The overall objective of this study is to examine the impact of mergers and acquisitions on the financialudperformance of some selected deposit money banks in Nigerian from 2002 to 2008. This paper used Returns onudAsset (ROA) and Return on Equity (ROE) of the selected banks to measure the financial performance of the banksudbefore and after consolidation. Four Nigerian banks were selected using convenience and judgmental samplingudtechniques. The study utilized secondary data retrieved from the annual reports and accounts of the studied banks.udData for the study were analyzed using T-test statistics and it was revealed that bank witnessed improved and robustudfinancial performance owing to merger and acquisition leading to more financial efficiency in the Nigerian banks.udThe paper recommends that banks should be more aggressive in financial products marketing to increase financialudperformance in order to reap the benefit of post mergers and acquisition bid in the Nigerian banking sector.
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