Free capital flows, stable foreign exchange rate and independent control of money supply by the Central Bank are necessary for a robust economy. However, a combination of any two of these policies is possible at a time and ...
Stock market is a major source of finance for investors and firms. However, its ability to perform
this role may be hindered by risk from Oil Price Dynamics (OPD) which makes stock returns
uncertain. This risk is ...
Deficit financing (DF) is the excess of government expenditure over its revenue. The DF occasioned by low domestic savings and low capital formation (CF), have characterised the Nigerian economy since the 1970s with attendant ...
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries suffer severe electricity crisis despite over two decades of on-going Electricity Market Liberalisation (EML). Electricity access has been consistently low, averaging 26.0%, 31.0% and ...
Corporate Ownership (CO) and Capital Structure (CS) are used to mitigate agency cost and
improve Firm Performance (FP). Some listed firms in Nigeria have high agency cost due
to weak nature of corporate monitoring. ...
Tobacco consumption has been associated with chronic health conditions and deterioration in household welfare. Consequently, the efforts at mitigating its impact is global. Previous national and sub-population epidemiologic ...
Progressive health care financing, which occurs when the non-poor pay more for health care than the poor, becomes regressive by Horizontal Inequity (HI) and Reranking (RR). The HI implies that individuals with similar ...
The Shadow Economy (SE) includes economic activities operating outside relevant
government regulations. These activities are expected to wane as the economy grows, but,
continue to exist. Thus, the effects of SE on ...
School-based Oral Health Promotion (SbOHPm) programmes largely depend on dentists as resource persons. However, dentists are relatively few in Nigeria, making coverage for SbOHPm difficult. This has contributed to high ...
Waterfalls offer scenic attractions which are exploited in most instances as tourist destinations to diversify livelihood activities. However, the extent to which waterfalls as tourist destinations contributes to the ...
Although the reinvention and commodification of festivals have implications on the culture and economy of host regions, not much attention has been paid to its promotion in Nigeria. This study was designed to examine the ...
Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Most antihypertensive drugs have been reported to effectively reduce blood pressure (BP), but they do not ameliorate end-organ damage associated with ...
The External Granular Layer (EGL) of the cerebellar cortex is a region of proliferative cells which migrate to their last position in the internal granular cell layer of the cerebellum. Delay in the transit of cells from ...
Career women constitute a group of upwardly mobile individuals contributing to societal development in Nigeria. Nollywood films have variously portrayed career women on different light. However, the perception of Nigerian ...
Nollywood films are marked by characterology that portrays the man and woman either negatively or positively. Existing studies on the representation of the woman have largely been from the feminist and womanist perspective ...
Production management is an aspect of Theatre Mmanagement (TM) dealing with the procedures and processes beginning from concept development to the realisation of a production. Extant studies in Theatre Management have ...
Abánibímọ, the Yoruba practice of surrogacy, is an alternative procreative method informed by family exigencies in Yoruba culture. Previous studies, which are largely Western, have focused mainly on the legality of ...
The verb phrase (VP) layer is the domain of clausal event and the argument structure of the verb.
Extant works on Urhobo, an Edoid language, have listed lexical and phrasal categories and types
of sentences in the ...
Corrupt political leadership and other issues related to misgovernance are some of the motifs in both pre-independence and post-independence Yorùbá novels. Existing studies on the novels have focused more on political ...
The interaction between rural and urban settlements, people and enterprises are major components of livelihoods and production systems in Africa Although, historical studies have been carried out on urban-rural interface ...