ABSTRACT
The study investigated the effect of corporate governance on
performance of insurance companies in Nigeria with specific objectives to
ascertain the effect of corporate governance on profit after tax of insurance
companies in Nigeria, It collected secondary data from various annual report of
the sampled insurance companies in Nigeria. The study adopted ex post facto
research design and extracted board size, board independence, number of female
board members, Return on Asset, Return on Equity and Profit after tax. The
study employed the ordinary least squared based multiple regression method of
data estimation and found that there has been strong evidence from the
hypotheses tested that corporate governance proxies jointly have significant
effect on return on assets, profit after tax and return on equity of the firms.
The study therefore concludes that corporate governance has significant effect
on performance of insurance companies in Nigeria. Based on the findings of the
study, the researcher recommended that Insurance companies should ensure that
there is cooperation among board members, and that they should ensure that
board are adequately constituted so as to influence performance in a way that
it would positively affect return on assets.
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