The benefits of social media networking platforms on students’ academic performance in contemporary times cannot be, overemphasized. These social networking platforms crafts out opportunities for information sharing andalso danger for students in diverse fields. The danger of social networking addiction on students’ academic performance, health, and social well-being triggered this study.400 students enrolled in this cross-sectional study, through stratified random sampling technique. Using the online survey of Google Form for data collection. The Ordinary Least Square and Pearson’s correlation coefficient was used to quantify and examine the impact. Findingsrevealed that social networking impact significantly on students’ academic performance, and was more prevalent among undergraduate students (P = 0.000). Pearson’s correlation coefficient revealed a significant relationship between social networking addiction, academic performance, health and social well-being of students (p=0.001). The misapplication of social media can become addictive among users and students.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is proposed to diminish the negative effect of social network addiction on students and other co-users.

Inflation is a continuous macroeconomic concern that has dominated thoughts at major economic fora due to its pervasive effect on the economy. The quantity theory of money isolates money supply as the major cause of inflation. The economic reality in Nigeria contravenes the theory. The study examines other determinants of inflation in Nigeria using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) method on quarterly data from January 1999- December 2018. Findings show that poor infrastructural development, exchange rate, political instability, corruption, and double taxation significantly stimulate inflation rather than just money supply. The results show a causal relationship between other determining factors and inflation. The ARDL result shows a significant long-short run relationship. The study recommends that non-monetary factors of instigating inflation should be controlled and security expenditure should be review along with-related mechanisms to achieve low inflation at single digits at most and economic growth and development. Keywords: inflation rate, money supply, Nigeria, economic indicators, ARDL Error Correction Model

The magnitudes of the losses incur and the operational effects on the financial institution translate to a significant peril to depositors and investors' confidence in the operational activites of the industy. Hence, financial negligence in the banking industry has been established over the time as the breeding ground for fraud both within and outside the industry embracing institutional (insider abuse) and environmental factors. Zuraidah, Mohd Nor and Yusarina [3] holds the view, the fundamental intent of fraudsters is that of monetary gains which therefore placed the banking sector at the mercy of fraudulent individuals within and outside the system.The American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) pigeonholed financial fraud as a tier one tactical priority (U.S. Department of Justice Report, 2001) [3]. The decreasing cases of fraud and the increasing amount loss propels the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), report in 2014, establishing that the financial sector is more vulnerable to fraud owing to flaw in the internal control system even in the face of advanced technology employed to checkmate fraud within the external environment. Nevertheless, Zuraidah et al.

Financial firms' services are considered germane to an economy's expansion universally. 2015-2016 economic and financial in Nigeria can be accredited to the hollowness of the financial firm contracting the economy by 2.06%, 63.7% market capitalization, and 67.2% in all share indexes losses. Prior empirical techniques focus primarily on finance-growth linear nexus. Which begs the question is the reported linear nexus a function of the linear assumption test power or earth evidence? The baseline ARDL and NARDL techniques are used in this research. To observe if there is a possibility of a non-linear association, for structural breaks, the Zivot and Andrews tests were used, as well as Granger causality to test for causality. From 1999Q1-2019Q4, quarterly data from the three arms of financial firms "insurance, banking, and stock market" were used. Findings revealed that economic growth adjusts non-linearly at a faster pace. A variety of macro-non-macroeconomic and financial factors can be implicated in the non-linear adjustment. A bi-directional link between the variables was revealed by causal nexus.

Purpose of study: This study examines security expenditure as an economically contributive or a non-contributive expenditure on human capital development and economic growth in Nigeria. Methodology: Adopting the ARDL bounds test and Error Correction Model (ECM) on quarterly time-series data from January 2010-December 2018. Result: The findings and results indicate that security expenditure is economically a contributive expenditure. In the long-run a positive and significant impact on economic growth and human capital development, in the shot-run a negative relationship. The ECM model conveyed the speed of convergence from disequilibrium in the short-run back to long-run equilibrium by 86% quarterly. Implication/Application: The finding and results have critical implications for the government and policymakers, protection of life, properties, economic, and business assets positively stimulate economic growth. A unit increase in government expenditure on human capital development decreases insecurity and increase economic growth. Novelty/Originality of this study: Previous studies conducted globally and in Nigeria reported diverse results on the co-integrating relationship between security expenditure and economic growth, using diverse variables and annualized time series data predominantly. This study differs from the previous studies to adopt quarterly time-series data, the ARDL, and the ECM models as the major techniques of analysis along with a battery of pre-test and diagnostic tests.