Public authorities and central banks around the world are closely monitoring developments in digital currencies and studying their implications for the economy, the financial system and central banks. This lack of physical form allows nearly instantaneous transactions over the internet and removes the cost associated with distributing notes and coins, which would give room for the achievement of financial inclusion, which is the compelling factor that incited the Central Bank of Nigeria to inve... read more

insurance with the view to arousing the awareness of thepolicyholders and prospective ones. This will be achieved by highlighting13the insurance mechanism, discovering the weak areas that need to bestrengthened and recommendations will be proffered for further study.Also the study is to highlight the fundamental principles of insurance, whichthe society has not been able to recognize. This work is made in such wayas to highlight the need for insurance in our society. Taking all these intoconside... read more

nsurance industry. The study adopts descriptive and analytical method of historical and time series data. The study was conducted to cover the period from 1986 to 2011 (twenty-five years). The secondary data used for the study was obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Statistical Bulletin, 2014. The secondary data were presented in tables and multiple regression method was adopted to assess the relationship between the variables employed. T-statistics and F-statistics were used to test... read more

Appreciation of the topic to be discussed will not be fully attained if a brief historical review of the steel industry is not given. In the past, developing countries, Nigeria inclusive did not have a balance of economy and they urgently needed to be rescued from their under development trap. This they realized could not be achieved until they developed their own iron and steel industries, the bedrock of any economy. This recognition let Nigeria to develop its steel industry t... read more

At this time, the Nigeria government is intensifying efforts to boost the country’s economy, the need to research on the fact that led to economic growth in Nigeria cannot be understated. This study will aid our understanding of economic development via the insurance sub-sectors participation in the capital market. Thus, this research work is considered to be important to: i) The government for policy formulation. ii) The business community for the purpose of investment and capital form... read more

It is common to report of business failing than business succeeding almost always, the failure or success of a business can be attributed to its management. When a business is mismanaged, it will lead to liquidation the company will not meet their solvency margin thereby running away from their obligation image. However it will also have a drastic effect on the Nigeria economy when it failed. In order top nurture the interaction, this research focus on insurance industries and how they manageme... read more

Due to the high level of illiteracy in the Nigerian society, many people are unaware of insurance policies. However, with the enactment of Insurance Decree[1], the awareness of insurance policies was enhanced. Thus, more people took steps to insure their properties or lives. Unfortunately, however, much as the high percentage of them normally end up unable to have their claims indemnified, either as a result of a breach of one insurance principle or another. These principles are numerous and the... read more

In Nigeria the issue of taking life assurance policy has been neglected, in the sense that at this present time, it is estimated that not up to two percent (2%) of Nigerian’s own life assurance policies, from the research made on the internet, life assurance business is more operated and recognized in other countries such as UK, USA, Canada, Germany and other European countries, in Africa life assurance business is more recognized in South Africa for this fact, the benefits and roles life as... read more

1.4 Research Question The following are the research questions: (1) Does Enugu State Pension Board pay pension regularly? (2) Does retiree suffers after retirement because of non implementation of gratuity? (3) What are the effects of poor retirement benefit on Nigerian economy?

Globalization means the whole world is becoming a global village, the world are coming together to be one in unity, things are happening generally people don’t produce to satisfy the market people around them, but they produce for the whole market. What is happening at Saudi Arabia, America, Europe etc. is happening in Nigeria, Ghana and parts of the whole world it is globalization. Globalization is a new world order that emphasis global perspective of the whole universe in further words that ... read more

The principle feature, which distinguishes agriculture from other production sectors, is its great dependence on nature which itself is beyond man’s control. The agricultural sector, as importance as it is exposed to extremely high degree of disk arising out of natural factors like weather conditions. Uncertainties, regarding the quality and quality of the crop/livestock output due to natural hazards, are one of the basic risks that are constantly faced by every farmer. But majority of farmers... read more

Insurance industry is a very vital aspect of Nigeria economy and its importance and roles can not be overemphasized. In this project work the researcher want to identify the history of insurance industry in the Nigeria economy and also the actual roles and the importance of insurance industry to the common man and the society at large. such roles importance include in every sector of the economy, like, the banking sector, Agricultural/Sector, aviation sector, Business sector etc. the research w... read more

Health insurance is a social security system that guarantees the provision of needed health services to persons on the payment of taken contributions at regular intervals. The first attempt at adopting a health insurance system, Nigeria started in 1962 during the first republic. The federal government invited Dr. Halevi through the international labour organization (120) to look into starting a health insurance system in Lagos. Then minister for health Dr. Majekodunmi also presented the first bi... read more

Nigerian insurance industry has been in a great trend of improvement from the pre-consolidation to the post consideration ear. They are smarting from the wealth sport industry from the recapitalization and expanding globally to compete internation communities. They are currently participating in the local content initiative of out and gas business energy insurance marine and aviation and other transportational and logistic risks. Hence, Nigerian supporting industry is an area that have not actua... read more

This research work, the researcher examined the role of insurance middlemen in the growth and development of insurance business. The information for the study was collected using primary and secondary methods of data collection. For a primary data collection, while existing literature relevant to the topic was consulted for the secondary data. The research used chi-square statistical model to analyze the data. The researcher found out that Insurance middleman has significant impact in the develo... read more

Before now, motorist, were at liberty to drive their cars on the public highways without any form of insurance. However, as the number of cars multiply on the highways rate of accident injured and death also multiple. Hence, the need for motor insurance. The first country that gave a lead in this direction was the great Britain. Other countries have the Traffic Act at 1930, introduced a compulsory insurance. The Act made it an offence for anyone to use or permit the use of a meter vehi... read more

Insurance is a safe-guard against risks. Any device aimed at reducing the chances of a risk occurring, when it happens, reducing the extent of its damage and providing the affected persons with compensation is a form of insurance. Insurance as a contract is between two parties where one party called the insurer undertakes to pay the other party called the insured a fixed amount of money in the occurrence of a specified insured event. Obasi (2010) defines it as “a contract between the person... read more

Insurance can be seen from many points of view according to Hezen Ibeabuchi I. (2000) introduction to insurance, she postulate that insurance is a process of transferring a risk from one party to another. Secondly, insurance can be defined as a contract between two parties the insurer and the insured (proposer), whereby the insured pay a relative amount of money called premium to that the insurer will undertaken his risk and pay sum insured (indemnity) if the risk of the insured occur at a contr... read more

Regulation of Nigeria’s insurance industry has become substantially intensified in the last two decades. This paper critically evaluates the philosophy and challenges of insurance regulation in the context of post-authoritarian governance and increasing economic liberalization in Africa’s potential largest insurance market. The last two decades has witnessed among others, government regulatory intervention through the establishment of a regulator and mandatory recapitalization.

In today’s modern society, the need for extending insurance services to the rural areas by the insurance industry is of a great important. The insurance industries which part of financial institution exist for the purpose of indemnifying an insured in the case of any loss occurrence. Furthermore, the insurance industry in Nigeria and has not been accepted by its people as to take its rightful place in the nation’s economy. The importance of the provision of insurance services has bee... read more