. For the farmer, the result might be communi...
38. OIL-PALM PRODUCTION IN EJIGBO COMMUNITY IN OSUN STATE, 1960-2000
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Indigenous arts in Nigeria are as old as time immemorial and contemporary as yesterday. They are as old because they have got their history back in antiquity and contemporary because they are still w...
39. KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF STUDENTS TOWARDS HIVAIDS
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Sex is a basic physiological need of every human being, male and females are created with different class, to serve as a compliment for each other, this complementary role includes sex, therefore a man and a woman are expected to engage in sexua...
40. EVALUATION OF THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS REGULATION IN NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
The frightening and unpleasant experience of failed banks in Nigeria with the attendant consequences of the advent of wonder banks, macro-economic problems, failure of municipal legislation, threat of another round of bank failures etc., have all made the need for an evaluation...
41. A Comparative Study of Nigerian, American and British Nonverbal Communications
1 Background of the Study
Human beings use verbal and nonverbal means to communicate. Nonlinguistic messages are important because what people do often conveys more meaning than what they say. At first glance, it seems as if meanings come from words alone but nonverbal communication acc...
42. A HISTORY OF BRITISH AID IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN BENUE STATE, 1992-2003
ABSTRACT
Since 1992 the British Government, through its aid agency, the Overseas Development Administration (ODA), later known as the Department for International Development (DFID), began to provide development assistance to Benue State mainly, but not exclusively, in the area of healt...
43. AN ASSESSMENT OF NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS’ COVERAGE OF THE NIGER DELTA
Background to the Study
The Niger Delta region of Nigeria is very strategic to the country‟s economic and political existence. This is explained by the fact that the country‟s oil resources which account for 90 per cent of her foreign exchange earnings and about 80 per...
44. THE CONTRIBUTION OF BANK OF INDUSTRY (BOI) TO INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA (1980-2010)
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Industrial financing organizations have undergone a structural transformation during the last three decades in most developing countries. In this process of transformation, industrial development banks have emerged as catalytic agent of industrial and economic gr...
45. THE IMPACT OF PRIVATIZATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION ON THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
To be able to transform into an industrialized economy an underdeveloped economy has to privately and commercially develop. The importance of establishing public enterprises or corporations began during the 19th century with the British Telecom in 1884 under the...
46. PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF THE ROLE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF N-POWER IN BENUE STATE
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It is a known fact that the emergence of broadcasting in Nigeria has brought about unprecedented growth and development in virtually every facet of human endeavor.
Broadcasti...
47. INFLUENCE OF TELEVISION ADVERTISING ON CONSUMER BUYING HABITS OF GUINNESS STOUT IN IKEJA COMMUNITY OF LAGOS STATE
Background of the Study
One function of the mass media which is becoming increasingly important in the modern world is the economic functions of advertising. The mass media perform this function for the people by bringing together buyers and sellers through advertisements. Again, the wo...
48. CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN GOMBE METROPOLIS
Background of study
Political violence refers to all collective attacks within a political community against the political regime, its actors- including competing political groups as well as incumbents or its policies (Halliru, 2013). According to Millington (2007), from confrontations...
49. A Study of Rail Mass Transit in Lagos and its Environs.
Statement of the Problem
In spite of the rapid growth of Lagos in recent times, road transport remains the main means of transportation in Lagos while development of rail and water transportation modes is currently neglected. The result has been persistent road congestion, overcrowded b...
50. A STUDY OF LEGISLATIVE-EXECUTIVE RELATIONS IN NIGERIA 8TH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Background to the Study
In Nigeria, since the return of democratic governance in 1999, and after over a decade of military interregnum, relations between the legislative and executive arms of government have raised serious concerns for observers. At best the relationshi...
