1. A SURVEY OF FUEL HIKE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON FOOD PRODUCTION AND SUPPLY IN NIGERIA
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
A historical examination of the Nigerian economy and its expansion reveals farming as the primary economic sector and the source of foreign exchange. Agriculture accounted for more than 80% of export profits and salaries in the 1...
2. AN INVESTIGATION OF MERGER AND ACQUISITION AND ITS EFFECTS ON AN ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
There are typically triumphs and failures in all human endeavors. As a result, businesses are no exception. Many corporate enterprises and people struggled in an era of abundance and waste mania, such as we saw in the mid-seventi...
3. THE IMPACT OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES ON THE ECONOMY
Background of the Study
Agriculture is the foundation and bedrock upon which the development of stable human community has depended on throughout the whole universe such as rural and urban communities. It is concerned with the husbandry of crops and ani...
4. THE PRIVATIZATION POLICY IN NIGERIA AN EVALUATION OF ITS IMPLICATION
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
The Nigerian National Petroleum corporation and the petroleum ministry appear desperate to maintain their hold on the downstream sector of the oil industry by planning new refineries and voting more money to maintain the existing...
5. AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES AND ITS IMPACT ON THE NIGERIA ECONOMY
Background of the Study
Agriculture is the foundation and bedrock upon which the development of stable human community has depended on throughout the whole universe such as rural and urban communities. It is concerned with the husbandry of crops and ani...
6. BENEFITS OF TURNING SUPPLY CHAIN INTO REVENUE CHAIN IN PRODUCTION COMPANIES
EXCERPT FROM THE STUDY
Based on findings, the study concludes that supply chain management practices are strongly related to profitability where adoption of superior practices leads to increased profitability. This is due to the fact that disruption in the supply chain in terms of deliv...
7. CONSTRAINTS TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS BY LOCAL PRODUCERS IN TARABA STATE
EXCERPT FROM THE STUDY
Problems in agricultural marketing include large number of middlemen who intervene between producers and consumers and cause the producers’ share of profit to reduce (John, Oral, Parr & Richard, 2010).Anothe...
8. EFFECTS OF MERGER AND ACQUISITION ON ORGANIZATIONAL OPTIMAL GROWTH
ABSTRACT
Corporate growth was much desired by most companies operating in Nigeria these was because of the advantage of high profit ability to dictate to some certain degree in terms of industry and market which lead to enlargement in market share brought about by the g...
9. IMPACT OF INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ON ORGANISATION PRODUCTIVITY (CASE STUDY OF NNPC TOWERS, ABUJA)
Background To The Study
ICT (information and communication technology) has altered the manner in which people live, study, work, and associate. According to Tambe and Hitt (2016), ICT is a means through which businesses seek out creative ways of functio...
10. AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CHALLENGES OF POLLUTION AND AN ENGINEERING METHODS TO THE MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENTS IN OTTA, NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
This study examined the effects of effluent discharges from various point-loads on a purposively selected receiving river, the self-recovery ability of the river and the treatability of both the discharges and the receiving stream in a heavily industrialized co...
11. THE DEREGULATION OF DOWNSTREAM OIL SECTOR IN NIGERIA AS A SOLUTION TO ECONOMIC RECOVERY OF THE COUNTRY
ABSTRACT
This study examined the deregulation of the downstream oil sector in Nigeria as a panacea to economic recovery of the country (An Analysis of 2010-2015 Economic Programme of Nigeria). In this study the researcher has find out some of the problems that are facin...
12. AN APPRAISAL OF THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE REGULATION OF UNIFORM PRICING OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS IN NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
This study examined why the prices of petroleum products continues to be priced differently in Nigeria despite the existence of uniform pricing law on petroleum products. The study also examined the principle of deregulation of downstream petroleum sector in Nigeria in order to...
13. AN EXAMINATION OF THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE MARKETING OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS IN THE DOWNSTREAM SECTOR OF THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
Hitherto, to many, the concept of oil and gas was limited to the search for, work and win crude oil. So, for many decades, nations only concerned themselves with upstream petroleum activities. The availability of crude oil determines the extent of relevance a nation commanded a...
14. Improving Deep Representations by Incorporating Domain Knowledge and Modularization for Synthetic Aperture Radar and Physiological Data
Abstract
Machine Learning (ML) using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), referred to as Deep Learning (DL), is a very popular and powerful method of statistical inference. A primary advantage of deep-learning has been the automatic learning of informative features (that encodes the data...
15. Toward Knowledge-Centric Natural Language Processing: Acquisition, Representation, Transfer, and Reasoning
Abstract
Past decades have witnessed the great success of modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) via learning incredible statistical correlations from large-scale data. However, a knowledge gap still exists between the statistical learning of AI and the human-like learning process. Unlike...
16. CHARACTERIZATION OF POLLUTION HAZARDS OF SELECTED SURFACE AND GROUNDWATER SYSTEMS IN BIDA CATCHMENT AREA OF NIGER STATE, NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
Water quality analysis was done for both surface and groundwater samples. For surface water, samples were taken from the upstream; middle; and downstream sections of the river Landzun. Similarly, for groundwater, samples were collected from specific locations around the Bida ca...
17. MACROINVERTEBRATE DIVERSITY AND WATER QUALITY PATTERN OF A MUNICIPAL STREAM IN DOKO DISTRICT, NIGER STATE, NIGERIA
Abstract
Macroinvertebrates organisms form significant part of an aquatic ecosystem which are of ecological and economic importance because they maintain various levels of interaction within aquatic environment. Emikpata stream in Doko district, Niger State, Nigeria is used for a variet...
