TABLE OF CONTENT

TABLE OF CONTENT

Title page        -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           --          -           i

Declaration      -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           ii

Approval page             -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           iii

Dedication      -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           iv

Acknowledgement      -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           v

Table of content          -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           vi

Abstract -        -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           viii

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION

1.1       Background to the Study       -           -           -           -           -           -           -           1

1.2       Statement of Research Problem          -           -           -           -           -           -           4

1.3       Objectives of the Study          -           -           -           -           -           -           -           7

1.4       Research Questions     -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           8

1.5       Research Hypotheses  -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           8

1.6       Significance of the Study       -           -           -           -           -           -           -           9

1.7       Scope of the Study     -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           9

1.8.      Definition of Key Terms         -           -           -           -           -           -           -           10

CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1       Introduction    -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           11

2.2       Concept of Corporate Governance     -           -           -           -           -           -           11

2.3       Historical Overview of Corporate Governance          -           -           -           -           13

2.4       Corporate Governance and Banks      -           -           -           -           -           -           14

2.5       Elements of Corporate Governance in Banks -           -           -           -           -           18

2.6       Corporate Governance Mechanisms   -           -           -           -           -           -           24

2.7       Linkage between Corporate Governance and Firm Performance       -           -           28

2.8       Internal Corporate Governance Mechanisms and Organizational Performance-        29

2.9       Corporate Governance and the Current Crisis in the Nigerian Banking Sector-        37

2.10     The Current Global Financial Crisis    -           -           -           -           -           -           39

2.11     Prior Studies on Specific Corporate Governance Practices and Firm Performance   41

2.12     The Perspective of Banking Sector Reforms in Nigeria         -           -           -           45

2.13     State of Corporate Governance in Nigeria Banks      -           -           -           -           47

2.14     The Imperatives of Good Corporate Governance in a Consolidated Nigeria Banking System         -           -            -           -           -           -           -           -           --          -           48

2.15     Theoretical Framework for Corporate Governance    -           -           -           -           51

2.16     Summary         -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           55

 

 

CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.1       Introduction    -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           57

3.2       Research Design         -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           57

3.3       Population of the Study          -           -           -           -           -           -           -           57

3.4       Methods and Sources of Data            -           -           -           -           -           -           -           58

3.5       Research Instruments  -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           58

3.6       Method of Data Analysis       -           -           -           -           -           -           -           58

CHAPTER FOUR: DATA PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION

4.1       Introduction    -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           63

4.2       Data Presentation and Analysis          -           -           -           -           -           -           63

4.3       Hypotheses Testing     -           -           -           --          -           -           -           -           77

4.4       Summary of Findings -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           80

CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

5.1       Summary         -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           88

5.2       Conclusion      -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           89

5.3       Limitation of the Study          -           -           -           -           -           -           -           90

5.4       Recommendations      -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -           91

5.5       Contribution to Knowledge    -           -           -           -           -           -           -           92

5.6       Suggested Areas for Further Studies  -           -           -           -           -           -           92

            References      -           -           -           -           --          -           --          -           -           94

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ABSTRACT

There is the need for countries to have sound resilient banking system with good corporate governance, which will strengthen the institution to survive in an increasingly open environment. This was to make Nigerian banks more competitive and able to operate in the global market. Despite all its attempts, the central bank of Nigeria disclosed that after the consolidation in 2016, 741 cases of attempted fraud and forgery involving 5.4 billion was reported. In the light of the above, this research examined the relationship that exist between government mechanisms and financial performance in the Nigerian consolidated banks. And also to find out if there is any significant relationship between the level of corporate governance disclosure index among Nigerian banks and their performance. The person correlation and the regression analysis were used to find out whether there is relationship between the corporate governance variable’s and the firm’s performance. In examining the level of corporate governance disclosure of the sampled banks, a disclosure index was developed guided by the CBN code of governance and also on the basis of the papers prepared by the UN secretariat for the nineteenth session of ISAR (international Standard of Accounting and Reporting). The study therefore observed that a negative but significant relationship exist between board size, board composition and the financial performance of these banks, while a positive and significant relationship was also noticed between directors’ equity interests, level of governance disclosure and performance. Furthermore the t-test result indicated that while a significant difference was observed in the profitability of the healthy banks and rescued banks, no difference was seen in the profitability of banks with foreign directors and that of banks without foreign directors. The study therefore concludes that there is no uniformity in the disclosure of corporate governance practices by banks. Likewise, the banks do not disclose in general how their debt are performing by study suggested that eff

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