A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF FRAUD IN NIGERIA FINANCIAL INSTITUTION

This project is designed to critically analyze the incidence of fraud in the Nigeria financial institutions with reference to the banking industry. Fraud in both private and public sector of Nigeria economy is an age long phenomenon that has for a long time being threatening the growth and development of the Nigeria nation state it has defiled the very professional expertise know how due to its continuous increase. The effort of fraud on the Nigeria financial regarded as the life wire of the nations economy is to say the least and devastating. Fraud cuts across the length and breath of the Nigeria financial institutions and has resulted in reducing many well established firms to mere existing level. The researcher also comment on their chapters. Chapter one involve problems of the study, objective, significance, scope and definition of terms while chapter two involves literature review. Theory of fraud, types fraud, causes of fraud etc. and chapter three contain summary of finding, discuses finding, conclusion and recommendation and the final one is bibliography.