The Health Insurance Scheme (HIS), a means of financing medical care among employees globally, is designed to subsidise medical costs. In Nigeria, HIS is inadequately implemented and this affects access to healthcare ...

Household movement in cities has attracted research interest especially in developed countries. Interest in residential mobility has focused on housing affordability, increased externalities, dissatisfaction with present ...

Breast cancer (BC) is an abnormal growth from the breast tissue, and is a major cause of cancer-related death among women in Sub-Saharan Africa and Nigeria in particular. It affects women’s wellbeing, feminity, maternal-role ...

Regimented treatment of People with Schizophrenia (PwS) in hospitals stigmatises and hinders their full recovery and makes their reintegration into the society difficult. Previous studies have focused mainly on the bio-medical ...

Corruption constitutes one of the major obstacles to economic growth. It misdirects capital expenditure, shortens factor productivity efficiency and distorts consumers' tastes for goods and services. In Nigeria, the average ...

Fiscal Discipline (FD) is the ability of government to efficiently maintain smooth and long-term financial operations in relation to total revenue, financial balance, public debt and total spending. The growing fiscal ...

Economic Community of West African States‘ (ECOWAS) total trade has reflected deficit in the last two decades. It was $1.42 billion in 1990, increased to $3.32 billion in 2000 and $6.24 billion in 2009. This trade imbalance ...

The causality between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and growth has remained a subject of debate. The FDI flows and growth have been unstable in Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Southern African ...

Bank consolidation was one prominent aspect of the 2004/2005 banking sector reforms in Nigeria. It led to 1150% increase in the minimum capital base of the Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) from N2 billion in 2004 to N25 billion ...

Exchange rate volatility (the risk associated with unexpected movements in exchange rate) adversely affects economic activities, both at the micro and macro levels, because it increases uncertainty. Between 1990 and 2012, ...