Ahmadu Abubakar

• Doctor of Philosophy (Management Studies)
• Senior Lecturer at Federal University Dutsin-Ma

This study investigates the effect of Conflict-handling styles (competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding and accommodating) on employees' performance. The sample of 320 was drawn from 1329 employees of Federal College of Education, Technical, Bichi, Kano State. Multiple regression analysis and descriptive statistics were employed as tools o...

This study examines the impact of firm attributes on the financial performance of eight listed deposit money banks in Nigeria over the period 2010- 2021, using fixed effects model. The study utilized five firm attributes which include: firm age, firm size, leverage, growth, and managerial efficiency and used EPS to proxy the financial performance....

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in the economic transformation of developing nations, addressing various challenges such as unemployment, poverty, and food security. Despite their significant contribution to economic growth, these enterprises have faced considerable criticism for their perceived underperformance. Many...

This study examines the effect of Total Quality Management on Customer Satisfaction in Manufacturing Firms in Katsina State. The study collects data using 100 structured questionnaires administered to the customers of five manufacturing firms in Katsina State. Purposive and convenience sampling techniques are utilized. The data used for the study a...

This study examines the moderating effect of organizational culture on the relationship between green innovation, information sharing and SMEs performance in Kano State. The study adopts survey research design and a sample of 220 SMEs registered with Kano State Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture [KACCIMA 2023].The finding reveals...

This research paper investigates the moderating effect of managerial efficiency (ME) on the association between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and market value of Nigerian banks, incorporating four control variables. The paper utilized a panel data of eight Nigerian listed banks over the study period 2010-2021. Static panel techniques such a...

This study investigates the moderating effect of brand loyalty on service quality and customer satisfaction in the telecommunications industry in Northwest Nigeria. A cross-sectional descriptive survey design was utilized, which permits the collection of data from respondents at a certain point in time. The convenience sampling method was used, and...

This study explores the effect of advertising on the consumer buying behaviour of new products (Delidawa & Madish) in Ajinomoto Foods Nigeria Limited, using 550 respondents drawn from different streets of Katsina town, Nigeria. The study adopts a cross-sectional survey research design, favouring the collected structured questionnaire at a single po...

This study empirically analysed the relationship between trade openness and economic growth in Nigeria from 1990 to 2021. The study adopted descriptive statistics; Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) unit root test for stationarity, Johansen Cointegration test for long run relationship and Error Correction Mechanism (ECM) model as the methods of estimati...

Existing empirical literature on cashless banking is one that is quite scanty in the developing countries including Nigeria. Reviews of empirical studies on cashless policy indicate that a lot of prior studies focused on the adoption, prospects and benefits and challenges of cashless policy. This study on the other hand is aimed at investigating th...

This study investigates the effects of electronic customer relationship management (ECRM) on the customer retention of deposit money banks (DMBs) in Dutsin-Ma, Nigeria, using responses obtained from 380 customers of the three DMBs operating in the study area. The study adopts a cross-sectional survey research design, a structured questionnaire as a...

This study analyzed the determinants of leverage of non-financial firms in Nigeria, applying the Two-stage System Generalized Method of Moment (SYS-GMM) on 73 listed firms over the period 2010-2020. Specifically, we considered how the four main determinants that have received serious attention in the literature (asset tangibility, growth, profitabi...

Workplace diversity management and organizational performance of deposit money Banks in Katsina state. The study used primary data collection through mailed questionnaire administered to 296 sample employees by Yamane (1967) sampling technique. Structured questionnaires were administered to the employees of the 8 banks in Katsina State. The respond...

Existing empirical literature on product packaging and consumer patronage is quite scarce in the developing economies including Nigeria. Hence, there is the need for more empirical investigation in this area. This study, therefore, examines the impact of product packaging on consumer patronage using 480 users of pharmaceutical products in the Katsi...

This study investigated the impact of the degree of financial and operating leverages on the financial performance, using panel data sourced from the annual reports and financial statements of six listed oil and gas companies in Nigeria from 2009 to 2018. Descriptive statistics such as mean, median, minimum value, maximum value, standard deviation,...

This study analysed the impact of credit risk management on the financial performance, using evidence from the annual reports/financial statements of 10 quoted deposit money banks in Nigeria during a 7-year period from 2010-2016. The study was carried out using ex-post factor and longitudinal research designs. Descriptive statistics were used in th...

This study investigated the effect of working capital management on the financial performance, using 6 listed oil and gas firms in Nigeria from the period 2008-2018. Panel data techniques in the form of Pooled Ordinary Least Squares (POLS), Fixed Effects and Random Effects models, and descriptive analysis in the form of mean, median, minimum and ma...

