Abstract The main objective of the study is to ‘Investigate the effects of microfinance products on women empowerment by focusing on Dagoretti north constituency as a case study. Furthermore, the study aimed to investigate the determinants of access of microfinance products in women, assess the contribution of microfinance products in women empowerment, to examine challenges facing microfinance products and lastly to find out measures put in place to address challenges facing microfinance p...
In the violent and shameless turnout, millions of Nigerians have been denied their right to choose their political leaders. The struggle for democratic offices by politicians is often violently manipulated on the street by a gang of thugs, recruited by same politicians, trained and to help them capture power. Political violence has been a bone of contention from the inception of Nigeria as a Nation-State. The impact of political violence cannot be over emphasized as its effects have grossly a...
The effect of nutrition education programme on food related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and practices of literate women in Pankshin community was investigated using quasi-experimental design. The non-randomized control group, pretest-posttest quasiexperimental design was employed for the study. The population for the study comprised 1,807 literate women in Pankshin community. One hundred and sixty-six literate women in Pankshin community constituted the sample for the study. The instruments...
The mismanagement of notable government businesses across the nation has led to the abandonment of viable public projects and the attendant indiscriminate lay-off of staff in the public sector have generated the ever-increasing attention in academic, private and public sectors. As a result of the increase in the level of decadence in the government sector, a gamut of dissenting voices have been raised necessitating the need to examine the relationship that exist between forensic accounting an...
This study examines the effect of tax administration and revenue on economic growth of Nigeria. To achieve the objective of this paper, data was collected from primary and secondary sources. The secondary sources were from scholarly books and journals while the primary source involved a well structured questionnaire of three sections of sixty five items with an average reliability of 0.78. The data collected from the questionnaire and secondary data were analyzed using relevant regression ana...
ABSTRACT: This study investigates the value relevance of accounting data in the Nigerian Stock Market. The primary objective of the study is to determine if there is a relationship between accounting numbers and share prices in the Nigeria Stock Market. The value relevance of accounting data was measured by the correlation coefficient between stock prices and some accounting numbers. In an attempt to estimate the model, linear regression was used. While there has been a number of studies on t...
Abstract High market uncertainty makes it difficult for an entrepreneur to assess the status of the market for a business opportunity. Data gathering and analysis techniques and technology are becoming a significant source of uncertainty management for many entrepreneurial endeavours. This is sometimes referred to as "data-driven entrepreneurship." We examine a datadriven dynamic method to overcoming market uncertainty in business opportunity appraisals. We focus o...
Abstract Product life cycle management is the succession of strategies used by management and as a product goes through its product life cycle. The conditions in which a product is sold changes over time and must be managed as it moves through its succession of stages. It is claimed that every product has a life period, it is launched, it grows, and at some point, may die. A fair comment is that - at least in the short term - not all products or services die. Jeans may die, but clothes proba...
Abstract Stress is an inevitable reality of life. But stress isn’t always a bad thing. It’s a natural, physical response that can generate our fight- or-flight response. Stress can increase our awareness in difficult or treacherous situations, allowing us to act hastily in the moment. Without it, humans wouldn’t have survived this long. But if stress is invariable over time, it can be unfavourable to health. So, stress prevention and management ...
Abstract Sentiment analysis is one of the key challenges for mining online user generated content. In this work, we focus on customer reviews which are an important form of opinionated content. The goal is to identify each sentence’s semantic orientation (e.g. positive or negative) of a review. Traditional sentiment classification methods often involve substantial human efforts, e.g. lexicon construction, feature engineering. In recent years, d...
Abstract Online reviews have become an important source of instruction for users before manufacture an informed procure decision. Early reviews of a product tend to have a high effect on the ensuing product sales. In this paper, we take the initiative to study the behavior characteristics of early reviewers through their posted reviews on two real-world large e-commerce platforms, i.e., Amazon and Yelp. In s...
PURPOSE: The paper and packaging company that provided the data for this research has a long history of sales expertise. This expertise is captured predominantly in the intuition of sales representatives, many of whom have worked in the industry for 20 years or more AIM: Intuition is not easy to record and disseminate across an entire sales force, however, and thus one of the company’s most valuable resources is inaccessible to the broader organiza...
ABSTRACT: The purpose of the research paper is to study the promotional activities of Airtel in the Indian telecom market. Promotional activities not only help in enhancing the customer base but also pave the way to better corporate image. A company needs better promotional tools in order to survive and sustain the turbulent Indian market and the prevailing scenario. Bharti Airtel Limited or commonly known as Airtel is one of India’s most popular providers of...
ABSTRACT The economic collapse and civil war that ensued in Somalia after President Siad Barre gave rise to piracy, armed robbery and dumping of toxic wastes in and around the Gulf of Aden. The attendant humanitarian crisis attracted the intervention of the international community. This study evaluated armed intervention and the challenges of maritime security in the Gulf of Aden between 2008 and 2011. The objectives were to: (i) determine whether the application of the principle of political...
ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of oil price shocks on oil sector stock prices in Nigeria using a high frequency data between January 2000 to December 2010. The empirical results indicates that no significant effect of oil price is found on oil sector stock prices but there are significant effects of such macroeconomic variables as interest rate, exchange rate and real gross domestic product on oil sector stock prices in Nigeria. Therefore the volatility in oil price does not nece...