Nigeria Course Works Samples For Students

Forewords

Water sustainability is a crucial issue in Nigeria as well as in other developing countries. The significant issues of water sustainability in Nigeria include many factors as desertification; the depletion of critical wetlands, forests and vegetation covers at a fast rate. In addition, it includes the pollution of water sources from point sources such as industrial effluent and urban domestic wastes; unregulated utilization of groundwater for domestic purposes. There is also an issue of unavailability of portable water for citizens in most parts of the country particularly those in the rural areas and so forth (Ajai). These water sustainability issues are ...

Akpabio, E., and Akpan, N., 2010. Governance and oil politics in Nigeria’s Niger Delta: The question of distributive equity. Journal of Human Ecology, 30(2), pp.111-121.
Frynas, J., 2000. Oil in Nigeria: Conflict and litigation between oil companies and village communities. Germany: Lit Verlag Munster.
Omeje, K., 2005. Oil conflict in Nigeria: Contending issues and perspectives of the local Niger Delta people. New Political Economy, 10(3), pp.321-334.

The Nigerian political economy is seriously damaged by the rift between international oil companies with large-scale operations in the Niger ...

1 Introduction

Nigeria poses a set of unique business and cultural challenges to international organizations functioning in the country. Shell Oil Development Company Ltd. is one such global organization. This paper seeks to evaluate the business environment in Nigeria and the strategy followed by Shell to adapt to it.

2 Business environment in Nigeria

Nigeria is one of the most populated countries in the African subcontinent. The country has a vast wealth of natural resources, especially oil, which accounts for the numerous international businesses ...

Introduction

In the era of globalisation, it has become inevitable for businesses to survive without expanding in the overseas market. With the passage of time, businesses have witnessed severe competition in the market due to the change in the perspective of the business owners (Hill, 2010).
The objective of this study is to incorporate the concept of internationalisation while taking into account the most feasible overseas markets. In addition, the study encompasses several factors that are severely important to expand the business. Some of the prominent factors that are incorporated within the study include political, economic issues, cultural issues, ...

1. Nigeria to Chicago

Discuss the distinct advantages and disadvantages for Israel and Ngozi in comparison to Barine even though all three were immigrating from the same political context in Nigeria. How did their gender, class and race impact their experiences in the U.S.?

Israel Nwidor, wife Ngozi and Barine were among individuals who were living in Nigeria and were to be sent away from the country. Their destination was the United States. However, the three parties were facing different merits as demerits. Nwidor and Ngozi were disadvantages in that they were to be sent away from Nigeria with no wealth or money ...

Introduction

Comparing stock exchanges from two countries at different stages of economic development is an interesting case, because it can show what aspects of capital market theory have universal application and what the limitations are. In addition, recommendations could be made for a developing country, based on the example of the developed one. With this perspective, the report reviews the business and regulatory developments of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE) as well as assesses present challenges facing them. All stock exchanges function within the economic, regulatory and general institutional frameworks of their countries, therefore a brief ...

Introduction

Organisations can thrive in a market environment only when they effectively compete and adapt to new trends by improving the quality of goods and services they offer (Fen & Lian 2010). In the hotel and restaurant industry, indicators of quality services include adherence to standards set forth by laws and customer satisfaction. In order to be effective, any change project aimed at enhancing services must be managed well. It is then important to understand the process of change and the role of leaders/managers in it.

In this paper, I propose a change project for a hotel in Nigeria, which I will refer ...

Chevron Petroleum is a multinational energy company headquartered in California, USA. Chevron ranks among the six top most oil companies in the world. The corporation is actively operating in about 180 countries. The company is engaged in the various aspects of energy production; these aspects include geothermal, oil, and gas. The company undertakes power generation, exploration, refining, production, chemicals manufacture, transport and marketing.

Chevron is considered the third-largest oil producer in Nigeria and it is one of the largest private investors in Nigeria. The corporation operates as a joint venture with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. This venture operates in the ...

Technology has been in use for many years past, but its initial application was in technical and scientific fields. However, the business culture has so far changed everything. With investors seeking for means to increase their sales and marketing objectives, technology has emerged as one of the most effective tools for business growth. E-Business is the integration of internet with management in order to increase productivity, sell brand name, increase sales or perform any other business oriented task. Its adaptability and ease of application has made many business individuals and to embrace the strategy in order to succeed. Nigeria ...

Abnormal returns refers to the excess returns that are generated by an investment over and above the expected return. Abnormal returns are positive if the actual returns are higher than the expected and negative if the actual returns are lower than the expected returns. This section seeks to compare the pre merger and post merger abnormal returns of the Access Bank of Nigeria. It also seeks to analyze how abnormal returns relate to mergers and acquisition.

In July 2004, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced a new bank policy on the minimum paid-up capital requirement of banks in Nigeria. ...

“Bribery and corruption in the public sector, is endemic and unavoidable in all societies.”