Liquidity creation is among the critical role performed by banks. This study examine the relationship between liquidity creation and performance of deposit money banks (DMBs) in Nigeria. The study employed 14 listed DMBs’ in the Nigerian Stock Exchange between the periods 2010 to 2018. The technique of analyses used in the study are the pooled ordi...

This study assessed the effect of financial leverage on the financial performance, using data from the annual reports of 7 quoted oil and gas firms in Nigeria, as well as from the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) daily official lists over the period 2005- 2018. Descriptive statistics were used in data presentation, while random effects panel estimator...

There is scarcity of empirical evidence globally and Nigeria in particular, explaining the relationship between financial leverage and financial performance of listed firms from the construction/real estate and natural resources sector. This paper therefore, investigates the impact of financial leverage on the financial performance, using panel dat...

This study examines the impact of market risk on the financial performance, using panel data from the annual reports and financial statements of seven listed oil and gas firms in Nigeria from 2008 to 2018. Descriptive statistics is used in data presentation, while fixed effect model (FEM) is utilised in analysing the impact of the independent varia...

This study investigated the effect of financial risk on the financial performance, using panel data from the annual reports and financial statements of 8 listed deposit money banks in Nigeria over a 10-year period from 2010 to 2019. The study was conducted using ex-post factor and longitudinal research designs. Descriptive analytical tools such as...

This study was carried out to determine the effect of financial leverage on the financial performance, using secondary data obtained from the annual reports of 7 quoted Oil and Gas firms in Nigeria, and the Nigerian stock exchange (NSE) daily official lists over the period 2005- 2016. Descriptive statistics such as mean, median, minimum, maximum, s...

Despite the establishment of Almajiri formal education in 2012, Nigeria is still experiencing high number of almajiri across the country most especially, the Northern parts. The failure of the recent almajiri formal schools in Northern Nigeria to reduce or eradicate the number of almajiri children roaming the streets and begging for alms calls for...

The study examined the level of Consumers perceptions on the Marketability of Non-interest Banking (NIB) Services in Katsina Metropolis, Nigeria using the AIDA model which is a consumer decision process that involves Awareness, Interest, Desire and Action. Data was collected by means of a structured questionnaire administered on the 500 sampled res...

This study examined the effect of customer complaints on the financial performance, applying random effects generalized least squares model on a panel data of ten (10) quoted deposit money banks in Nigeria, covering a six (6) year period from 2012-2017. The results indicate that customer complaints surrogated by the ratio of resolved customer compl...

This study analysed the effect of credit risk management on the financial performance, using evidence from the annual reports/financial statements of 10 quoted deposit money banks in Nigeria during a 7-year period from 2010-2016. The study was carried out using ex-post factor and longitudinal research designs. Descriptive statistics were used in th...

This study examines the effect of corporate social responsibility expenditure on the profitability of 5 listed oil and gas firms in Nigeria using secondary data obtained from the annual reports/financial statements of the chosen firms" for a period of seven years spanning from 2010-2016. The study adopts ex-post factor and longitudinal research des...

This study evaluated the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the financial performance, applying pooled ordinary least square model on a panel data of the ten (10) quoted deposit money banks in Nigeria, over a period of eight (8) years from 2010-2017. The study explores Expost-factor and longitudinal research designs. The results rev...

This study analyzed the impact of financial leverage on the financial performance of three quoted firms in the agricultural sector in Nigeria, between 2005 and 2017. The study adopted ex-post factor and longitudinal research designs. Descriptive statistics and Pooled Ordinary Least Squares were adopted as methods of estimation. The major findings r...

This paper examined the effect of financial leverage on the financial performance using 7 companies quoted on the Services Sector of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), during the period 2005-2016. Descriptive statistics and Fixed Effects Model were used to present the data and to test the hypotheses respectively. The major findings of the study rev...

This paper analyzed the effect of financial leverage on the financial performance of eleven (11) quoted industrial goods firms in Nigeria, during the period 2005- 2016. Descriptive statistics in the form of mean; median; minimum; maximum; standard deviation; coefficient of variation; skewness and kurtosis, while panel data technique in the form of...

The available research works on entrepreneurs’ leadership styles concentrate on large scale enterprises. There are few studies on small and medium enterprises as it affects bakeries in Kaduna Metropolis. The general objective of the paper is, therefore, to examine the relationship between entrepreneurs’ leadership styles and employee performance in...

