Assessment Of Social Risk In Nigeria; The Implications On Foreign Direct Investment

ABSTRACT

The essence of this study was to assess the social risk in Nigeria; and the implications on FDI. The researcher was motivated to choose this topic because; the level of social risk in Nigeria was becoming too alarming and uncurbed. Hence, the need to x-ray the implications on Nigeria investment environment, which if checked, will help restore foreign investors' confidence and aid in resuscitating the dwindling economy. Questionnaires were distributed as a source of primary data and secondary data to compliment in actualizing the objectives. In analyzing the data, research - questions and testing of hypothesis, simple descriptive statistics, simple statistics (Bar chart) and multiple regression analysis was employed. Hence the following were the findings; south south geo-political zone is mostly at risk or risk endemic, corruption and poor infrastructure was found to be the major problem confronting FDl. Kidnapping mostly influenced FDl, which were prevalent in - south south and southeast zone, there is a significant positive relationship between FIJI in flow and output in the economy. Based on the findings some of the recommendations made were, government should empower EFCC more in their war against corruption, embark on capita projects to improve infrastructure, intensify efforts by formulating more policies that will not be inimical to FIJI and most importantly improve the level of security in the country as this will help reduce social risk.