TY  - JOUR
AV  - none
PB  - American Scientific Publishers
SP  - 1460
TI  - Awareness level of north-west zone of Nigeria retail customers towards Islamic banking
IS  - 5
N2  - Nigeria is a country with a large population of Muslims, where Islamic banking is at infancy stage with just one newly introduced Islamic Bank, that is, Jaiz Bank Plc. However, given the current extensive program of financial reforms in Nigeria and the rapid growth of Islamic banking in comparable economics, there is growing pressure for a system of Islamic banking to be developed. There is then a pressing need for research into the prospects of Islamic banking from a customer perspective in Nigeria through creating awareness. The main objective of this study is to assess people of North-western Nigeriansâ?? level of awareness toward Islamic banking that is from the retail customerâ??s perspective. Survey research design was conducted on the retail customersâ?? level of awareness toward Islamic banking in order to achieve this objective. Descriptive statistics, Independent sample t-test and one way ANOVA was used to analyze the data. The findings of this study will be of key importance to future researchers in the field of Islamic banking, financial industry and financial policy formations in Nigeria. © 2015 American Scientific Publishers. All rights reserved.
SN  - 19366612
EP  - 1463
ID  - scholars6242
JF  - Advanced Science Letters
VL  - 21
Y1  - 2015///
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84946041530&doi=10.1166%2fasl.2015.6070&partnerID=40&md5=4a97a87221e148ef43da56524ba7cdc3
N1  - cited By 0
A1  - Usman Dalhatu, D.B.
A1  - Abdullah, A.
A1  - Ibrahim, Y.M.
A1  - Abideen, A.A.
ER  -