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The study examines the impact of information and communication technology on the performance of deposit money banks in Nigeria between the periods 2006 to 2015. The log-linear regression model was used to test the impact of various forms of information and communication technology on the banks return on equity (ROE), the computation of the result was done using the econometric computer software package, e-view version 8.0. The result shows that the adoption of various forms of information and communication technology has greatly influenced the quality of banking operations, performance and has specifically increased banks return on equity. Information and communication technology usage can sustain returns on equity of deposit money banks in the long run. The study recommends that investment in information and communication technology should form an important component in the overall strategy of banking operation, as these will make Nigerian banks to be more efficient, profitable, and competitive.Contribution/Originality: This study contributes to the existing literature that investigated the use of ICT in Nigeria banks'. Currently there is the paucity of studies in Nigeria that examines the interbank transactions with the aid of ICT. This study contributes an important dimension in the search for better performance of Nigeria banks.

Purpose: This study examined job crafting (JC) and the role it could play in reducing brain drain in universities in Nigeria. Research Methodology: -it adopted a survey research design, with its population consisting of 8051 academic staff of six selected universities in the Southeast. A sample size of 367 was determined using Krejcie and Morgan’s (1970) formula. The source of data collection was a structured questionnaire. A combination of descriptive and inferential statistics was used for data analysis. Results–among others, the result revealed that there are ways academics can craft their jobs in universities in Nigeria and that there is a significant mean difference among the various dimensions of job crafting activities carried out by academics. Limitations: The study looked at a particular section of Nigeria, thereby, limiting the inference power of the findings. Contributions: None of the previous studies seem to have focused solely on how job crafting is done and which one is more prominent among lecturers in Nigeria. Similarly, none also appear to have looked at job crafting and how it can be used to reduce brain drain in Nigerian Universities.

This study is aimed at exploring the rationale behind academic mentor’s success, as mentoring is a developmental process involving capacity-building, knowledge transfer and employee retention in organizations. This paper is a conceptual study conducted with an extensive review of relevant literature on mentoring. The reviewed literature centres on meaning, forms and types of mentoring, qualities of a good mentor, stages and benefits of mentoring, challenges of mentoring, mentoring and academic excellence. This study was anchored on the descriptive mentoring theory by Kram (1985). The study found that regardless of how well a mentor and mentee fit together, either in form or in a positive way, the relationship should be professionally structured as well as considered and respected by both parties. The study also concludes that most successful mentorship usually evolve into friendship with both partners learning and providing support for each other. This paper contributes in the existing literature by examining the rationale for successful mentorship and ways to overcoming mentors challenges. No previous research has illustrated the ways mentorship could lead to academic excellence in Nigerian tertiary institution.

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of knowledge management on firm’s performance in selected manufacturing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Southeast Nigeria. Design/Methodology/Approach: The data is gathered from different manufacturing SMEs in Southeast Nigeria for this study. The sample size was 196 gathered from the population size of 800 selected manufacturing SMEs. The convenience sampling is used for the study. Descriptive statistics (frequency tables and percentages) was adopted for data presentation, however, Pearson correlation co-efficient along with regression analysis was applied for hypotheses testing. Results: The results exposed that there is an encouraging positive significant association between knowledge management along with SMEs performance. The outcome expressed that there is an encouraging significant relationship between the knowledge management dimensions (knowledge sharing, knowledge acquisition in addition to knowledge protection) and firm performance dimensions (market share, sales growth as well as customer satisfaction). Conclusion: The study concluded that SMEs which acquire new knowledge tend to satisfy their customers more than those with outdated knowledge, and those who share knowledge with employees tend to gain larger market share than those who do not share with employees. Contribution to Literature: This study contributes to the existing literature in two ways: first, this utilized the knowledge management variables which were not utilized in previous studies. Second, this study decomposed firm performance by using three different indicators.

is blessed with enormous natural resources that range from deposits of crude oil in abundant and arable land that support any form of agricultural activities, of which Nigeria is supposed to compete favorably with the super advanced countries in terms of per capita income and GDP. Unfortunately, Nigeria imports virtually everything. The situation has led many Nigerians especially youth striving to leave the country to foreign land seeking a greener pasture. All these arise due to inability of the country to manage its enormous resource as result of leadership failure to follow through with developmental goals, side-by-side with leadership's penchant for primitive accumulation (Sanusi, 2012, cited in Iyoha, Gberevbie, Iruonagbe andEgharevba, 2015).The disparity in standard of living between developed countries and Nigeria is forcing the teeming youths to seek succor in foreign land. Poverty has been the reason for rural urban migration. Poverty is a product of poor nutrition, not having access to quality education, of which education has been identified as bedrock for national development. Due to the prevalent alarming rate of poverty in Nigeria, it is assumed that good things of life are only available to some certain class of citizens.Reports had it that poverty has been on increase in Nigeria after independence in 1960, it was around just 15%, by 1980 it moved upwardly to 28.0%. The rise continued to 46.6% by 1985 despite all the intervention programmes to address poverty in the country by successive government. It dropped to 43% by 1992, though the fall was not really significant. By 1996, poverty sky rocketed to 66%. From 2004 to 2010 poverty level rose from 54.4 to 69. (NBS,2011) Nigerian human development index was only 0.504 positioning the country at 152 out 187 in 2013 (UNDP, 2014). In another view point poverty has been described as failure to attain basic necessities such as being adequately nourished, living a healthy life, possession of skills to participate in economic and social-political life, permission to take part in community activities (Odeh & Okoye, 2014).Poverty is a global phenomenon which affects almost all continents, nations and people differently, there is no nation that is absolutely free from poverty (Oloyede, 2014a) Developed countries of the world have one time or other experienced extreme poverty, they later come over it due to policies and programme meant to address poverty. The will to