Introduction
In 2012, the biggest stories of corruption were the allegation against Wal-Mart regarding the payment of bribes amounting to US$24 million in its Mexican operations (Barstow, 2012). A year before, in 2011, a survey was carried out by the Transparency International in 30 countries for their views on corruption. “The results found that 27 percent, or more than one in four businesspeople surveyed, think that they had lost business in the last 12 months due to bribery” (Hardoon, 2012). Corruption is a multifaceted event that involves a wide variety of actions taken by individuals. A simple definition of ...

“Bribery and corruption in the public sector, is endemic and unavoidable in all societies.”

Introduction

In 2012, the biggest stories of corruption were the allegation against Wal-Mart regarding the payment of bribes amounting to US$24 million in its Mexican operations. A year before, in 2011, a survey was carried out by the Transparency International in 30 countries for their views on corruption. “The results found that 27 percent, or more than one in four businesspeople surveyed, think that they had lost business in the last 12 months due to bribery” (Barstow, 2013). Corruption is a highly complex phenomenon; which ...

Question 1: The Rise of Japanese Democracy

Japan stands out as one of the nations that have a thriving democracy in the East Asia. Just before the end of the Second World War II, Japan was only a formative democracy just like it is the case with most Middle East countries at the moment. However, following the writing of a new constitution in the year 1947, Japan transformed into a constitutional democracy. The building of democracy in Japan has been achieved through a combination of factors. First, Japan is an ethnically heterogeneous nation which enables for accommodation of other people’s views, a key facet of democracy. The country boasts of a rich ...

Market Planning

SWOT analysis is a process used in evaluating the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that occur in any business entity (Phla & Richter, 2009). It comprises of specific objectives of the business venture and identifies both the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieve the set targets and objectives of any given firm (Phla & Richter, 2009).

Factor

• strength
• weakness
• opportunity
• threats

Product

• Variety kind of Safe guard Soap. (bathing, Showering, washing etc soaps)
• Lack of means to access remote areas.
• New market place & identification of a market gap.
• High competition in the market I.e.
• Delta soap, Medisoft, ...
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Introduction:

Egungun Masquerade costume, Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, mid-20th century.

The materials used in making this piece of art includes beads, glass and metallic threads. The cloth and cowrie shells also forms a major part of this costume. The materials used are of value to the Yoruba people in Nigeria. The cowrie shells are used in the sculpture in order to signify the cultural norms of the Yoruba people especially on the dances and ceremonial activities. The combined use of cowrie shells and the metallic threads are used by the artist to form a unique color and structure in order to appeal to ...

How convincing is the proposition put forward by both these writers that coordination and motivation of business activity is achieved predominantly through organizations rather than the market and what relevance does this have for you as a student of

Management

Introduction
Coordination is the synthesized manner in which many related items are joined together to create a larger item and in unison have semantic linkages that are similar with the rest of the neighboring aspects (Olson et.al, 2001).

Taking for instance the Nigerian government, it has changing phases of governance. This is because of the poorly performing political parties that face ...

Accounting Practices in third world countries

The developing or less developed countries are referred to third world countries that have great diversity among them. In this category, some poorest countries of the world (Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Grenada) and some are not-so-poor countries (Qata, Saudi Arabia) are included (Guan and Pourjalali, 2010). For industrialization, some are very poorly industrialized while others have moved to industrialization. So, the culture and political environment of these countries are different to each other that influence the accounting practices of these countries and affect the accounting of companies or branch operations which are US based.

Financial accounting in third world ...

War against Polio

Throughout the history of humanity, viral diseases have been with people, and for a very long time, medical scientists have sought various ways to stop and eliminate them. In the developed states, vaccines were produced to make humans immune to diseases such as rubella, mumps, measles and whooping cough. However, it was just once that any virus has been eliminated from its last defense in both the body of human and the wild and effectively treated completely. This virus was smallpox, which was totally eliminated outside high-security laboratories in 1977. From that day on, people have been free to inject ...

Part 1

- In what ways did the video "The Crisis of Credit" demonstrate the failure of the banking industry's Fiduciary Relationship to investors and home owners?

The video explains a worldwide financial disaster that effected everyone. It started on the burst of the dot com bubble when the federal reserve of the United States decreased the interest rate to 1%. This value dramatically dropped the investment level because of the reduced ROI. This action made banks to take more and more loans from the Federal Reserve. The leverage increased as it became very easy to return a loan, so the demand for credit increased rapidly.

The banks took a lot of credit, and they were easily able to payback and made a lot of profits. Investors saw this as ...

Business

America is a nation that is full of different cultures and values depending upon different kinds of people, and each one of the diverse culture is valuable and unique in its own way. Without even one of the element in this diverse culture, the package is incomplete. This diverse nature of culture is what sets America apart from all other nations and keeps life going at America. (Le, H 2013)

The diverse culture that America holds is what makes the nation strong; otherwise America would have been just another average nation like the others. The culture that prevails in America acknowledges ...