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Income Diversification, ESG Practices and Financial Sustainability of Listed Non-Financial Firms in Nigeria
(Atlantis Highlights in Economics, Business and Management, 2025-05-05) Lukman Adebayo-Oke Abdulrauf, PhD; Yusuf Olamilekan Quadrim PhD; Sheriff Akanji Ibrahim, PhD
Meeting the current financial needs and ensuring resource availability for future operations is vital for firms to maximize their shareholders wealth and improve overall health of the economy. However, ineffective allocation of resources to new ventures and ESG compliance issues have compacted the overall performance thereby undermining the listed non-financial firms’ financial sustainability. Consequently, this study investigates the impact of income diversification and ESG practices on the financial sustainability of the firm. Longitudinal research design was used and 84 out of the 104 listed non-financial firms were sampled using multi-stage sampling technique. Data obtained from the annual reports of the sampled firms as well as the ESG-CSR Hub were analyzed using panel data regression (GLS) technique and the findings revealed that income diversification and ESG practices have impact on the financial sustainability of the listed non-financial firms in Nigeria. The study therefore recommends that firms should identify more complementary revenue sources especially in the high-growth sectors in order to minimize investment and operational risk. Also, firms should invest in the energy-efficient technologies and waste management practices while implementing ESG frameworks that will position them competitively in a dynamic environment.
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Formal Financing, Country Risks and Livestock Output in Nigeria
(Bayero Journal of Management Science, 2024-12-10) Abdulrauf Lukman Adebayo-Oke PhD, Ibrahim Sheriff Akanji, SafuraSikiru Abdullahi & Jimoh Ismail
Livestock, which accounts for 30% of employment among Nigeria's rural population, is essential to the country's local economy and efforts to reduce poverty. The growth of the livestock subsector is hindered, nevertheless, by a range of concerns, such as political, economic, and financial uncertainty, as well as insufficient government budget allocation. In light of this, the purpose of this study is to examine how formal funding and national hazards affect Nigeria's livestock production. Secondary data for the years 1995 2021 were gathered from the International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Using E-view 9, the study used both descriptive and inferential statistics. Before and after the given model was estimated using Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL), a variety of diagnostic tests were performed. The agricultural guarantee credit scheme funds (AGC) are statistically significant at the 5% level of significance, according to the short term ARDL model. Other variables, such as commercial bank credits (CBC), budgetary allocation to agriculture (BAA), and exchange rate control variable (EXR), are not statistically significant in the short run. The control variable of prime lending rate (PLR, 0.0653) is statistically significant at 5% level of significance. Among other things, the study suggests that banks create customized credit solutions that address the particular requirements of cattle farmers, offer flexible periods for repayment, and form alliances with input suppliers and agriculture specialists.
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Pragmatic acts and lexico-semantic variations of vulgar expressions in selected Nigerian Hip Hop Songs
(2018) Ibrahim Omolabi
Hip hop music is becoming very prominent because it is a popular youth culture and able to generate diverse interpretations. Thus, the study examines the various pragmatic acts performed in the selected hip hop songs in order to bring to the fore the covert meanings in it. The study is anchored on Mey (2001) aspects of pragmatic acts and Adegbija’s (1989) classification of Lexico Semantic Variation as the theoretical appurtenance underpinning the study. A total of three (3) hip hop songs were purposively selected and analysed from the points of Pragmatic acts theory and Lexico Semantic Variations. The study reveals that artistes employ assertive practs of informing, requesting, persuading, inviting etc. to connote vulgar expressions by using existing lexical forms to achieve intended meaning. The study found that the artistes, in rendering the songs, adhere to socio cultural value of the Nigerian society which forbids public discussion of sex and issues pertaining to it, and therefore often use metaphors and euphemisms to connote sexual expressions. It was also found that semantic-shift is the major type of lexico-semantic variation used by the artistes in the selected songs. This is because artistes use already existing lexical terms to refer to the sexual organs and experiences based on partial likeness or similarity in the forms of the entities compared. The study concludes that Nigerian hip-hop artistes are mindful of the Nigerian socio-cultural norms and values as regarding the topic of sex, and that Nigerian society influences their choice of expressions and places constraints on their use of language in discussing issues pertaining to sex.