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Item Management of Educational Organization: The Effectiveness of Soft Skill on Rejuvenating Education Curriculum(2019-02-02) Ogedengbe Frank AlabaBusiness education is a course that provides skills for individual to gain employment in government department of business community. To give a relevant training in business education, soft skills must be built into the curriculum of business education on which it intends to give instruction. It is seen that the present business education programmer curriculum is inadequate with regard to soft skills for job creation, employability and contribute to the growth and development of the nation. The paper sought to examine the deep-rooted issue in business education curriculum and soft skills. It further highlighted the importance of soft skills and how soft skills can be built into curriculum of business education to equip recipients with business skills, habits, attitudes, knowledge and concepts for personal use and for entry into the business community as employees or employers of labor. The paper adopted a methodology of documentary analysis and a review of the relevant literature. The study found that business education should not be divorced from soft skills to make recipients meaningfully exist with others as productive and beneficial members of the society. To re-establish evincing strength and healthy business education curriculum, the paper recommended that government should come up with a new policy of governance of tertiary academic institutions to accommodate soft skills in the curriculum of business education for job creation and employability.Item Effects of the Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Nigeria: Error Correction Mechanism(OMICS International, 2018-02-02) Ebire Kolawole; Lucky Otsoge Onmonya; V Ekemini InimMost nations all over the world institutes policies to attract more Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows. Identifying the key determinants of FDI inflows is therefore seen as an important task for policy makers. This study therefore, investigates the major determinants of FDI in Nigeria spanning from 1986-2017. Secondary source of data were used for the study which were first subjected to stationarity test using Augmented Dickey Fuller and Phillips Perron test. Findings showed that all variables were found to be integrated into the order of one. Cointegration analysis showed that there exist a long run relationship among the variables. Based on these findings, Error Correction Mechanism was used in testing the hypotheses. The result showed that exchange rate, GDP, first lag of GDP, military expenditure, first lag of military expenditure, political stability and financial development are the major determinants of FDI inflows to Nigeria. The study therefore recommends among others that, government at all levels should tackle the menace of insecurity ravaging the economy and portraying the country as insecure thereby creating a secured environment for FDI inflows. Democratic regimes should be sustained and investment policies should be instituted or improved on, in order to create a friendly environment to attract more FDI inflows.Item Audit Committee Financial Expertise: Antidote for Financial Reporting Quality in Nigeria?(MCSER Publishing, Rome-Italy, 2015-02-02) Ojeka Stephen; Francis Odianonsen Iyoha; Taiwo AsaoluAudit committee financial expertise is vital to the quality of financial reporting. This study empirically investigates the impact of audit committee financial expertise on the quality of financial reporting. The financial reporting quality was measured by reliability (total accrual quality) and relevance (audit report lag). Fifteen money deposit banks were selected and data was collected for the period (2003-2012). Analyses were carried out using Correlation, Ordinary Least Square and Panel Lest Square. The study found, after controlling for firm size, audit type, age of firm, audit committee meeting and audit committee size, that, audit committee financial expertise showed a negative coefficient for total accrual quality and audit report lag. This means financial expertise has a positive significant impact on financial reporting quality in Nigeria. The study, therefore, recommends that more attention should be given to the financial expertise of directors being recommended to the audit committee.Item Factors That Affect Tax Compliance among Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in North Central Nigeria(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2012-02-02) Ojochogwu Winnie Atawodi; Ojeka StephenTax is an important stream of revenue for government’s development projects. However, tax compliance among SMEs is poor. Therefore, this study was conducted using SMEs in Zaria, North-Central Nigeria to evaluate and rank the factors that encourage non-compliance with tax obligation by SMEs. It was found that high tax rates and complex filing procedures are the most crucial factors causing non-compliance of SMEs. Other factors like multiple taxation and lack of proper enlightenment affect tax compliance among the SMEs surveyed only to a lesser extent. Therefore, it is recommended that SMEs should be levied lower percentage of taxes to allow enough funds for business development and better chances of survival in a competitive market. The government should also consider increasing tax incentives such as exemptions and tax holidays as these will not only encourage voluntary compliance but also attract investors who are potential viable tax payers in the future.Item Relationship between Tax Policy, Growth of SMEs and the Nigerian Economy(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2012-02-02) Ojochogwu Winnie Atawodi; Ojeka StephenThis research work tries to establish if any relationship exists between the growth of SMEs and the tax policy environment within which they operate. Using business sustenance and expansion as indices of growth, it analyzes responses obtained questionnaires distributed to SMEs in Zaria, North Central Nigeria. Sampling for the survey was done using the non-probability sampling method specifically by judgmental sampling. The hypothesis was tested using Spearman’s Rank Correlation. Although there is a general perception that that tax is an important source of fund for development of the economy and provision of social services, the study revealed a significant negative relationship between taxes and the business’ ability to sustain itself and to expand. In order to obtain a vibrant and flourishing SME sector, the tax policy needs to be appropriate such that it will not be an encumbrance to the growth of small and medium enterprises.Item An Empirical Investigation into the relationship between Capital Structure and Firm`s Market Value in Nigeria(Journal of Accounting, Finance and Development, 2019-02-02) Okoye, Peter Anija; Ayogu SundayFollowing the Modigliani and Miller theory (1963), there have been considerable debates