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Improving the Performance of Solar PV Installation in Rural Locations in Nigeria: A Case Study
(2015-04-23)
This is a conference presentation on the problems of PV powered borehole pumping systems in Nigeria. Many have been installed but fallen into disrepair due to lack of maintenance, lack of money and poor organisation. The ...
The dark side of transparency: Problematising the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative as a Public Sector Transparency, Accountability and Anti-Corruption Initiative
(Elsevier, 2018-10-16)
This study explores the dark side of transparency by problematizing the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) as a transparency, accountability and anti-corruption initiative in Nigeria. It does ...
Living with Sickle Cell Disease and Depression in Lagos, Nigeria: A Mixed Methods Study
(Elsevier, 2016-05-20)
Sickle cell disorders (SCD) and depression are both chronic illnesses of global significance. Past research on SCD and depression struggles to make sense of statistical associations, essentializes depression within the ...
The Impact of Control Fraud on the Banking System: Evidence from a developing Country
(Global Research Institute for Business Academics, 2017-07-30)
Recent global financial crisis have awakened the need to regulate corporate governance across the world. The fall of multi-national companies like Enron in the USA and Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in ...
The Impact of Corporate Governance on the Nigerian Banking Sector
(World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 2017)
Recent global corporate failures have called for
increase in the need to regulate corporate governance across the
world. In Nigeria, the impact of corporate governance regulation in
the banking sector has reached epidemic ...
Bank Lending Channel and Monetary Policy in Nigeria
(Research in International Business and Finance, 2017-07-15)
We find that the Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) policy of consolidation and restructuring from
2002 to 2008 strengthened the bank lending channel (BLC). We use the Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) two step estimator ...
Venturing under fire: Entrepreneurship education, venture creation, and poverty reduction in conflict-ridden Maiduguri, Nigeria
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018)
Purpose:
The purpose of this paper is to examine how a new entrepreneurship education (EE) intervention offered at conflict-ridden Maiduguri, Nigeria, is having transformative impacts through new venture creation and ...
A new framework for understanding and resolving farmers-herdsmen conflict in Nigeria
(2017-09)
Herdsmen-farmers' relations have had a big impact on West African history, leading to revolutionary changes in the 19th-century when some old regimes were upended. In the subsequent two centuries specifically in Northern ...
Universal basic education in Nigeria: can religious actors make a difference?
(Development Studies Association, 2016-09)
Following a period of sustained progress between the 1950s and 1970s, when the regional and federal governments in Nigeria implemented highly successful policies of free qualitative education, the education sector went on ...
Impact of social capital on preparedness and response to Boko Haram insurgency in Northeast Nigeria
(International Humanitarian Studies Association, 2016-03)
Boko Haram insurgency has precipitated humanitarian tragedy on a scale comparable to the Nigerian civil war (1967-1970) and arguably the worst of any man made or natural disaster in Nigeria's history. The Internal Displacement ...
