ABSTRACT The study investigated the roles of sex and parent’s level of education on the development of children’s self-esteem among secondary school students in Keffi Local Government Area, Nasarawa State. The researcher adopted simple random sampling technique to draw the sample population of fifty (50) students of Kofar Hausa Secondary School Keffi. Two research hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The instrument utilized for the study consisted of the Rosenberg Self-esteem Sc...
In the contemporary Nigerian society, the traditional family values have been abandoned which was mainly influenced by the western ideology. As a result, the stability that characterized the traditional family system has withered away exposing the family to the susceptibility of breaking down. The consequence of these changes in family status has affected the members of the family especially the children. Hence, The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of divorce on childr...
Abstract The paper examines the linkages between gender of household heads, education and household poverty in South East region of Nigeria between 2001 and 2017. Data analyzed were obtained from four national consumer expenditure surveys conducted in Nigeria in 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2017 by the Federal Office of Statistics. Adjustments were made for price differentials over time and across regions of the country. However, only aggregated data for households were available. Per capita exp...
The study investigates the influence of International Financial Reporting Standards adoption, using accounting performance measure, to determine the CEO pay in listed banks in Nigeria. The audited annual financial statements of listed banks in Nigeria covering the period of 2009–2015 are analyzed. Fixed effect model, viz panel data analysis is adopted to establish the findings. The findings indicate that adoption of IFRS in Nigeria results in an inverse relationship with accounting performa...
This paper extends the prior studies on corporate performance by empirically exploring the impact of overall corporate governance structure on firm performance. To unveil the objective of this study, firstly corporate governance index is built using Principal Component Analysis with 6 (six) identified corporate governance mechanisms from prior studies and then examines its effect on firms’ performance. This study draws a sample of twenty-four (24) financial companies from the listed financi...
We examine the effect of corruption perception and institutional quality on the performance of firms based on the extracted data for 135 listed companies in Nigeria with timeframe 2013–2017. We first use the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index for the baseline analysis, which evaluates the public officials and politicians’ corruption practices. To capture institutional quality, which depicts the level of law enforcement to curb corruptive practices of the public off...
This study investigates the influence of CFO roles on the implementation of ERM initiatives in a sample of Nigerian financial institutions (between 2013-2017). We develop three distinct factors representing the CFO roles namely CFO power, CFO experience and CFO knowledge using principal component factoring. Like prior work, we measure ERM components simultaneously to capture the extent of sophisticated ERM system. Our findings pose that the CFO involvement in ERM implementation remains mi...
This data article is related to the research article “Chief Financial Officer Roles and Enterprise Risk Management: An Empirical Based Study” Ojeka et al. (2019). The study explores the impact of CFO roles on the execution of ERM strategies sampled with Nigerian financial institutions for the period of 2013-2017. The study develops three distinct indexes representing the CFO roles namely CFO power, CFO experience and CFO knowledge via principal component factoring. The study also measures...
ABSTRACT The desire of every government is to ensure effective service delivery to its citizens, as it is vital in uplifting the living standard of the mass population. The civil service as a machinery of government is saddled with the responsibility of government policies and programmes implementation. In an attempt to reform government service delivery to the citizens, many policies have been put in place by previous regimes and administrations. Despite these efforts, Nigerian government h...
ABSTRACT This study examined family background and involvement in street violence among youths in shomolu local government Lagos state. It investigates specific objectives such as family size, family type, parent’s educational status, parent’s occupational status and how they influence involvement in street violence among youths. The study further examined existing literature of various scholars; three theories were applied and used to explain the prevalence of street violence. The theor...
ABSTRACT Domestic Violence against children is a major threat to global development as well as the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Domestic Violence is found in schools, institutions (such as orphanages and other residential care), on the streets, in the workplace and in prisons. Children experience domestic violence in their homes, schools and from other children.This study examined social dete...
ABSTRACTThis study focuses on the impact of Electronic banking on the payment system in Nigeria.The main objective of this work is to identify how electronic banking has impacted orimproved the payment system in Nigeria and its impact on customer satisfaction. In other toachieve this, primary data which exist inform of questionnaire and oral interviews andsecondary data inform of journals, articles and books were used. Three hypotheses wereformulated and an...
This research looks to examine the impact of the internal displaced persons in the northeast. This research is motivated by the attention that has been given to the internally displaced persons by international community and the resources flowing into the region to address the plight of the IDPs. The research used Displaced Aggression as theoretical framework. The theory explains how groups and individuals attack soft targets due to the unavailability of the provocateur. The IDPs were vulnera...
A novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China. This is a new coronavirus that has not been previously identified in humans. Corona virus disease, is an infectious disease that is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus. The COVID-19 outbreak has since spread to about 196 countries and territories in every continent. As the effects of Covid -19 are felt around the world the Real estate is being impacted in many different ways, depending on the region and...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Who We Are Cake World Venturesis a business based mainly on cake making and delivery within the city of Abuja; serving both student and professional population. Created in 2013, the business began operation in 2014 as a catering kitchen, specializing in wedding cakes; cup cakes, birthday cakes, indies cakes, breakfast and lunch packages. The business now looks to introduce a coffee shop which also offers ice cream and yogurt. Table of Contents Executive Summary.............