This paper analyzed the effect gender and ethnic diversity on the financial performance, through the Board Risk Management and Board Credit Committees of 10 banks in Nigeria during the period 2010-2016. Descriptive statistics and Pooled Ordinary Least Squares are the methods of estimation utilized. The major finding reveals that Board Risk Manageme...

This study examined the effect of corporate social responsibility expenditure on the profitability of 5 listed oil and gas firms in Nigeria using secondary data obtained from the annual reports/financial statements of the chosen firms' for a period of seven years spanning from 2010-2016. The study adopts ex-post facto and longitudinal research desi...

This study analyzed the impact of financial leverage on the financial performance using 3 quoted firms on the Agriculture Sector of Nigeria, over the period 2005-2017. The study adopts Ex-post factor and longitudinal research designs. Descriptive statistics and Pooled Ordinary Least Squares were adopted as methods of estimation. The major findings...

This study analyzed the impact of financial leverage on the financial performance using 3 quoted firms on the Agriculture Sector of Nigeria, over the period 2005-2017. The study adopts Ex-post factor and longitudinal research designs. Descriptive statistics and Pooled Ordinary Least Squares were adopted as methods of estimation. The major findings...

This study investigated the effect of gender diversity on the financial performance, using panel data comprising 70 observations i.e. 10 quoted deposit money banks in Nigeria covering the period 2010-2016. Descriptive statistics are used for data presentation, while Fixed Effects Model was used in investigating the association between the gender di...

This study investigated the effect of dividend policy on the stock price, using 5 quoted deposit money banks in Nigeria, during the period 2010-2016. Data was sourced through the annual reports of selected banks, and the daily official lists of the Nigerian stock exchange (NSE) for the period under review. Descriptive as well as Fixed Effects Model...

This study investigated the effects of financial leverage on financial performance using 66 non-financial firms from 10 sectors of the Nigerian stock exchange over the period 2005- 2014. Panel data techniques in the form of Random Effects Model and descriptive analysis in the form of mean, median, minimum and maximum values had been applied to achi...

This research investigated the effects of board diversity on financial performance of ten (10) quoted deposit money banks in Nigeria using secondary data over the period 2010-2014. Descriptive analysis were used to describe the data set, while panel regressions were used to assess the effects of board diversity on firms' financial performance. The...

Several scholarly studies have been conducted to establish relationships between SC breakdown and performance of manufacturing enterprises without any serious attention on the relationship between approaches to manage SC breakdown and operational performance of enterprises. Therefore, this paper provides an empirical analysis of the causal relation...

This study assessed the effects of board diversity on financial performance of quoted deposit money banks in Nigeria, using secondary data from the annual reports of sampled banks over the period 2010-2014. The study adopted both descriptive and panel data regression techniques. Descriptive statistics in the form of mean, minimum and maximum values...

The theory of financial leverage and its relationship with firms' performance has been an issue of great concern in corporate finance and accounting literature since the seminal work of Modigliani and Miller in 1958.This study investigated the effects of financial leverage on firms' performance using 66 non-financial firms' from all the 10 sectors...

This paper investigated the effect of financial leverage on financial performance using 5 companies from the Health Care Sector of the Nigerian Stock Exchange over the period 2005-2014. Panel data techniques in the form of Pooled Ordinary Least Squares (POLS) and Fixed Effects models had been applied to achieve the study's objectives, while descrip...

The general objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between financial leverage and financial performance of deposit money banks in Nigeria, with specific reference to how debt-equity ratio and debt ratio affect return on equity of deposit money banks in Nigeria. This study selects 11 deposit money banks from Tier 1, Tier 2 and Ti...

This study examined the relationship between electronic banking and liquidity of deposit money banks in Nigeria, using time series data for the period 2006-2014. The data was analyzed using both descriptive and correlation analysis to describe the data set and to identify the association between electronic banking, proxies by internet banking, mobi...

This study appraised customer satisfaction with General System Mobile Communication (GSM) services in Dutsin-ma, Katsina state, Nigeria. The study employed survey method and used questionnaire as the instrument for data collection. The analysis was done using inferential statistics. Specifically, regression statistic test was used and analyzed usin...

Using time series data for the period 2006-2012, this study examined the effects of electronic banking on growth of deposit money banks in Nigeria. Data were collected from secondary sources through annual reports and statistical bulletin of Central Bank of Nigeria. Electronic banking was measured using the total value of internet and mobile bankin...

This study appraised customer satisfaction with General System Mobile Communication (GSM) services in Dutsin-ma, Katsina state, Nigeria. The study employed survey method and used questionnaire as the instrument for data collection. The analysis was done using inferential statistics. Specifically, regression statistic test was used and analyzed usin...