The hazardous effects of companies’ activities have sparked the increasing need from stakeholders for transparent and trustworthy report on sustainability issues. There is still evidence of low report on sustainability performance in the listed non-financial firms in Nigeria which has attributed to corporate governance mechanism issues. Therefore, this study examines the effect of board characteristics on sustainability reporting of listed non-financial firms in Nigeria from 2010 to 2018. Sustainability reporting was measured using content analyses on corporate annual report on sustainability used Global Reporting Initiatives (G4) guidelines. The population of the study consist of 47 non-financial firms from Consumer goods, Industrial and Oil and Gas sectors. The study used a sample of 30 firms and secondary data which was employed, sourced from the audited annual report of the sampled firms was employed. Robust Fixed effect regression was used for the analysis and the study found among others that board gender has positive and significant effect on sustainability reporting of listed non-financial firms in Nigeria. The study concludes that women directors enhance the level of reporting on sustainability reporting of listed non-financial firms in Nigeria. The study recommendation among others that board of directors should ensure diversity gender by appointing more women directors on the board as the mean also reveal that their presence is low.
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Board Characteristics, Sustainability Reporting, Non-financial Firms
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