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EFFECT OF BOARD ATTRIBUTES ON ENVIRONMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF LISTED MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN NIGERIA
Get PDFThe increasing global concern for the environment and the consequent academic interest in researching best environmental disclosure that enhances the quality of reporting had given tremendous drive for this current research. This study examined the effect of board-specific attributes on the environmental disclosure of listed manufacturing firms in Nigeria. The study used the correlational research design with a positivist research paradigm, and agency theory to underpin the relationship between the independent variables and the dependent variable of interest. The population of the study consisted of the 52 listed manufacturing firms on the Nigerian Exchange Group, the population was later reduced to a sample size of 43 manufacturing using the filtration method. Quantitative data were extracted from the audited annual reports of the 43 manufacturing firms used in the study for twelve-year period covering 2011 to 2022. The data were analyzed using the Fixed Effect regression technique. Findings from the study show a significant positive relationship between board size, board gender, board expertise, board independence, and environmental disclosure of listed manufacturing firms in Nigeria. The implication of this result indicate that increase in these variables will lead to a corresponding increase in the environmental disclosure of listed manufacturing firms in Nigeria. Based on the findings of the study, it is recommended that the management of the sampled firms should increase the minimum number of board size to nine members, board independence to about 11.92% of the directors on the board and the minimum number of women on the board should increase to 15.59% as established by the study. This is because it was established by the findings of the study that increase of the various variables as indicated by the descriptive statistics will promote the environmental disclosure among the listed manufacturing firms in Nigeria. Also, the management of the firms should carry out policies that will promote the inclusion of foreign directors on the board as this was also shown to improve the environmental disclosure of manufacturing firms in Nigeria
Saffondi Nayi al-Nawawī (Collection of al-Nawawī's Forty-Four Ḥadiths)
Get PDFThe entire manuscript is available for download as a single PDF file. Higher-resolution images may be available upon request. For technical assistance, please contact [email protected]. Fieldwork Team: Dr. Mustapha Hashim Kurfi (Principal Investigator), Mohammed Bara’u Musa & Hauwa Usman (Local Project Managers), Adamu Mohammed, Abacha Kachalla, Abdrra’uf Abdullahi & Falmaa Madu Ibrahim (General Field Facilitators), and Haladu Mamman (Photographer). Technical Team: Prof. Fallou Ngom (Director African Studies Center), and Eleni Castro (Technical Lead, BU Libraries). These Collections of Fulfulde & Kanuri Ajami materials are copied as part of the African Studies Center’s African Ajami Library.
Access Condition and Copyright: These materials are subject to copyright. All rights reserved to the author. For use, distribution or reproduction contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]).
Citation: Materials in this web edition should be cited as: Kurfi, Mustapha Hashim, Ngom, Fallou, and Castro, Eleni (2019). African Ajami Library: Digital Preservation of Fulfulde & Kanuri Ajami Materials of Northeastern Nigeria. Boston: Boston University Libraries: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/38242. For Inquiries: Please contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]).Provenance / Custodial history: The owner of this manuscript is Alhaji Bashir Jauro from Yola located in Adamawa State in northeastern Nigeria. The owner purchased it in 2011 during a book fair in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State. The publication date is not indicated, but the text is evidently a complete bound copy of a market edition.This manuscript is a Fulfulde Ajami translation of Imām al-Nawawī’s forty-four ḥadiths. This ḥadith collection is perhaps the most popular one in northern Nigeria. Students in Quranic school students study the text and are expected to read, memorize, and chant it in Arabic and to translate it into other local languages. The author, whose name is not written on the digitized manuscript, provides a line by line translation of the Arabic ḥadiths and offers comments in Fulfulde Ajami.
The text addresses many aspects of Islamic rituals, including faithfulness, goodwill, chastity, devotion, contentment, virtuous habits, oneness of Allāh, human relations, and preparedness for the judgment day.The contents of this collection were developed with support of the Title VI National Resource Center grant # P015A180164 from the U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government
