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Background: The provision of excellent service has been a major challenge facing deposit money banks in Lagos State, Nigeria and is known to have negatively affected their operations. Executive compensation is one of the policy options being adopted by deposit money banks to motivate their executive staff to deliver superior performances and sustain productivity. The study examined the relationship between executive staff compensations and quality services being provided at selected banks in Lagos State, Nigeria. Methodology: Cross sectional survey research design was employed and four hundred and twentynine copies of the research instrument were administered to purposively selected respondents who were senior and executive staff of the selected deposit money banks. The data were processed using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences and the results showed that executive compensation packages have positive and significant effect on quality service. Results: The result of the multiple regression analysis revealed that supplemental benefits (B = 0.051, p = 0.043) have positive and significant effect on quality service at the selected deposit money banks. Further analysis revealed that there was a collective significant effect of executive compensation sub-variables on quality service at the deposit money banks (F(4,393)) = 6.831, p<0.000, R2 = 0.066). Conclusion: The study concluded that giving attractive compensation benefits to organisations executive management has positive relationship with quality service. It was emphasised that rendering quality service will go a long way to steadily increase and sustain organisational performance because of the extra motivation incentives extended to the executive management. These extra efforts would have positive impact in meeting organisational objectives. Some of the suggested recommendations includes attractive compensation and remunerations for executive staff should be instituted to ensure that this category of senior and executive staff welfare is adequately taken care of so as to enable them perform their responsibilities of meeting the corporate objectives of the organisation without distractions.

The study examined rainfall variability pattern and its implication on groundwater recharge in Obudu. Data on rainfall was obtained from the Nigerian Meteorological Agency office Obudu Dam, while Chaturvedi Empirical Method was employed to generate data on groundwater recharge. Results from the analysis revealed that rainfall correlated positively with groundwater recharge (r=0.90; p>0.05). The long term means from 1982-2012 for the region was 2138.0mm. Rainfall of 2001 recorded the highest negative departure of 41.1 per cent below the mean (below normal), and in 2012, it recorded the highest positive departure of 56.1 per cent above normal. The result revealed that rainfall events below the long-term mean would result in low recharge which could pose serious challenges to water resources management. The study recommended the need to create an effective rainwater capture and storage system to reduce water scarcity problem during period of shortage.