Effective supervision of financial institutions is premised on existence of sound corporate governance. Corporate governance refers to the extent to which companies are run in an open and honest manner. Despite the relative stability experienced by financial institutions post-consolidated era, the health of financial institutions in Nigeria today appears to have worsen due to the weak corporate governance. It is as a result of this, the study examine the effect of corporate governance on financial performance of deposit money banks in Nigeria. This study obtained secondary data from the annual report of deposit money banks quoted on the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE) spanning from 2011 to 2018 with the use of purposive sampling technique. Panel regression technique was adopted to analyse data collected. The result showed that corporate governance has significant effects on financial performance of deposit money banks in Nigeria as indicated by the p-value of Wald x2 of (0.0000) with coefficient (10.92) at 5% significance level. When individual element of corporate governance is considered, CEO duality has no significance effect on ROA with coefficient 2.1903 and p-value 0.943 while management equity holding has significant effect on ROA as indicated by p-value of 0.0000 and coefficient 10.958 at 5% significant level. The study then concluded that corporate governance has significant effect on financial performance of selected banks in Nigeria. Therefore the study recommends that CEO duality should be discourage in the deposit money banks in Nigeria and mandates a three years cooling off period where this is the case. This will assist to minimize potential conflicts of interests.

This study was designed to find the nexus between corporate governance and the concern of Nigeria DMBs with the specific role of audit committee financial expertise. Corporate governance is being used by stakeholders to determine the perpetual succession of business organization. This is prevalent in the DMBs and it has led to the expansion in the activities of DMBs as well as dynamic relationships between the management of DMBs and their owners. In lieu of this, this study sought to investigate this issue in the context of Nigeria. The research approach adopted for this study was quantitative. In addition, purposive sampling technique was adopted to select 8 DMBs listed from the sample frame obtained from NSE for the period 2014 - 2021. Using pooled OLS, the study revealed that ACFE has significant impact on DLLP as indicated by coefficient 98.843 with a p-value of 0.005, management equity holding has no significant impact on DLLP with coefficient 14.719 & p-value of 0.082 at 5% level of significance. Therefore, the study recommends that DMBs should increase the proportion of audit financial expertise with accounting background in the committee in order to enhance prudence and accountability. By this, it will boost the investors’ confidence as well as enhance their reputation and ensure their long-term prosperity.

Purpose: The study examines the compliance level with IFRS 7 by deposit money banks in Nigeria for the period between 2017-2020. Design/Methodology/Approach: The study adopts an un-weighted disclosure index method to test the two hypotheses and using Qualitative Grading System (QGS) to rank the level of compliance with the aid of explorative research design. Findings: The study found that in average, the over-all compliance by DMBs at commencement year stood at 51.04% and this implies that as at the commencement year DMBs weakly complied with the requirements of IFRS 7. Implications/Originality/Value: The study concluded that though DMBs in Nigeria do not totally comply with the provisions of IFRS 7 throughout the study period yet, there have been significant improvements in the level of compliance with the standard disclosure in the annual reports of DMBs in Nigeria. It’s therefore recommending that banks should strive to ensure full compliance with the standards as this will add more confidence in the economy. This must be done with the enforcement of regulatory bodies. The FRCN should intensify its mandate to ensure banks strictly comply with the provisions of IFRS.