Dr. Murat AKYUZ

  SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTOR AND PERFORMANCE OF SMES IN ABUJA, FCT, NIGERIA AKYÜZ, MURAT, PhD AHMED IBRAHIM ABDULLAHI, PhD OPUSUNJU MICHAEL ISAAC, PhD   The study examined socio economic factors and performance of SMEs in Abuja, Nigeria. The study adopted survey research design. The population of the study consists of 5690 small and medium scale enterprises in Abuja. The study used Taro Yamane formula to derived the sample size of 374 SMEs. The study used sample random sampling method to select 374 owners or owner managers of SMEs in Abuja. The method of data collection used was questionnaire which was administered to the respondents. The statistical tool adopted was regression. The findings revealed that there is negative and significant effect of socio economic factor on the performance of SMEs in Abuja. The study recommended that Government of Nigeria should continue to make policy to ensure SMEs owners to invest their capital in Abuja by reducing interest rate and stabili...

 EFFECT OF ELECTRONIC MARKETING ON THE PERFORMANCE OF SMES IN KARU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, NASARAWA STATE OF NIGERIA   AKYÜZ, MURAT, PhD OPUSUNJU MICHAEL ISAAC, PhD AHMED IBRAHIM ABDULLAHI, PhD   ABSTRACT The study examined the effect of electronic marketing on the performance of SMEs in Karu Local Government Area, Nasarawa State of Nigeria. The study adopted survey research design. The population of the study consists of 533737 small and medium scale enterprises in Karu Local Government Area, Nasarawa State of Nigeria. The study used Taro Yamane formula to determine the sample size of 400 small and medium scale enterprises in Karu Local Government Area, Nasarawa State of Nigeria. The study used simple random sampling method to select 400 owners or owner managers of small and medium scale enterprises in Karu Local Government Area, Nasarawa State of Nigeria. The method of data collection used was questionnaire which was administered to the respondents. The statistical tool ...

Burhanuddin Namık’ın Edebi Kişiliği Araştırmaları ve Eserleri Burhanuddin Nameq and His Literary Personality Researches and Works   Doç.Dr. Murat AKYUZ M. Rahim İBRAHİM Vahdatullah DARKHANİ   Özet Burhanuddin Namık, Afganistan Özbeklerinin değeri bilinmeyen büyük bir şairi ve yazarından birisidir. Şairliği, akademisyen kişiliği ve tercüme ettiği birbirinden değerli eserleri ile Burhanuddin Namık’ın Darice ve Özbekçe klasik tarzda şiirler yazan nadir insanlardan birisidir. Aynı zamanda tarihçi ve iyi bir hiciv şairi olan Burhanuddin Namık maalesef yaşadığı coğrafya sebebi ile gerektiği gibi bilinmemektedir. Bu çalışmamızda Burhanuddin Namık’ın kısaca hayat hikayesine kısaca yer verildikten sonra eserleri tanıtılmış ve şiirlerinden örnek alıntılar yapılarak, O’nun Türkiye’deki akademik çevrelerce daha iyi tanınması amaçlanmıştır. Anahtar Kelimeler: Burhanuddin Namık, Afganistan Özbek Edebiyatı, Özbek Edebiyatı, Dari ve Fars Edebiyatı   Abstract Burhanuddin Nameq is one of t...

  Infrastructural and Performance of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, Nigeria   Murat AKYUZ & Michael Isaac OPUSUNJU Abstract This study examined the effect of infrastructure on the performance of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in the federal capital territory (FCT), Abuja, Nigeria. The study adopted a survey research design. The population is 5690 SMEs in Abuja and the sample size is 374 SMEs in Abuja using sample random sampling method to select owners or owner-managers. The study used a questionnaire that was administered to the respondents. The statistical tool adopted was a regression. The findings revealed that there is a negative and significant effect of infrastructure on the performance of small and medium scale enterprises in Abuja, Nigeria. The study recommended that Government should continue to build on good infrastructures such as road accessibility and connectivity, provide adequate power supply by elimi...

 Monetary Policy Instruments and Economic Growth in Nigeria; Realities Hussaini Dakasku 1 Gylych Jelilov 1 Abdurrahman Isik 1 Murat Akyuz 2   1 Department of Economics, Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria 2 Department of Business Administration, Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria Abstract.  This study empirically explored the impact of monetary policy instruments on economic growth in Nigeria from the period 1986 to 2018. Autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL) was employed for the long run and short run dynamic relationship between each of the policy variables; Money supply, Interest rate and Exchange rate, and the target variable; Gross domestic product. The estimated long run model shows that log of money supply has a positive impact on the log of GDP, Exchange rate in its current period is inversely related to the target variable, while its one period lag positively impacts the target variable. Also, the Interest rate in its current value exerts a p...