Patrick Igudia

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• BSc; MBA; MRes; PhD
• Senior Researcher at Ambrose Alli University

method using the structured questionnaire strategy. Three factors were tested using the Spearman's Correlation statistical analysis aided with the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25 at 5% level of significance. A total population/sample size of 58 staff members of the Bank was purposively selected. The results of the study in...

This study investigates the impact of employee training on organisational performance with focus on small manufacturing firms in the table (Sachet) water subsector. The organisational scope of the study consisted of two table water factories (Lumen Christi Table Water and Ever-Well Table Water) both at Uromi in Edo State, Nigeria. Organisations tra...

This study examined the effects of organisational change on employee productivity in the banking sector in Nigeria. Following a comprehensive literature review, the study identified technological, cultural, employee attitude to change, leadership, and change in customers’ taste as the change strategies that can facilitate competitive advantage and...

Since the coming of the Buhari administration in 2015, Nigeria has consistently amassed huge internal and external debts thereby jacking up its debt repayment and servicing obligations. The huge debt obligations have had adverse effect on the general economy. Research indicates that this state of affairs is partly responsible for the poor state of...

Over the years, there have been hues and cries by those who seek medical care and attention from government-owned health-care centres in Nigeria. The health-care givers in these institutions, particularly in Edo State, have been accused of failure to exhibit certain internationally acceptable discretional behaviours towards their patients/clients o...

The broad objective of this paper is to assess the impact of the performance of non-oil sector on Nigeria’s economic growth. Specifically, this paper seeks to ascertain the effect of economic diversification on business development. Expo-facto research design was adopted for the study, a panel data of 2000-2017 was used for the study, the augumente...

The paper is more of an advocacy for the E=Payment systems to be adopted and used maximally by the small and medium enterprises in Nigeria as doing so will not only be of great benefits to the individual adopter, but will in addition enhance Nigeria's ability to massively participate in the global internet business and by implication enhance her ec...

A Qualitative Analysis of the Agricultural Policy Dynamics and the Nigerian Economy: 1960-2015 Dr Patrick Ohunmah Igudia (PhD) Department of Business Administration, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma Email: poigudia@yahoo.co.uk ABSTRACT Historically, the agricultural sector constitutes one of the most important sectors of most countries including...

Abstract No nation can compete in a global market without developing a versatile and veritable platform for competition, especially in trade and commerce through e-business and e-commerce. Not too long ago, the Nigerian government enacted a visionary policy code-named PSV20:2020 targeted at adopting ICT for proper management of the Nigerian econom...

This paper examines the interaction between the use of electronic payments and economic growth in Nigeria. It is more or less a stocktaking of the level of stimulation of economic growth through the instrumentality of EPS infrastructure in Nigeria in particular. Using secondary data from the archives of the central bank of Nigeria (CBN) over the pe...

This paper investigates the factors influencing the adoption and extent of use of e-payment systems by SMEs in Nigeria. The paper develops an integrated model following a comprehensive review of literature in IS/IT adoption and diffusion in organisations. The paper used primary data culled from a survey conducted in Lagos state of Nigeria in 2012 f...

This empirical study of the structure and growth trend of government total expenditure in Nigeria from 1960 to 2014 is more of a stocktaking exercise. The study examines the growth trend and pattern of government expenditures over the intervening period. It also investigates the items of expenditure that are potentially amenable to wide discretiona...

This empirical study of the growth of government total expenditure in Nigeria from 1960 to 2014 is to determine whether Wagner's law of expanding state activity on the long run is applicable and extendable to other environmental contexts. The paper discusses the applicability of Wagner's model and hypothesis to Nigeria. The study adopts the ordinar...