Browsing by Author "Sa'adu Yahaya"

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    Achieving Food Security in Nigeria: Challenges and Way Forward
    (Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, Umar Musa Ya'ardua University, Katsina, 2020) Idris Ibrahim; Abdulrauf Abdullahi; Sanni Kasimu; Umar Abubakar Yaru; Sa'adu Yahaya
    This paper examined the challenges and ways of achieving food security in Nigeria while relying on secondary data and descriptive statistics as its methodology. The paper noted that, achieving food security has attracted national and international attention. In Nigeria, several agricultural policies and programmes have been formulated to curtail food security challenges. Despite these efforts, Nigeria is far from achieving the goal of food security owing to challenges arising from insecurity, poverty, corruption, population growth and national policies that do not promote infrastructural development, adequate funding and equal access to food for all. As such the study relying on the Public-Private Partnership theory concluded that food security can be achieved if the efforts of Government and other stakeholders such as the private sector to combat food insecurity will not only make food available but also ensure that people can consistently afford to make it ready for consumption, hence, ensuring that all the four components viz.; availability, accessibility, utilization and stability are present. The paper therefore, recommended the need for agricultural policies that will provide for a system of mechanized farming, regulate the use of chemical to prevent soil degradation, tackle insecurity which causes displacement of farmers and public-private partnership in terms of increased private sector investment in Agric sector; these without doubt will help to address the challenges confronting the agricultural sector in delivering the gains of food security in Nigeria.
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    Effect of Taxable Capacity on the Internally Generated Revenue of Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State
    (Department of Public Administration, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida University, Lapai, 2019) Sa'adu Yahaya; Sanni Kazeem; Umar Abubakar Yaru
    The idea behind the creation of local governments in Nigeria is primarily, to provide essential public goods and services which have positive impact and directly affect the day-to-day lives of their inhabitants. To realise these primary responsibilities, they need viable sources of revenue and capacity to collect and administer such revenue. The capacity of any local government to enormously yield its internal revenue depends on among other things, on its taxable capacity. The problem has been that of weak tax structure, weak entrepreneurial initiative, inadequate provision of essential public goods and services, and the like. These have greatly affected their viability. It is on this note that this study was carried out to examine the effect of taxable capacity on Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of Kagarko local government area of Kaduna state. Data was gathered from both primary and secondary sources such as the Local Government financial memoranda become. Regression analysis was used to measure the level of effect taxable capacity on the IGR and the result revealed that taxable capacity has significant effect on the IGR of the local government. The paper therefore, recommends that for substantial yield of IGR there should be organised collection of information (database) of the revenue payers through using an electronic device and their standard of living should improve.
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    Taxable Capacity: A Means for Internally Generated Revenue in Kaduna North Local Government Area of Kaduna State
    (Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria, 2019-12) Sa'adu Yahaya; Sani Kazeem; Umar Abubakar Yaru; Idris Ibrahim; Sanni Barakat
    Local governments in Nigeria come into existence solely to promote the standard of living of their populaces. To actualise this objective the local governments, need sound sources of revenue and capacity to collect such revenue for appropriate usage. The potency of any local government to generate colossal internal revenue depends, among other things, on the taxable capacity. It is in line with the above that this study was carried out to examine the effect of taxable capacity on internally generated revenue (IGR) in Kaduna North local government area of Kaduna state. Data was gathered from both primary and secondary sources. Regression analysis was used to measure the level of effect of taxable capacity on the IGR with the aid of SPSS version 23 and the result revealed that taxable capacity has significant effect on the IGR of the local government (statistically significant at 99%). The paper therefore, recommends that for substantial yield of IGR, there should be organised collection of information (databank) of the revenue payers through using an electronic device and the standard of living of the populace should be enhanced.