There are increasing scholarly debates on the direction of policy to effectively improve the performance of banks. Some scholars argue that bank performance is enhanced by improvements in the internal organization and managerial efficiency, others argue that industry wide factors are integral to...

With the election of an African American as President, many would think that the question of affirmative action and equal opportunity has been finally laid to rest in the United States. This perception may be true for the proponents of affirmative action, whom over the years believe that the...

This paper investigates the level of competition in the Nigerian banking industry employing a non-structural approach deduced from Panzar and Rosse (1987) model, on a bank level data 2005 – 2014. The crux of this paper is to ascertain the prevailing market structure in the Nigerian banking...

The Niger Delta region is the oil producing area of Nigeria, which consists of highly diverse ecosystems that are supportive of numerous species of terrestrial and aquatic fauna and flora. Crude oil spills endanger fish hatcheries in coastal water and also contaminate valuable fish. This study...

This paper investigates the impact of monetary policy variables on the performance of the stock market in Nigeria using quarterly data for twenty four years (1984:1 – 2007:4). A linear combination of stock market index and monetary policy variables is estimated using ordinary least squares;...

There are increasing scholarly debates on the direction of policy to effectively improve the performance of banks. Some scholars argue that bank performance is enhanced by improvements in the internal organization and managerial efficiency, others argue that industry wide factors are integral to...

With the election of an African American as President, many would think that the question of affirmative action and equal opportunity has been finally laid to rest in the United States. This perception may be true for the proponents of affirmative action, whom over the years believe that the...

In this paper, the central objective is to analyze the visual rhetoric of selected fashion ads in Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Maxim and GQ (Gentlemen Quarterly), to show how sexually explicit images of the female body is used to sell products to consumers, and to determine whether this is in response...

In this paper, the central objective is to analyze the visual rhetoric of selected fashion ads in Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Maxim and GQ (Gentlemen Quarterly), to show how sexually explicit images of the female body is used to sell products to consumers, and to determine whether this is in response...

There are increasing scholarly debates on the direction of policy to effectively improve the performance of banks. Some scholars argue that bank performance is enhanced by improvements in the internal organization and managerial efficiency others argue that industry wide factors are integral to...