The relationship between financial development and economic growth has been subjected to several debates by various authors. It has been argued that a competitive and efficient financial sector is a prerequisite for economic growth and development. The objective of this study therefore is to examine the relationship between bank competition and economic growth in Nigeria for the period 1986 – 2...

The plants, grown in the soils around a Fuel Holding Depot of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria have been investigated in this research in terms of their density and species composition so that the impact of contamination by petroleum products on soil seed banks could be determined. The study has used designated plots (25m by 25m) in a site, contaminated by...

This working note describes the system we used while participating in RusProfiling PAN 2017 shared task. The objective of the task is to identify the gender trait of the author from the author’s text written in the Russian Language. Taking this as a binary text classification problem, we have experimented to develop a representation scheme for target classes (called class vectors) from the text...

The plants, grown in the soils around a Fuel Holding Depot of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria have been investigated in this research in terms of their density and species composition so that the impact of contamination by petroleum products on soil seed banks could be determined. The study has used designated plots (25m by 25m) in a site, contaminated by...

In an evolving Nigerian banking industry, strategies are being adopted by the major players in order to achieve their long-term organizational goals-profitability and survival. In the light of this belief, much emphasis is being laid on the computerization of their banking operations. Within the last decade, the Nigerian banking industry has been at the forefront of computerization. This is wit...

The paper established the facts that poverty is indeed increasing in Nigeria based on the poverty assessment study commissioned and sponsored by the World Bank in 1995. It further indicated in the introduction that the World Bank and the IMF group are focusing on poverty reduction as a prerequisite for debt relief. The paper is structured into five sections with introduction being section one. ...

as “unmanaged risks.” The term “unmanaged” connotes the practical difficulties associated with managing fraud risk effectively and dynamically. In recent years, while the number of publicized frauds—unauthorized usage of credit and ATM cards, checking account fraud, Nigerian scams, etc.—increased, these cases merely constituted the tip of the iceberg. Estimates are that just 20% of frauds are e...

the study evaluated the major constraints hampering the effective functioning of the nigerian agricultural cooperative and rural development bank (nacrdb) in kogi state, nigeria. using the food crop farmers as a case study, a multi-stage random sampling technique was used to select three agricultural zone in kogi state ( zone a, b, and c).primary data were collected through the use of structure...