This study seeks to identify the determinants of auditors' independence in public enterprises and determine the policy implications of lack of auditors' independence in the public sector. The data for the research was primary and collected via questionnaire from the Nigerian Ports Authority...

This paper examines the dimensions of risk in the Nigerian Business environment with the objective of identifying the various types of risks facing the businesses operating in Nigeria. Empirical data for the paper was secondary and collected from the Kaduna branch of the Nigerian Stock Exchange...

In this paper, attempt is made to examine the behavioural patterns of the customer and the need for marketers to understand these behavioural patterns in order to assist them in formulating their marketing strategies. In order to do this, effort has been made to identify (a) who the customer is...

The objective of this paper is to determine the cause of queues in hair dressing salons, the average time a customer spends in the salon as a result of the queue, the applicability of a mathematical model (Queuing Models) for use in the management of waiting line problems in hair-dressing salons...

This paper addresses the global issues of non-performance in public sector organizations. The specific problem addressed was the issue of ever-increasing citizens’ expectations from the government and the corresponding inability to live up to these expectations as a result of financial...

This paper examines the role of the Nigerian Stock Exchange in the privatization and commercialization of public enterprises. The hypotheses of this study were formulated around the issues of compliance of valuation and pricing of shares of the privatized enterprises with rules and regulations;...

This paper assesses the determinants of financing patterns of DFIs in Nigeria with particular reference to the Bank of Industry (BOI). The annual reports and accounts form the data basis of the paper. A Multiple Regression Model was developed for the study incorporating two independent variables...

This study examines the performance of privatized firms in Nigeria, with the insurance sector as the case study. We computed pre- and post-privatization means for, profitability, growth, employment, dividend, leverage, and operating efficiency, for a period of 10 years and use the Wilcoxon...

In this paper, an attempt has been made to estimate the impact of share issue privatizations on the growth of the Nigerian capital market (especially stock markets), and to examine the effect privatization has had on the pattern of share ownership by individuals and institutional investors....

This study compares the pre and post privatisation performance of ten banks that experienced privatisation through public share offering during the first phase of the Nigerian's liberalisation policy. The study examines whether the financial and operating performance of the privatised banks...