on the nature of relationship that exists between a company`s capital structure and its market value. This study seeks to empirically investigate the relationship between corporate capital structure and a firm`s market value in Nigeria.. Dataset from selected companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange for the period of 2013- 2017 were used for analysis. Results from the analysis show a positively significant relationship between a firm`s capital structure and its market value.. Hence, the study recommends that listed companies in Nigeria should optimize their capital structure in order to maximize their market value for the benefit of all the stakeholders.Item Factors affecting budget implementation for successful delivery of primary health care building facilities within Nigerian health sector(Taylor & Francis, 2019-02-02) Nasamu Gambo; Ibrahim Ibrahim Inuwa; Nuruddeen Usman; Ilias Said; U. S. ShuaibuABSTRACT Several studies have attributed high maternal mortality and morbidity rates in rural areas of developing countries including Nigeria to poor budget performance in the provision of primary health care (PHC) facilities. Yet, very little studies focused on the effects of factors affecting budget implementation for the successful delivery of PHC building facilities in the rural areas of Nigeria. Thus, this study assesses the factors affecting budget implementation for successful delivery of PHC building facilities in northern Nigeria. A sample of 317 respondents from a population of 1777 project managers was administered questionnaires through stratified propor tionate random sampling technique. The survey attains 87% valid response rate. Data obtained were analyzed using warp5 PLS-SEM software. The results indicated low effects of factors affect ing budget implementation on the successful delivery of PHC building facilities in northern Nigeria. Similarly, linear relationships exist between budget implementation factors and success ful delivery of PHC building facilities. Moreover, the study provided criteria for assessing the effects of budget implementation factors affecting successful delivery of PHC building facilities in northern Nigeria and other developing countries that are facing similar problems. The study solicited for the improvement on the budget implementation of PHC sector through adequate budget and monitoring bases for mitigating maternal mortality and morbidity rates in the rural areas of developing countries through successful delivery of PHC building facilities.Item Serving The Poor Through Micro Insurance(Journal of Business Paradigms, 2019-02-02) Jaafar Umar; Umaru Zubairu; Yakubu Mustapha; maitala Faiza; Bilkisu Abubakar; Muhammad DokochiMicro insurance is an approach to serve low-income earners who are quite vulnerable to various risks in the economy. As a result, this paper aimed to systematically review extant micro insurance research and make suggestions for further research based on identified gaps. The study adopted the Systematic Quantitative Assessment Techniques (SQAT) in identifying and analyzing 36 English peer-reviewed journal articles on micro insurance from nine high quality academic databases: Emerald, Elsevier, Springer, Sage, Taylor and Francis, Cambridge, Oxford, MIT and Wiley. The study revealed that most of the articles focused on micro health insurance as well as discussing the general prospects of micro insurance. Most of the articles were empirical in nature, with majority of the studies adopting no theoretical underpinning; the few articles that had theoretical foundations utilized the expected utility theory and prospects theory. A large number of the reviewed studies were conducted in Asia and Africa, whilst none were conducted in Australasia and South America, with surveys and interviews being the most prominent research methods. The significant contribution of this study is that it is a new addition to the micro insurance field, offering insights as to the context of extant micro insurance scholarship, as well as identifying research gaps for future researchers to explore.Item The Contribution Of Foreign Aid To The Reduction Of Poverty In Developing Nations?(International Journal of Social Sciences, 2019-02-02) Nkoyo Ekere; Maitala FaizaPurpose: This paper seeks to examine the impact of foreign aid in poverty reduction in developing nations. It reviews the positive and negative impacts of aid in lessening poverty in evolving countries and the critical success factors that could serve as a blueprint for developing nations to adopt. Methodology/Approach: The paper employs a critical review of extant scholarship, where empirical evidences on the positive and negative effect of foreign aid carried out from various countries were provided to support the claims of the studies. Findings: The findings give insight into the viability of aid and identified some key critical success factors which comprised of good governance, recipient domestic policies, stringent conditionality of aid and interest of donor countries. Research Implication: This paper provides a blueprint for critical success factors necessary for aid to be an effective tool for lessening poverty in the growing nations. Originality/Value: This paper contributes to the existing article on the efficacy of aid in poverty reduction. It examines the positive and negative impacts of aid and identifies the critical success factors and propose these must be in place to enable growing countries reap the benefits of aid.Item Investigating the Impact of Entrepreneurial Infrastructure Deficit on Firm Growth(International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Business Development, 2019-02-02) Usman Baba Isah; Zubairu Umaru Mustapha; Mohammed Dokochi; Jaafar Umar; Maitala FaizaPurpose: This study therefore aims to investigate the impact of EI deficit on firm growth, focusing on the growth of SMEs in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach: the methods of data collection adopted by the studies (interview, questionnaire and observation Findings: Empirical findings revealed that the availability of physical infrastructure (constant water supply and good road infrastructure) and the non-physical infrastructure (electricity, government policies/programmes, access to financial support services, incubation centers/platforms, business clusters and entrepreneurship training) improves productivity, profitability, sales, number of customers and consistent growth rate of SMEs. Research limitations/implications: This was done through a critical review of extant literature (peer reviewed journal articles) on EI which were obtained from reputable data bases and broken down into two basic components of infrastructure (physical and non-physical infrastructure). Practical implications: The study recommends that government should use fiscal policies to address the economic challenges of SMEs and also invest in the provision of EI facilities to facilitate the growth and development of SMEs in Nigeria