Corporate governance describes the expectations of stakeholders on how corporations are governed. These expectations or perceptions keep changing; and because they keep changing, the managers of corporations and indeed all stakeholders need to keep pace with these expectations. In this paper,...

Recently the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) issued a policy making it mandatory for the CEO of Banks operating in Nigeria to have a maximum fixed tenure of ten years (i.e five years in the first instance which can only be renewed once). The policy became effective retroactively, hence bank CEOs...

The contribution of good governance practices in ensuring that goals and objectives of the company as well as those of its stakeholders are realized in a sustainable manner will always be in the front burner. In this study, the author articulates the governance practices of Top Bank Plc. (one of...

The problem of distress or outright bank failure has always featured in the Nigerian banking industry. However, never in history has the degree and scope of the distress been as high as witnessed in the mid 90's.The present global financial crisis seems to be an off-shoot of what happened in the...

In Sub-Saharan Africa, and indeed in most emerging economies, national governments have in one way or the other (in varying degrees) intervened in the running of corporations.These interventions (usually referred to as reforms) have been eliciting discourses on whether Governments should show...