INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The idea of self-service in retail banking developed through independent and simultaneous effort in Japan, Sweden, the United States and the United Kingdom. In the USA, Luther George Sunsjan has been wrongly credited with developin...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Newspapers, which constitute the vocal and vibrant press, have consistently championed the fight again...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: The banking system in Nigeria has undergone radical changes during the  35 years since independence . Banking developed from an industry which in 1960. was dominated by a small number of foreign owned banks into, one in which public sector ownership...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: In a country with mixed economy like Nigeria, the government and the individual are managing the economy together. This means that people, groups and the three levels of government are free to start businesses. The three lowest levels of...

Background to the Study: The relevance of banks in the economy of any nation cannot be overemphasized. They are the cornerstones of the economy of a country. Banks play the important role of promoting economic growth and development through the&nbs...

Background of the study: The structure of the Nigerian economy is typical of an underdeveloped country. Over half of the gross domestic product (GDP) is accounted for by the primary sector with agriculture continuing to play an important role. The oil and gas sector, in particula...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: The importance of the financial sector of an economy, which comprises banks and non­bank financial intermediaries, the regulatory framework and the ever increasing financial products, in stimulating economic growth is widely recognized in the lit...

Background of the Study: Journalism in Nigeria has continued to grow immensely in line with global trends despite strong infrastructural challenges. Communicating with a mass audience is not totally strange in Nigeria. Thus, mass media have been important tools in communicat...

ABSTRACT: The main focus of this study was to a critically investigate women entrepreneurs and the factors affecting their performance in Nigeria using women entrepreneurs in Edo State as a case study. The objective of the study seeks to find out the fa...

ABSTRACT: The issues of media ownership and control can never be overemphasized due to the dwindling situations surrounding media practice in Nigeria. The media is said to take the coloration of where the practice is being carried out i.e the way the media operates in Nigeria can...

Statement of the problem: Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have long been recognized by the World Bank and other multilateral agencies as crucial to these institutions' economic growth in their more focused operations in developing nations. Small firms com...

ABSTRACT: This study examined the adaptation strategies of arable crop farmers to climate variability. The study used multistage sampling technique and primary data were collected from 360 food crop farmers (i.e. 180 respondents were randomly selected from each selected state fro...

ABSTRACT: Lack of in-depth knowledge of whole life costing implication in building design cost management has over the years fueled the increasing bias towards the quantity surveyors estimate. Whole life costing constitutes cost management tool that enhances bett...

Background of the study: The market environment in which ports operate has undergone tremendous transformation in recent years, particularly as a result of the growth of vertical and horizontal integration within the international marine transport chain. This development has been...

Background to the study: Taxes are the major contributor to government’s revenue and become an important issue in every country; therefore taxes are a crucial element in a firm. In maximizing shareholders’ wealth, company tries to minimize its tax burden. Shareholders...

INTRODUCTION: There are many different ways to define a system, but one method that may be understood literally in the context of computers is as a collection of the many pieces of hardware and software that make up a computer. According to Byron (2021), a system...

Background of the study: Transforming enormous ideas into economic opportunities is the decisive issue of entrepreneurship. History shows that economic progress has been significantly advanced by pragmatic people who are entrepreneurial and innovative, able to exploit opportuniti...

Introduction

The establishment of additional states in Nigeria in 1976 resulted in the emergence of new metropolitan centres, whose fast expansion raised the need to finance the supply of public amenities. Real estate taxation is one of...

Background of the study: In this era of digital technology and globalization of communication, the media industries have crucial role to play in creating awareness and giving first class information to the populace on issues emanating from the administrations and governance of th...

Background Information: Mass media messages are often referred to those directed at a large group of person by means of an electronic medium involving the dissemination of information, knowledge and entertainment to a large diverse, sometimes homogenous but mostl...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: The impact of auditing in any organization is of vital importance that their growth and retardation depend on it. According to Nwabueze (2020) an audit is an independent examination of and expression of opinion of the financial statement...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: The role of television as a mass medium in the democratization process is understood in the context of the public sphere, which is defined by Habermas stated  in 2012 as "organs of information and political debates such as newsp...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: The role of the broadcasters and the broadcast media...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Land use, land valuation, is among the oldest questions in economic theory, (Shavell, 2004). Land is an essential input (factor of production) for agriculture, and agriculture is by far the most important economic activity in preindustrial societies. With...

Background Of The Study: In today’s global commerce, seaports or maritime transport play an important role of being many nations’ major gateway for international trade and are a good instrument for measuring the economic health of a nation (Ogunsiji &...

Background Of The Study: Co-operative societies in Nigeria are believed to have started between the period of the first and second world wars and more especially in the (Beer 1976). The operation of co-operative societies was first regulated by the coming into be...

ABSTRACT: Architectural practice has been in existence in Nigeria for more than fifty years and the earliest introduction of computers by firms for operations began in the early 1980s. Information and communication technology (ICT) usage is inevitable in all fields of endeavours and for professio...

ABSTRACT: This project work is mainly based on the theoretical and practical approach of the challenges confronting privately owned media stations in a democratic dispensation in Nigeria. In this work, the researcher tried to reevaluate two types of the...

ABSTRACT: An international wave of mergers and acquisitions has swept the banking industry as boundaries between financial sectors and products have blurred dramatically. There is therefore the need for countries to have sound resilient banking systems with good corporate governa...

INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: The problem of developing the rural area has received the attention of many experts and researchers as well as the government.  This is because it constitutes a serious bottleneck to the socio-economic development of the...

Background of the study: Truth is either nailed to a bleeding cross, or it dons a variegated cloak. That is the nexus between the ‘brown envelope’ syndrome and the cancer of corruption. Siyan Oyeweso (2009). Journalism practice wields such enormous powers and cal...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Culture entails the way of life of people culture is the total way of life of a people, culture can also be defined as the identity through  which a particular set of people are identified.

Every society, no matter how...

ABSTRACT: The enormous and challenging responsibilities of managing incorporated companies are vested on directors by the Companies and Allied Matters Laws of the Federation, 2004. Consequently I am attracted into researching about these human agents, trustees and organs of...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: The mass media are seen as advances in science and technology in a culture, as well as catalysts for social and economic transformation in that society (Melkote, 1991). The mass media's actions are assumed to mobilize human and materi...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: This work is designed to study how rural dwellers utilize radio in comparison with television message to effect social change. Other communication channels, like the inter personal communication, traditional communication or what Frank Ugboajab calle...

BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY: The term trade union has a variety of meanings depending on the perception of workers and the definition imposed by the legal frameworks in many countries. Some workers organizations call themselves staff or professional associations...

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY: The Nigerian National Petroleum corporation and the petroleum ministry appear desperate to maintain their hold on the downstr...

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

Background of the study: The strategy of the pastoralist system underwent a very substantial shift when ranching was introduced. It transforms the nomadic aspect of pastoralism, which historically does...

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

Background to the study: Oil, a very versatile and flexible, non-reproductive, depleting, natural (hydrocarbon) is a fundamental input into modern economic activity, providing about 50% of the total energy demand in the world. (Anyanwu J.C. et al,...

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION