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The Role of Commodity Board in Food Crop Productions and Marketing in Nigeria
No full textNigeria has had a fairly long history of government intervention in agricultural marketing. But, for most of the time, government interest centred around the so called export or cash crops such as cocoa, groundnuts, palm produce, cotton, benniseed, soyabeans and rubber. This interest was dictated by three factors: first, the colonial government wanted an efficient system of evacuating the badly needed raw materials to factories overseas; second, the export of these crops was the main source of foreign exchange required to finance imports, and third, the output of these crops was subject to various forms of taxes which became an important source of government revenue
Statistical Section (December 1979)
No full textThis is a statistical representation of economic activities in Nigeria in December 197
CBN Joint Consultative Council: an experiment that need not fail
No full textThe article discuses the Central Bank of Nigeria\u27s Joint Consultative Council. The Management of the Central Bank of Nigeria constituted the JCC for purposes of deliberation, consultation and communication with the CBN workers. The article further discusses selected clauses of the senior staff Joint Consultative Council. The article further identified the problems the JCC confronted since it was established three years before then
Nigeria\u27s economic outlook
No full textThe immediate post-war era brought into the Nigerian economy some of the most significant structural transformations ever imagined. From a position of dominant dependence on agriculture, the Nigerian economy swang over to that of dominant dependence on crude petroleum production for foreign exchange earnings, for government revenues and as the main source of incomes for investment, trade and general economic development. The article therefore reviews the post war policies covering 1973 to 1977. The paper further discusses Nigeria\u27s economic outlook while focusing on fiscal outlook, exchange control measures, petroleum export, private sector investment, income policy, monetary and fiscal policy measures
Development of manpower
No full textThe paper examines the manpower problems of the Nigerian banking industry and further highlights the role of central banks, commercial and merchant banks and tertiary institutions in manpower development. The paper makes useful suggestions as to how to improve the situation and recommended the establishment of central bank training school
The Role of insurance institutions
No full textThe paper is a lecture at the 13th Annual Banking Seminar. It explains the role of insurance as it affects the supply and demand for money in the Nigerian financial system and the possible effect of the new monetary guidelines on the fund of NICON Insurance Limited.
CBN can further aid the economic development of Cross River State
No full textThe paper is an excerpt from the speech of Captain Babatunde Elegbede, Military Administrator of Cross River State during the opening ceremony of the Calabar Branch of the Central Bank of Nigeria
Problems of branch management
No full textThis an interview of the then Branch Controller of Kano branch, Mr. J. U. Ebodaghe. In the interview, Mr. Ebodaghe highlighted some of the problems of branch management and offers some suggestions on what to do in order to improve the operations of CBN branches
The role of agriculture in the Nigerian economy
No full textAgriculture was the mainstay of the Nigerian economy before the so-called oil boom which has brought about a rapid decline in agricultural production, virtual stagnation in the rural economy, marked movement of population from the rural to urban centres and high cost of food items. The article examines some recent developments in the agricultural sector of the Nigerian economy. It also discusses some of the role of Central Bank of Nigeria in promoting agriculture through adequate funding
Quaterly interpolation of constant price gross domestic product of Nigeria - 1963/64 - 1972/73
No full textThis paper explores the possibility of estimating quarterly constant price Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Nigeria from published annual figures. The paper employs statistical techniques to break-up annual into quarterly series. An effort is made to explore an alternative approach to the use of a single economic indicator to estimate GDP on a quarterly basis