Browsing by Author "Dogara, Nasiru Danladi"

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    IMPACT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ON THE PERFORMANCE OF NASARAWA STATE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
    (Department of Business Administration, Nasarawa State University, Keffi., 2019-08-03) Dogara, Nasiru Danladi
    Over the years, adoption of use of information communication technology ICT by organizations including board of internal revenue services in Nigeria is ever increasing. The essence is to improve the performance of the sector in terms of operational efficiency, service quality delivery and improve revenue collection, yet the sector still witness performance inconsistency or low performance even with the adoption of use of ICT. It has therefore become worrisome as questions are frequently raised as whether to go back to the usual manual system (pre ICT adoption system) of revenue collection. However, the problem that need to address is to determine whether the adoption of ICT by Nasarawa State Board of Internal Revenue has impact on their performance or not. The objective was thus, to assess the impact of information and communication technology on the performance of Nasarawa State Board of Internal Revenue Service. The study relied on literatures that provide conceptual understanding and theoretical underpinning of the study construct. This study adopted survey and descriptive research design. The population used for this study was one hundred and forty two (142) senior staff of Nasarawa State Board of Internal Revenue Service. The study covered the period between 2005 to 2011for Pre ICT era and the period of 2012 to 2018 for Post ICT era. The sample size used for the study was the same as the population of the study. The study utilized both primary and secondary data. The study used questionnaire to obtained primary data while secondary data was obtained from Nasarawa State Board of Internal Revenue Service statistical unit. The reliability of the instrument used was accessed using Cronbach alpha. The data were analysed using descriptive statistical tools of frequency, table and percentage, while inferential statistical tool of ordinary least squares regression analysis and T –test were used to test the hypothesis raised for the study. The study found that information and communication technology (ICT) has a positive and significant impact on operational efficiency, performance, quality service delivery and revenue collection of Nasarawa State Board of Internal Revenue Service (NSBIRS). The study also found that there is positive and significant difference between revenue collection in pre ICT adoption and post ICT adoption era of NSBIRS. Based on the findings, the study conclude that the performance of Nasarawa State Board of Internal Revenue Service is as a result of ICT adoption in the sector. The study thus recommended that Nasarawa State Board of Internal Revenue Service (NSBIRS) should maintain the adoption or use of ICT in order to keep improving their operational efficiency, performance, quality service delivery and revenue collection in the state
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    IMPACT OF NATIONAL HOUSING FUND CONTRIBUTION AND MORTGAGE FINANCING OF HOUSING DELIVERY ON STAFF OF THE FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC, NASARAWA NIGERIA
    (Department of Entrepreneurship Studies, Nasarawa State University, Keffi., 2020-05-24) Paul, Vincent; Abubakar, Lamino Hauwa; Dogara, Nasiru Danladi; Andah, Angbazo Ruth; Obere, Yahaya Muhammad
    This study examined the impact of National Housing Fund contribution and mortgage financing of housing delivery on staff of the Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa Nigeria. The main objective of the study was to determine the contribution of National Housing Fund (NHF) scheme on housing delivery in Nigeria with specific focus on houses improvement for the employees of Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa, Nigeria and Ex-post facto research design was employed as it is due to the nature of the study which is time series data while the population consists of the contribution of NHF for Nine (9) years i.e. between the periods of 2010 to 2018 to the staff of Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa. The result of the study shows that increase in national housing fund contribution will increase mortgage finance in federal polytechnic Nasarawa because there is positive significant effect between the variables. From the findings, the study concludes that the contributions of National Housing Fund through primary Mortgage institutions to housing financing in Nigeria is faced with certain challenging factors, and problems and there is need to proffer possible solutions in-order to boost the flow of funds into the housing sector. Based on the findings, the study recommended that the financing of national housing programmes should be viewed primarily as a national responsibility of the government. The private sector should be encouraged also to provide the bulk of actual investment funds for housing to middle income and upper income groups of the society. For the low-income group, however, continued public support, individual initiative through entrepreneurial spirit and labour movement will be required for housing and movement involvement will also be required for housing and community development. Keywords: Appraisal, Entrepreneurship Development, Contribution, Housing Delivery, National Housing Fund.
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    INFLUENCE OF EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT ON PERSONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF PRE-RETIREMENT OF vSECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN FCT ABUJA, NIGERIA
    (Department of Educational Foundations, Nasarawa State University, Keffi., 2021-04-03) Abubakar, L.H.; Allahnana, Kwanza Maikudi; Dogara, Nasiru Danladi; Okwori, O.; Paul, Vincent
    educational attainment on personal financial management of pre-retirement of secondary> school teachers * in Federal Capital Territory Abuja, Nigeria. Three research questions and their corresponding hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The study used descriptive survey research design. The population was 5,914 teachers in 148 senior secondary schools. Multistage stratified random sampling technique was used to sample 367 secondary teachers. Educational Attainment and Personal Financial Management Questionnaire (EAPFM) was developed by the researchers for data collection. EAPFM was validated by experts which yielded 0.087 validity index and Cronbach Alpha was used to determine the reliability of the internal consistency of the instrument which gave 0.085 reliability index. The data collected for this study were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while Chisquare (X) was used to test hypotheses at the 0.05 level of significance. vFindings of the study revealed that there was significant influence of educational attainment on preretired secondary school teachers; there was no significant influence educational attainment on personal financial management of pre-retirement secondary school teachers and there was significant influence of educational attainment on entrepreneurship skills acquisition of pre-retirement secondaiy school teachers in FCT, Abuja. It was recommended that pre-retirement counselling programme should be given to teacher retirees in various aspects of retirement adjustment to enable them cope with the exigencies of retirement.