POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE NIGERIA POWER SECTOR

The need to restructure the existing order in the Nigerian power sector is very critical to this research. The import of the thesis there...

Measurement of Internal Control Effectiveness

Some current research studies on internal control have revealed that beyond evaluating the effectiveness of internal controls by the tr...

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF PRIVATIZATION AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA’S POWER SECTOR

It is interesting to note that the socio-economic and political dynamics of a nation state is directly or indirectly influenced by the p...

Financial Performance in Business Management

The term financial performance features in the management of every business irrespective of the industry. According to Stanley (2011), ...

Internal Controls and Banking Operations in Nigeria

The relationship between internal controls and banking operations and performance has been described by various authorities in differen...

PRIVATIZATION OF POWER HOLDING COMPANY OF NIGERIA (PHCN) AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

National development as a concept finds expression in virtually every facet of our national lives as a nation-state. The Nigerian socio-...

Reflections on the internal control frameworks

COSO (1992) is the most prominent framework covering the totality of the organization and identifies the key areas that require attenti...

STATUTORY ROLE OF REGISTRARS IN SECURITIES AND COMMODITIES MARKET IN NIGERIA

The Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990 as amended does not make express mention of Registrars but section 84(b) of CAMA 1990 as amende...

Internal control: Guidance for directors on the combined code

This report, otherwise called the “Turnbull Report” (1999), was issued with the London Stock Exchange for companies listed thereon. Nig...

Framework for internal control in banking organizations

A framework for the evaluation of the internal control systems in banking organizations was issued in 1998, and lately in 2011 by the B...

Other Internal Audit Control Framework

Sone other internal audit control framework includes   Systems Auditability and Control Report (SAC). In 1991, the Institute of Internal ...

Internal Audit Control Frameworks

            This section presents the notable and more widely applied internal control frameworks. Generally, internal control frameworks e...

Historical Developments of Internal Accounting and Auditing Control

 As a term, internal control was born out of the field of accounting and auditing, and was originally known to be some forms of account...

The Nigeria Banking Industry

            A bank is a financial intermediary that accepts fund deposits for the primary purpose of channeling those funds into lendin...

Implications for Social Change With the Banking Sector

            The importance of efficient banks to the economic development of countries has also been well explored and confirmed in r...

Reduction of Gaps in Banking Performance in Nigeria

Despite the importance of the banking industry to the continuing economic development of Nigeria, there remains a dearth of timely and re...

Theoretical Framework of internal control in relation to organizational performance in the banking sector

            Maijoor (2000) identified two theoretical frameworks for the study of internal control in relation to organizational perf...

Background of the Problem of Nigeria Banking Industry

            Over the past 3 decades, corruption has plagued the Nigerian banking industry leading to the collapse of many banks parti...

Hydrocarbon oil and gas deposits

Exploration Petroleum exploration in Nigeria began as far back as 1908. In 1956 the first commercial oil discovery was made at Oloibiri i...

Aerial extent of the Nigerian Continental Shelf

The offshore area bordering the Nigerian coast consists of a narrow shelf between 15km offshore Lagos to about 75km off the shore of the Nig...

Other postulated modes of formation of continental shelf

Some oceanographers holds quite a different view regarding the origin of continental shelf. In their opinion, a continental shelf is created...

GEOLOGY OF THE NIGERIAN CONTINENTAL SHELF

          Nigeria, the largest country in Africa with a total area of 923,769sq km (land 910,768 and water 13,000sq km) is located between 4...

The relationship between the shelf and the marine environment

The shelf usually ends at a point of increasing slope (called the shelf break). The sea floor below the break is the continental slope. Be...

Physiography of the Continental Shelf

The continental shelf is the edge of a continent that lies under the ocean and it extends from the coastline of a continent to a drop-off ...

Possible origin of the continental shelf

There is divergence of opinion regarding the origin of the continental shelf. However, it is undoubtedly true that different processes hav...

POTENTIAL OF AGBAMI OILFIELD NIGERIA

Introduction Recently, oil exploration activities have shifted to the deep water offshore of the Niger Delta. Offshore activities have int...

ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF THE NIGERIAN CONTINENTAL SHELF

A continental shelf extends from the coastline of a continent to a drop-off point called the shelf break. From the break, the shelf descends...

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY OPTION

One very important phenomena in the Nigerian power reform policies is the inadequacies and of course, the inability of government to ex...

NIGERIA’S POWER SECTOR REFORM

The power sector is very capital intensive. It is obvious that Government with its many responsibilities in other sectors of the economy,...

Attempts to rehabilitate the supply of electricity in Nigeria

The Federal Government has sunk huge sums of money into the rehabilitation of the Nation’s electricity plants. Over N16.9 billion Naira ...

CHALLENGES IN THE GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF POWER SUPPLY IN NIGERIA

Obviously however, some of the major challenges in the generation and distribution of power supply in Nigeria are enumerated as follows:...

CHALLENGES OF POWER GENERATION AND NIGERIA’S SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Vandalisation of PHCN equipment and installations for re-circulation accounts for at least 30% of blackout experienced in Nigeria today. ...