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Banks are a vital part of every economy. It is the driving force behind society and economic progress. The importance of banking services to any economy's growth and development cannot be overstated. Prior to the introduction...
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Infrastructure is very significant to a country’s developmental prospect, the adequacy of infrastructure may determine a country’s success of failure in diversifying production, coping with population growth, reducing...
Background To The Study
Infrastructure is very significant to a country’s developmental prospect, the adequacy of infrastructure may determine a country’s success of failure in diversifying production, coping with population growth, reducing...
Background of the study
Since time immemorial, local government autonomy has been a discussing issue among academic scholars cum researchers. Local government in Nigeria is a product of decentralization and is established by law. As a federal state, Nigeria has th...
The term public administration consist of two words ·"public and administration" the word public is an adjective qualifying "administration" According to Nnoli, (2000:45), Public administration is the machinery as well as the integral process through which the governmen...
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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...
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Nigeria’s economy before independence and shortly afterward largely depended on agriculture. This is because a good number of its citizens are farmers. Intact about 70% of the Nigerian populace then were basically farmers a...
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Every government has as one of its main goals enhancing the wellbeing of its people. The fundamental principle of welfareism embraces all coordinated efforts made to ameliorate and raise the standard of life of the populace, hence fostering econ...
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Macroeconomic policy consists of the actions aimed at inducing appropriate changes in macroeconomic aggregates such as output, employment and the price level. The major components of macroeconomic policy include fiscal, monetary, debt manag...
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The truism that bribery and corruption are the surest way to impede the development of any society does not need argument. Although it is considered by some that bribery and corruption might spur development (Otite, 2016). In spi...
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Several groups have urged the government to revamp the country's tax system. Nigeria has a monolithic economy with a high reliance on the oil sector; this reliance renders the economy vulnerable to external manipulation and h...
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Nigeria is endowed with oil and gas in addition to other mineral resources, but Nigeria is dependent on the revenue from oil to achieve its microeconomic goals. These microeconomic goals include the provision of employment opport...
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Nigeria is still a clear example of a third-world economy in which the expanding economy has some functioning machinery, monetary and fiscal policies that attempt to maintain a balance throughout the whole economy so that growth and development,...
Abstract
UN peacekeeping has had a long and controversial involvement in the affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The current operation there constitutes one of the UN’s most challenging missions to date. MONUC’s (Mission de l’Organis...
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This study on the role of Central Bank in stabilizing a depressed economy was designed with the objectives of ascertaining if the Central Bank of Nigeria is achieving involved in the stabilization of Nigeria economy, to determine if Central bank of Nigeria has...
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A lateritic soil classified as sandy clay or (CL) and A-7-6 (5) according to Unified Soil Classification System (USCS) and AASHTO classification system respectively, was treated with up to 10% pulverized steel slag (an industrial waste pr...
INTRODUCTION
Aloe vera (Aloe barbadensis miller) is a perennial plant of
Liliacea with turgid green leaves joined at the stem in a rosette pattern, Aloe vera leaves are formed by thick epidermis (skin) covered curticle sur...
INTRODUCTION
Aloe vera (Aloe barbadensis miller) is a perennial plant of Liliacea with turgid green leaves joined at the stem in a rosette pattern, Aloe vera leaves are formed by thick epidermis (skin) covered curticle surrounding the mesophyll, which can be di...
ABSTRACT
As the topic of this research project implies (Effect of groundnut shell ash on lateritic soil properties) and which aim and objective are to shed light on Engineering Properties of Laterite Soil which is extensively used as a construction materials in Civi...
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The search for an alternative to the conventional way of treating soil for use in road work, informed laterite soil sample classified as A-7-5(11) on AASHTO soil classification system, collected from a borrow pit at Shika, along Zaria-Funtua road in Kaduna Sta...
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In an effort to improve the suitability of lateritic soil as a pavement material, the air dried samples were treated with Lime/Bitumen in stepped concentration of 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 % by dry weight of the soil. The preliminary investigation conduct...
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This research work is aimed at the development of an observer-based dynamic output feedback controller for stabilization and tracking of nonlinear systems. The developed controller is designed after the immersion-invariance and internal model principle (IMP) frameworks and targ...
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
It is an established fact that market mechanism cannot solely perform all the economic functions in a country; and as such public policy like fiscal policy is required to stabilize, correct, guide and supplement the market forces. Fiscal policyi...
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Starch modifications are a means of altering the structure and affecting the hydrogen bonding in a controllable manner to enhance and extend their application. There are different methods for modification of starch such as chemical modifications which include stabilization, cro...
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In the world today, the use of power supply in electronics equipment and gadgets has increased and it is still increasing. These power supplies are not stable as required by these electronics.
...ABSTRACT A clayey soil collected at Barkindo along Lamurde-Adamawa road, Numan Local Government area of Adamawa State, Nigeria, was stabilized with 0, 2, 4 and 6% cement which was admixed with 0, 10, 20, 30 and 40% ceramic waste dust (CWD) each. Index properties test and microstructural tests wer...
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Gully erosion is an environmental hazard that is ravaging the landscape of Ungogo area. This study was carried out to investigate the geological and geotechnical control of gully erosion in the study area. Geological field mapping was carried out to assess the causes and extent...
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This research is aimed to evaluate stability of the slope of newly constructed railway embankment along Lagos-Ibadan rail line. Soils samples were collected from KM75+500, KM90+500, KM105+500 and KM116+500 at depths ranging from 0m to 5.5m and 5.5m to 10m and taken to laborator...
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A residual clay soil was collected at Bako village along Gwagwalada-Garki road in Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria using the method of disturbed sampling. The clay was characterized and microstructural tests including X-ray Diffraction (XRD) test, Scanning Electron Microsco...
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Clayey soil collected along Gwagwalada – Garki road was characterized and classified as A-7-6 soil according to American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) soil classification system. The clay was treated with 0, 2, 4 and 6% cement which wa...
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Fiscal decentralization, which mirrors the amount of fiscal autonomy and responsibility accorded to subnational governments has been an important subject in the policy equation of many developing and developed countries. Fiscal federalism is esse...
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Water vapour is a very dynamic component of the atmosphere. It greatly influences the atmospheric stabilization mechanism. Hence, it is very difficult to measure or model using classical meteorological systems or models. Tropical atmosphere holds the largest amount of water vap...
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The study examined the impact of monetary policy in stabilizing the Nigeria economy. In the model specified inflation is the regress while cash research requirement, liquidity ratio, money supply, minimum rediscount rate, interest rate are the regressors. The government employs...
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY.
Government expenditure has served as a common means of using fiscal policy in many countries to achieve economic growth, expansion, development and transformation of the economic base. According to Musgrave (1989), He described public expenditure as tool used to...
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
It is an undisputable fact that the contribution of microfinance to entrepreneurship activities is increasing being recognized as a primary engine of economic growth. (The Economist, May 18th 1996). By combining existing resources with innovative ideas, entrepren...
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Soil erosion is the removal/movement of soil particles from one area to another; and one method of preventing these soil particles from eroding is by chemical stabilization (which involves altering the properties of the soil particles by adding cement, lime or any other cementi...
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Unemployment which is now the talk of the day has a lot of implications on the Nigeria social and economic development. Mostly as it relates to egbema local government Area which is one among the twenty-seven local government in Imo&nbs...
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There are several factors that affect the performance of banks. In this research work profitability shall be used as the performance indicator of banks. The mostly direct factors that affect prof...
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One of the pillars that support every democracy is elections. Elections seem to have become a major factor in the stabilization and democratization of emerging democracies. It forms an important pillar that places the power to go...